Before I attempt to answer that question, I invite you to read Network Moderator Bishop Bob Duncan's Council address very carefully. See the ACN website (http://www.acn-us.org) for the full text of his address. Yes, you will need to take some time to prayerfully think through it for Bishop Bob gives his comprehensive view of the state of the Church in this address.

I hope no one objects to my plagiarizing of Dr. Sowell's method in what follows. A culture warrior is not so much interested in birthing something original as in differentiating the terrain on which he has walked his whole life and yet still felt himself stumbling. When a light goes on, he feels as if scales have fallen from his eyes.

Moreover, it has lost its Anglican identity, even while it has failed to reach its own American culture in any significant way. The average Episcopalian, parish church and mission, bishop and priest seem to prefer to sleep at the bedside of the patient, thoughtless of the impending trauma, than to prepare for the inevitable or take swift action to avert it.

Both denominational meetings were characterized by division, polarization, and discord as conservatives and liberals attempted to discern and approve God's will on issues ranging from divestment from companies doing business with Israel to gay clergy to the doctrine of the Trinity ("Mother, Child, and Womb"?). As left and right argued their cases, the real issue emerged.