The number of actual new baptisms reported in 2001was 52,535 but by 2003 that number had dropped to 49,316 a loss of 3,219.

From 1965 to the end of 2003, the number of clergy increased from 10,309 to 17,174, an increase of 6,865 or 67 percent, an astronomical climb even as parishioners were leaving and new converts failed to materialize.

The Mexican bishop, whose own province, before he left it, was one of the most corrupt in modern ecclesiastical history with millions of ECUSA dollars disappearing with a former archbishop and bishop, now accuses unnamed persons of waging a "guerrilla warfare, fostered and nurtured by unhappy Episcopalians intent on sabotaging General Convention and destroying the polity of ECUSA."

In this book "Understanding the Windsor Report" two theologians, one conservative; the other liberal, range across the issues the Report raises. The collaborative effort of the two men: The Rev. Dr. Paul F. M. Zahl, Dean and President of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and the Rev. Ian T. Douglas Professor of World Mission and Global Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass face off over the issues the book raises.

Lawyers are part of the fabric of Episcopal Church life these days. Orthodox priests under siege by revisionist bishops have learned not to talk to their bishop, when summoned, without an attorney in tow. When you are dealing with purple bishops like Bennison or Smith or Bruno, take an attorney with you or face a bishop who may possibly lie under oath.