What Katie did next

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/2583/

[New Directions] 19 Mar 2007--No one should for a moment doubt the sincerity with which Katherine Jefferts Schori believes that she and The Episcopal Church are on the side of Jesus - or more accurately, that Jesus is on the side of The Episcopal Church and Mrs Jefferts Schori. But they are Americans; and no one should forget either, the fecundity with which that country has spawned new religions and subverted old ones.

I have, of course, no intention of comparing KJS with Joseph Smith, Ellen Harmon White or Mary Baker Eddy. She is thankfully less inventive than they were. But she is, nevertheless, the accomplished spokesperson for a New Religion.

Episcopalian Revisionism is rooted in the Enlightenment. The Declaration of Independence, with its ringing phrases ('We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness') was, after all, penned by and largely signed by Episcopalians (thirty-one out of thirty-nine). Its notions of self-evident truth and inalienable rights, together with a potent sense of the God-given vocation of the American people (to come to the aid of all to whom those truths are not yet self-evident), have fused to create a new version of Anglicanism on American soil.