And as I say, if what you describe happens in our parish, we'll be there. But we're in the West Texas Diocese, and the predominant attitude is orthodox, with very few liberals in our parish.
Still, what you say about the revisionist control of the seminaries is disturbing, and if when our rector retires we cannot find an orthodox replacement, we're outta there.
I know that even the bishops in Texas who are not Network are sympathetic, so you are much better off than we are here in the ECUSA Diocese of Atlanta, which (given that most of the Piskies are concentrated in urban and suburban Atlanta Metro) is overwhelmingly liberal. The bishop here is utterly in cahoots with the national church leadership. He has run one of the few remaining orthodox parishes out of existence, and another is hanging by a thread. He also went after an orthodox church and took their buildings.
Ugly, ugly, ugly. I am so glad we got out before the persecutions started.
You might inquire where your pledge is going, and if any of it is being used to sue orthodox Episcopalians and take their church buildings and graveyards . . . .
I am in the process of conversion to Roman Catholicism after 40 years an Episcopalian, my last years of membership in the Diocese of NW Texas. Even though my parish left and placed themselves under an African Anglican bishop as a matter of the parish’s primarlily orthodox makeup, the resultant congrational breakup, loss of a very fine priest, and lawsuit seemed so unsettling that alternatives had to be explored. I have found that the character of my personal beliefs as an Episcopalian (a denomination that does admittedly encourage/permit/condone diversity in personal theology) were not at all dissimilar to the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. My Episcoplian friends say in reference to Roman Catholicism that “they have their problems too,” however, I try to remind them that those problems are related to the actions of individuals and not the structural or institutional chracter of the Church. I guess the long and short of it is that why would one remain an Episcopalian given the suicidal direction of this denomination, of which a longterm porn star’s inclusion is thought of as something unique and novel, if not blessed.