Reality Check: Katie’s Endorsement of Post-Orthodoxy

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[Anglican Mainstream] 27 July 2007--I am intrigued by the psychological and intellectual mental gymnastics apparent in this run-up to Lambeth. We keep being informed that the les/bi/gay issue is a second-order matter, that that though disagreement over it may be sadly, indeed, unchristianly, heated and even hostile, in the main, where it really matters, nothing has shifted. The core essentials of the faith once delivered to the saints are still intact. Sounds good, doesn’t it? For many of us, we need such psychological reassurance; too much is at stake for us to think otherwise. Worlds within and upon worlds are now threatened by the sin of all sins being committed by those difficult, dogmatic conservates, that of ’sectarianism’. Loyalty to denominational structures and the unity of ‘The Church’ is preached with increasing conviction to those who have the audacity and bad manners to challenge the illiberal ‘liberalism’ of certain ecclesiastical hierarchies.