Three symptoms of our illness

There are three symptoms of our illness in the Episcopal Church that we can’t adequately engage. I’ll name them for now. I don’t have some fix in mind.

1. We can’t talk honestly about membership decline

2. We can’t talk honestly about prayer and action, worship and service.

3. We can’t talk honestly about drawing our social ethics from the far left. I’ll add a sentence to this one – it would be far worse if we took our social ethics from the far right.

So, no grand solution. I do know that an inability to name things and explore them is a symptom of something deeper. I have enough experience with ascetical theology and the behavioral sciences to know that much.

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