My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.