The Problem With the Episcopal Church in A Nutshell

Caesar, not Christ:

Go to the national church website, and the site map doesn't even include the word "Creed" -- not Nicene, not Apostles' -- because almost nothing in the national church seems focused on internal spiritual beliefs. To quote one of the site's featured mini-essays (a highly representative example), "It's not about having answers as much as it is about engaging a story. It is about your story and how your story connects to an ancient story of desert wanderers that, in time, came to see that humanity and this energy they called God mingled and existed through Christ and thus, exists in all of humanity."

But even the Episcopal Church website's vapid pop psychology is overwhelmed by the volume of political statements and programs that make the site little distinguishable in tone or focus from that of, say, the Americans for Democratic Action. The first listed "mission" of the church is "justice and peacemaking," which has subsets that advocate "speak[ing] truth to the powerful," "social justice ministry," "criminal justice," "racism" defined not just as prejudice but only as "prejudice coupled with power," (hint: black Americans therefore can't be racist), and an "Office of Government Relations" which sees its goals as "including issues of international peace and justice, human rights, immigration, welfare, poverty, hunger, health care, violence, civil rights, the environment, racism and issues involving women and children."

Who has time to save souls when Caesar needs so much guidance?

Time and again, the denomination in which I was raised has been asked to choose between Mammon and God. Time and again, they've chosen Mammon, because Mammon's got the moolah. They are a disgrace fast approaching a joke.

God not being mocked, however, they will eventually discover precisely what their wealth and power has purchased them.