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(SPECIAL TO VIRTUEONLINE) INTRODUCTION "It was a dark and stormy night." And so it is these days, for traditional and orthodox Episcopalians in North America, and in many other places, for that matter. A few years ago, I quoted from the you've-got-to-see-it-to-believe-it first scene of the 1968 English kitsch classic The Lost Continent, in which the captain on deck asks himself, "How did we get here? How did this happen to us?" We were all trying to understand, before Gene Robinson was elected bishop of New Hampshire, how our Church had arrived at this "pretty mess, this howdy-do" (Gilbert and...

"A revisionist friend told me Zahl was a 'radical,'" says Wilson Carroll, of St. Andrew's in Jackson. "I don't see how anyone could actually listen to this self-effacing, gentle man and possibly think that. It shows how far to the left the center has shifted in our church when someone like Zahl is tagged as a radical." In Session 2 of The Very Rev. Dr. Paul Zahl's presentation at the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew in Jackson Mississippi, Dr. Zahl said plainly, "Don’t trust the bishops!" He gave his description of reconciliation: A magnanimous gesture by the winners - revisionists...