That Pesky "Our Father", the CofE, and the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado

The Lord himself Jesus addressed God as "Father" when Jesus taught us to pray, "Our Father, who art in Heaven...", so who are we to try to change the way we pray so that we avoid masculine references when speaking about God? Well, there has been a persistent push to emasculate the Episcopal organization in the USA as well as the Church of England and changing the language of worship is one pernicious method progressives use. 

Two recent stories illustrate the problem.

First we cross the pond for this,

"The Church of England should avoid only calling God 'he', a bishop has said, as a survey found that young Christians think God is male.
Research by YouGov found that almost half of 18-24 year-old Christians believed God to be male, with just one in three over-65s believing the same.
The Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, bishop of Gloucester, the Church of England's first female diocesan bishop, said: 'I don't want young girls or young boys to hear us constantly refer to God as he,' adding that it was important to be 'mindful of our language'".

"Be mindful of our language"? As if to refer to God the way Jesus did would be harmful to children.

Meanwhile in the United States, the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado chose for their new bishop a woman who sponsored a resolution supporting gender neutral language when referencing God.

Episcopal Pravda reports "[Episcopal Church in Colorado] The Rev. Kimberly (Kym) Lucas was chosen as the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Colorado during its 131st Annual Convention held at Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver on Oct. 27."

Who is Kym Lucas? Jeffry Walton reported on her back in January 2018,

"Embracing progressive themes, delegates to The 123rd Diocesan Convention approved legislative proposals “On Becoming a Sanctuary Diocese: Offering Sacred Welcome to Immigrants,” “On Inclusion of Transgender People,” and “On the Gendered Language for God” at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, January 27.
Resolutions were passed in under one hour and were introduced by a small number of delegates. The Rev. Kimberly Lucas, Rector of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., and a graduate of liberal Union Theological Seminary in New York, sponsored all three resolutions.
According to statistics made available by the Episcopal Church, St. Margaret’s has declined precipitously in the past five years, from approximately 240 attendees in 2006 down to 130 (-46%)."
Gendered Language
Resolution #3, “On the Gendered Language for God,” related to Book of Common Prayer revisions that will potentially be considered by the national church at General Convention this summer:
“…eliminate, when possible, all gendered references to God and to replace them with gender neutral language, and if necessary, to alternate gendered titles when referring to God.”
The resolution was amended to read “…if revision of the Book of Common Prayer is authorized, to utilize expansive language for God from the rich sources of feminine, masculine, and non-binary imagery for God found in Scripture and tradition and, when possible, to avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God.”
“Over the centuries our language and our understanding of God has continued to change and adapt,” the resolution drafters asserted. “Our current gender roles shape and limit our understanding of God. By expanding our language for God, we will expand our image of God and the nature of God. Our new Book of Common Prayer needs to reflect the language of the people and our society … language should not be limited by gendered pronouns when avoidable.”

A crazy priest from a parish in decline becomes a bishop of a diocese in decline. Genius! What were they smoking?

Maybe, just maybe the progressive agenda might have something to do with the decline.

Most assuredly the progressive agenda is to blame for the choices of  Rachel Treweek as bishop of Gloucester and Kym Lucas as bishop of Colorado.

I am afraid the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado will be left singing "Rocky Mountain Low" a decade from now.

Throw Away Your Cloak!

This Sunday's Gospel reading is Mark 10:46-52 in which a blind man is healed,

They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Jesus stood still and said, ‘Call him here.’ And they called the blind man, saying to him, ‘Take heart; get up, he is calling you.’ So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. Then Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ The blind man said to him, ‘My teacher,  let me see again.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go; your faith has made you well.’ Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.

One interesting feature of this miracle is that the blind man is named. This means that he was known and therefore could be tracked down to verify the facts of the story if there were any doubts.

Matthew Henry in his 1706 Commentary adds a few extra points, 

This passage of story agrees with that, Matt. 20:29 Only that there were told of two blind men; here, and Luke 18:35; only of one: but if there were two, there was one. This one is named here, being a blind beggar that was much talked of; he was called Bartimeus, that is, the son of Timeus; which, some think, signifies the son of a blind man; he was the blind son of a blind father, which made the case worse, and the cure more wonderful, and the more proper to typify the spiritual cures wrought by the grace of Christ, on those that not only are born blind, but are born of those that are blind.

... The poor man, hereupon, made the best of his way to Christ; He cast away his loose upper garment, and came to Jesus (Mark 10:50); he cast away every thing that might be in danger of throwing him down, or might in any way hinder him in coming to Christ, or retard his motion. Those who would come to Jesus, must cast away the garment of their own sufficiency, must strip themselves of all conceit of that, and must free themselves from every weight, and the sin that, like long garments, doth most easily beset them, Heb. 12:1.

... It is not enough to come to Christ for spiritual healing, but, when we are healed, we must continue to follow him; that we may do honour to him, and receive instruction from him. Those that have spiritual eye-sight, see that beauty in Christ, that will effectually draw them to run after him.

I have not been able to determine if Bartimeus and Timeus were gentiles, Greek. The names would suggest they were, and this would once again demonstrate that Jesus did not restrict his healing miracles to the Jews. 

What Should a Sinking Diocese Focus On? Climate Change or Matthew 28:19-20?

The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina (EDUSC) will hold its annual waste of time convention and has selected Climate Change (formerly known as "Global Warming") as its focus, as described by Bishop Waldo in the following message, 

"Breakout speakers for Leadership Day announced"

"A recent report from the global scientific authority on climate change warned us that the catastrophic effects of climate change could become our reality as early as 2030.

According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the planet will reach the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by 2030. For the world at large, this heightens the risk of extreme drought, wildfires, flood, and food shortages for hundreds of millions of people.

Reversing centuries worth of damage to our world seems like a task entirely too large to take on. Global net emissions of carbon dioxide would need to lessen by nearly 50% and reach "net zero" in order to maintain a suitable climate. Because climate change seems like such an abstract thought, it is difficult to believe these changes are effecting us locally; it is even more difficult to know how we can even begin to make a difference.

With less than three weeks left until Leadership Day, we are proud to announce our breakout speakers, those who will offer facts and figures on climate change that effect our own local worlds.

Join us as Dr. James McClintock offers a riveting presentation on science and our stewardship of creation. As a fellow Episcopalian, he has served as an Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 1987. McClintock has led/co-directed more than a dozen scientific expeditions with the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). Together, he and his research collaborators have become the world's authorities on Antarctic marine chemical ecology. He is the author of A Naturalist Goes Fishing and Lost in Antarctica – Adventures in a Disappearing Land.

Listed below are our speakers and a small bio detailing their life's work:• Rebecca McKinney: Food Systems and Sustainability/ResiliencySustainability Specialist, Bon Secours Health Systems, Greenville; Director, Sustainable Agriculture Program, Greenville Technical College; Founder, SC Organization for Organic LivingRebecca spends her time growing, raising, preserving and preparing food, and encouraging others to do the same. She is the executive director for SCOOL (South Carolina Organization for Organic Living), the academic program director for the Sustainable Agriculture Certificate Program at Greenville Tech, and Sustainability Specialist for Bon Secours St. Francis Health System.

• Lori Ziolkowski: Climate Change and FloodingAsst. Professor, School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South CarolinaLori is a Canadian who turned her love of the outdoors into a career in science. From her first fieldwork experience as a high school student in northern Canada's boreal forest sampling microbial material on Arctic glaciers, today, she is passionate about understanding what controls the limits of life and carbon recycling on Earth. She has a special focus on biogeochemistry, geochemistry, and climate change. She is the first non-European to be awarded the Baillet LaTour/International Polar Foundation Fellowship, which is given to one scientist every two years.

• Shelley Robbins: Energy and AdvocacyEnergy and State Policy Director, Upstate ForeverShelley holds a degree in economics from Duke University, where she spent time at the Duke Marine Lab, and an MBA from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Her varied experience includes working with lemurs at the Duke Primate Center, regulating water and wastewater utilities for the Florida Public Service Commission, advocating for the protection of the Florida coast and outer continental shelf in Governor Lawton Chiles' Environmental Policy Unit, and facilitating technology transfer at the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. She has been with Upstate Forever since 2007 and has lived in Spartanburg since 1998. She covers energy, transportation, and solid waste and recycling issues.

• Rob Brown: Land Use and ConservationRector, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, SpartanburgRob serves as rector of Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church in Spartanburg. Prior to seminary he worked as a legislative assistant and aide to Congresswoman Liz Patterson in Washington DC and in Spartanburg. He has a special interest in helping Christians serve as Stewards of God's Creation, and is currently doing doctoral work at Sewanee to sharpen that focus.

• John Tynan, Water QualityConservation Voters of South CarolinaPrior to joining CVSC, John oversaw the customer service, marketing, and government relations sections of Central Arkansas Water. He has also served as the Deputy Director of Upstate Forever and Commissioner of Public Works for the City of Greenville. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Furman University and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University. He is also a 2010 Enviropreneur Fellow from the Property and Environment Research Center.

Join us on November 2 for Leadership Day for a discussion on faith and conservation. To register for this event, please click here.
There is a $50 registration fee that includes dinner.Registration will begin at 1:00pm. Dr. James McClintock will give his speech shortly after at 1:30pm. Breakout discussions with our local environmental leaders with take place from 2:30 – 3:15pm and 3:45 – 4:30pm. We will end with our closing plenary and Evening Prayer at 5:00pm. Dinner will begin at 6:30pm."

Leadership Day? Why would we need that? This past Sunday we learned all that we need to know about leadership from the Lord himself.

"But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all." 

I am afraid that EDUSC in its mistaken attempt to save the Earth has forgotten that there is only one way that mankind can be saved, and that is by obeying and serving the Lord,

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 

Of course, obedience to the Lord's word is not something that revisionist bishops and priests take seriously, and that is why they are so easily led astray by the ever changing winds of the spirit of the age. 

How to Handle a Power Struggle

This Sunday's Gospel reading is Mark 10:35-45,

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.’ 

That is a rather remarkable ask, but aren't we all guilty at one time or another of asking Jesus for what we want rather than what Jesus wants for us?

And he said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ And they said to him, ‘Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory. 

That request is so far over the top that it draws our attention, as it will draw the attention of the other ten disciples. Were James and John thinking of an earthly kingdom of which they would help to rule?

But Jesus said to them, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?’ They replied, ‘We are able.’ 

They still don't get it. To their minds the cup is full of wine, and baptism is just a dunk onto cold water.

Then Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; 

I don't think they understood the dangerous consequences they will face for following Jesus, so Jesus has to let them down by answering, 

but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.’

Was Jesus planting the seeds of predestination here?

The nerve of those two, and that was just what the other disciples were thinking,

When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. 

How many times have we seen power struggles tear an organization apart?

So Jesus called them and said to them, ‘You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. 

Jesus puts the ten in their place. There is no "i" in "team". Then he assures them that he is not exempt from this rule.

For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.’ 

There is great power in Jesus' words about being powerless.

The only trap we might fall into is if we try to be more powerless than the next guy.

Ah, such is our nature.

Killing the Patient With Kindness: Trans-sexual Hormonal Treatments

From the Family Research Council  comes this,

"In a study of 5,000 people who identify as transgender, men trying to become women were 80 to 90 percent more likely to have a stroke or heart attack. They also had a higher risk of blood clots from the estrogen. That's an astounding level of risk for anyone, let alone these patients, who are choosing to create an imbalance in their system. 'This is the largest study of the health of transgender individuals on hormone therapy ever done,' one of the authors, Dr. Darios Getahun, told NBC News. 'Doctors and patients need to be aware of the possibility for increased health risks for transgender women.'"

Surprisingly this escaped the NBC News censors.

I sat on this for three months to see if it would gain any traction. It never did, and the "transgender" machine marches on.

There is an old saying in Medicine that by doing some things that your patient desires you may be "killing the patient with kindness".

In Medicine there is an older axiom attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, from "Of the Epidemics" , it goes,

“primum non nocere,”or, "First do no harm." 

And the long forgotten  the Hippocratic Oath which goes like this,

“I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.”

Revisionist 20th century physicians like these from Harvard have written in an escape clause,

"The fact is that when difficult, real-time decisions must be made, it’s hard to apply the 'first, do no harm' dictum because estimates of risk and benefit are so uncertain and prone to error."

Uncertainty is one of  revisionists' primary arguments in any of our modern issues, be they medical or theological.

I wonder if physicians are informing their patients and the parents who are seeking these treatments for their children of all of the risks given the lack of research on any benefits gained by taking those risks.

The news media certainly isn't.

The Judge

This Sunday's reading from Hebrews 4:12-16 caused me to think about how we humans try to decide who is telling the truth, especially in light of the recent Justice Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings.

Over the millennia we have devised various methods of judging. The ancient Hebrews went through a time when there was no one to judge, then there were "Judges", then the Kings, the Babylonians, the Greeks, and the Romans. In the United States we now have the court of law, the court of the press, and the court of social media.

Still, we are often left wondering where the truth lies.

The fact of the matter is that The Truth never lies. Instead, it lives as Paul writes,

"Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account."

 When one takes an oath to tell the truth, and if it is taken with the words, "So help me God", the oath taker should remember that the word of God is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of his or her heart, and when their judgement day comes, all will be laid bare.

There is no such thing as "my truth", "his truth", or "her truth". The fact that we even speak in such terms should tell us that Truth is something that we are looking for, a hope, an ideal, something beyond us.

Luckily for us there is someone who has promised that he will advocate for us when our time to face the Truth comes.

"Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."

Accept Jesus as your advocate and Saviour, for on that terrible day when all of our lies, evil thoughts and intentions are exposed, He will stand beside you, placing his bloody hands on your shoulders and saying, "I died for this one too." 

Episcopalians In Need of Pastoral Care Following the Kavanaugh Hearings

The Justice Kavanaugh confirmation hearings took up a lot of the media's attention for the past  several weeks. The reaction from Episcopalians has been predictable. The national organization of Episcopalians whined that Kavanaugh's name be withdrawn before all of the facts were in, presuming guilt in order to claim a righteous stand against a nominee who they were vehemently opposed to anyway because of their fear that he might swing the court to restrict abortions. 

We heard about this via an e-mail from the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina last week,

By David PaulsenPosted Oct 4, 2018[Episcopal News Service] 

"Episcopal leaders, congregations offer pastoral responses in wake of Kavanaugh hearings  

With Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court potentially on track for a final vote in the Senate as soon as this weekend, some Episcopal leaders are adding their voices to the ecumenical response to Kavanaugh’s hearings and the sexual assault allegations against the judge.
The National Council of Churches, of which the Episcopal Church is a member, issued a statement Oct. 3 calling on President Donald Trump to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination because of his testimony during the hearings and his judicial record.
'Judge Kavanaugh exhibited extreme partisan bias and disrespect towards certain members of the committee and thereby demonstrated that he possesses neither the temperament nor the character essential for a member of the highest court in our nation,' the Council of Churches said."

These so called "churches" are really not interested in the judge's demeanor, it is all about abortion, abortion, abortion.

Nobody needs pastoral care, especially from Episcopal false teachers.

Apparently, some of the few remaining conservative Episcopalians who actually read these missals from Bishop Waldo's communications team were upset enough to let him hear about it. The Bishop was forced to apologize because of these "few" who spoke up. He issued the following letter yesterday,

9 October 2018
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
This past weekend, we sent out our usual EDUSC News email update. As always, our goal with this update is to share news from across the diocese and the larger Church. We make no political endorsements or condemnations, of persons or parties.
In our weekend edition of the EDUSC News, we included a report from the Episcopal News Service about Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. The article led off with a summary of a statement by the National Council of Churches, of which The Episcopal Church is a member. We felt the statement was newsworthy regarding the larger Church, meriting its inclusion.
However, the majority of the article focused on various ways that dioceses and parishes across the country have responded to victims of sexual assault. The article highlighted the difficult but necessary work done by those gathered at General Convention this summer, listening to stories of those who have been victimized by others in the Church.
A few took exception to the inclusion of this Episcopal News Service report, to the extent that it is worth addressing with the whole Diocese.
These past few weeks, our national conversation about sexual assault took a new turn, bringing us into further difficult and consequential considerations. Women and men who are victims of sexual violence experience unspeakable trauma with often lifelong consequences. We must pray for all who suffer, including Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and her family. We must also pray for those who are accused, even falsely, for they suffer consequences as well. So, in this moment, we pray also for Justice Kavanaugh and his family.
It is difficult to deny that we as a nation seem to be living on the edge of a knife. Any number of subjects and events create opportunities for us to feel anger and bitterness toward one another and to give up on our relationships with each other within the Body of Christ. Ephesians tells us to approach one another “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.” This is our call especially in the midst of conflict, a call to which the apostle Paul repeatedly called the earliest Christian communities.
When it comes to claims of sexual abuse in our institutions, our diocesan policy – and indeed the practice of The Episcopal Church – is to hold everyone affected in prayer. This ENS article failed to do that. We must take accusations seriously, and we must respect the dignity of all people; those who have suffered sexual assault and those who have been accused.
Therefore, when we are on the edge of a knife that seeks to cut us apart from one another, we, as the Church, must find a way back to each other. We must find ways to be open and honest with one another. We must listen before we judge.
I take every accusation of sexual violence seriously. I also seek to respond pastorally to all involved, both the accuser and the accused, and their families. I invite each of you to do the same.
Yours in Christ,
The Rt. Rev. Andrew WaldoBishop, Diocese of Upper South Carolina

I am still waiting for Bishop Waldo to apologize for sending a large chunk of these conservative Episcopalian's money to the National organization each year, money that goes to support heresy and of course abortion, abortion, abortion.

If conservatives were as mean and hateful as those acting up against everything Republican these days, pastoral care would be needed. Imagine hateful people hounding their bishops and their families, interrupting their meals at restaurants with chants of "Baby killer" or "Heretic". Imagine them planting thousands of tiny crosses in front of those bishops' cathedrals. Imagine them having die-ins in front of those bishops' cars preventing them from driving home. Imagine confronting them as they enter General Conventions or at their hotels during the convention.

Just imagine, because it won't happen.

We know how to behave, and besides, the S.S. Episcopal is sinking anyway, and we don't need to waste any more torpedoes on her.

Uncomfortable Words (For Revisionist Preachers)

This Sunday's reading is from Mark 10:2-16,

Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ But Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’
Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.’People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.’ And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.

The last time I heard a revisionist Episcopal priest give a sermon after this Gospel reading, the focus was on the little children being brought to Jesus and how Jews considered children to be unclean, and that no respectable rabbi would ever touch them. "Humbug", I thought and understood he was not going to talk about the elephant in the pews, you know, Jesus' opinions about marriage and divorce.

But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’

These "red letter words" are hard for revisionists to spin so they are usually conveniently ignored. Once ignored, everything else falls into place. Romans 1 can be trashed, the Old Testament can be bashed, and any part of scripture that you don't like can be buried.

Jesus' words are so plain here in taking us back to the beginning of creation. You can't argue with him on this unless you are willing to deny his Lordship by saying that he was wrong, or that he was meeting his audience where they were, or that his statement is about heterosexuals and has no bearing on same-sex marriage.

If you are in an parish where your preacher tries one of those arguments, or if he/she/it ignores those "uncomfortable" words, close your wallet or pocketbook and run for your life.

Episcopal Decline: Marriage and Baptism go together...

From my lifelong friend Wallace Hartley comes this,

As an observer from my ACNA lifeboat, I get to witness to the death throes of the S.S. Episcopal with every passing piece of flotsam and jetsam that drifts by carried on the waves of the internet.

Most recently, Jeff Walton at the IRD reported the dramatic drop in marriages and baptisms being broadcast by that sinking ship.

While it may make sense to most of us that Christian Marriage should lead to children which should lead to Baptism and little Christians who grow up to be big Christians who marry and have more children and therefore more baptisms, this common sense seems to have escaped Episcopalians who have abandoned Christian marriage for either hooking up,  "Holy Shacking Up", or same-sex marriage, none of which are advised by our Lord, and all of which will lead to the declines seen in the graphs pictured above.

Every time my friend the UndergroundPewster points out that Episcopalians need to repent and try to follow our Lord's desires for us, he/she gets slammed by someone calling themselves "Anonymous" who simply refuses to accept that the denominational ship is going down because it has gone off the course God charted for it long ago.

Watching the disaster unfold, I penned the following, 

With apologies to Apologies to  James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn,

"Marriage and Baptism Go Together" 

Marriage and Baptism, Marriage and Baptism, go together it's common wisdom, known for generations, but lost on Episcopalians. 

Try, try, try to explain to them, and they'll say its evolution. Try, try, try and you will only add to their confusion. 

Marriage and Baptism, Marriage and Baptism have gone the way of Confirmation. Like the Catechism also, Gone the way of the dodo. 

Try, try, try to explain to them, and they'll say its evolution. Try, try, try and you will only add to their confusion. 

Marriage and Baptism, Marriage and Baptism, declines Episcopalians cannot fathom, let me tell you brothers (and sisters) you can't have one without the other.