Is The Episcopal Church A Sect?

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[VirtueOnline] March 15, 2005--I have come to the view, after much struggle and prayer,that the decisions of the 2003 General Convention to consent to Gene Robinson's election to the episcopate and to allow dioceses to "experience and explore" liturgies for the blessing of same-sex unions, while disastrous and fundamentally mistaken, are in some way providential. By this I mean that the General Convention's decisions have forced us to do something that Episcopalians are largely unwilling to do, and at which we are not particularly competent, which is taking a serious, unsentimental and rigorously theological look at our life as a church. We have been brought to an unusual moment of theological clarity: A return to the Episcopal Church ante the 2003 General Convention would not be a return to an untroubled, undivided and unproblematic church.