Episcopal bishops' different reference points

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/31996

[Scripps Howard News Service] 3 Apr 2008--There is nothing new about Anglicans worrying about the environment.

One of the Church of England's most famous hymns, after all, offers this somber vision of industrialization from poet William Blake: "And did the countenance divine shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here among those dark satanic mills?" (See: http://www.weddingguideuk.com/articles/wordsmusic/hymns/Hymn-AndDidThoseFeetInAncientTimes.asp)

Nevertheless, a recent sermon by the U.S. Episcopal Church's outspoken leader raised eyebrows as it circulated in cyberspace. Some traditionalists were not amused by a bookish discussion of bovine flatulence on the holiest day in the Christian year.