The Corrupted Church: A Comment on the Pragmatism of To Set Our Hope On Christ

Ephraim Radner

A note on the Windsor Report

The Rev. Ephraim Radner

What has the Report offered as a whole?

We write to bring to the attention of the Bishops, Priest, Deacons and Lay Persons of The Episcopal Church (TEC) a matter of grave concern. It is a matter that, left unaddressed in the decision-making of General Convention, now threatens the integrity and public witness of everyone who calls him or herself an Episcopalian: is our church prepared to permit in its midst clergy and lay leaders who, however much they represent a minority opinion, are committed to a traditional reading of TEC's Prayer Book and Constitution?

Advent now shifts into the manifestation of God's good will in the Nativity feast.  So too the church takes its self-scrutiny and penitence, and turns in hope to the gift of God's own and new life among us.

The current public dispute over the canonical legality of the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops' recent vote to depose Bishops Schofield and Cox amounts at best to a severe embarrassment to the Presiding Bishop, her advisors, and the House itself;  at worst, it exposes a travesty of Christian justice and prudence.  How was it possible that the process and definition of terms demanded by the canons were not openly examined, discussed, and agreed upon prior to this vote, so as to avoid the prima facie plausible accusations now being made that appropriate consents were not in fact giv