Gray's article was to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the U.S. The 39 year old priest is the chaplain to Bishop of Blackburn Nicholas Reade. His musings naturally ignited controversy. Any seeming effort to mitigate the evil of the London subway bombers understandably strikes raw nerves among the British.

Maxine gave me a wonderful present last year. It was a little paperback entitled *Let's Face The Facts About Flying Saucers.* Now this title can be interpreted in exactly two ways, depending on whether you believe, well, in flying saucers. But the flag under which the Episcopal Church is now flying cannot be interpreted in two different ways. It can only be interpreted in one way. Let's face the facts.

We now have to place ourselves under a different flag.

Third, I am writing you (with copies to several other priests around the globe with whom I have served) "for the record."

I began attending an Episcopal Church in 1970 at All Saints' San Diego. In the fall of 1971, I began an M.Div. program at Seabury Western Theological Seminary under the spiritual direction of Fr. Paul Satrang. I became a Postulant of the Diocese of Los Angeles with the encouragement of Bishop Bloy.

Last night there was something else: a powerful twin beam rising from Ground Zero. Reaching higher and brighter than anything else, and merging into one column before it dissipated, it lasted about five minutes, then suddenly went dead--probably a practice run for the fifth anniversary of 9/11.