Sunday Morning Agit-Prop
by Matt Kennedy+

The Episcopal Church has prepared a series of bulletin inserts designed, purportedly, “as a teaching tool.” The inserts will, it is said, “give your congregants information about the Episcopal Church and the General Convention, including how the convention makes its decisions.”

In reality they seem to be subtle agit-prop for theological radicalism.

The slogan at the top of the first insert (PDF), to be used on Sunday May 7th, aptly describes the current condition of the Episcopal Church: Living the Questions.

The Episcopal Church is nothing if not “open-minded”.

Theological certainty has, in fact, become the contemporary bugbear of Episcopalian thought. For that reason Living the Questions is a great slogan. It suggests that answers are not so much to be found as questions are to be asked. Life is a search, a never-ending one. There is no certainty. the rest at Stand Firm