LITTLE ROCK, AR: As Episcopal Church shifts, some look for new sanctuary
By Laura Lynn Brown
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
http://www.arkansasonline.com/
October 23, 2006

Becky Mason was a lifelong Episcopalian. She served on the vestry at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Little Rock. She greeted people at the door, read Scripture in worship and served on a special events committee.

In June, she followed the denomination's triennial General Convention in Ohio by reading Web logs and her pastor's daily e-mails. After the gathered bishops elected Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as the next presiding bishop, or leader of the 2.2 million-member denomination, she completed a process that began for her when bishops ratified the election of a gay man as bishop three years earlier.

Mason started visiting St. Thomas Reformed Episcopal Church in Little Rock, where she had been invited by a friend who had previously left St. Margaret's. In St. Thomas, she found "a small parish with a commitment to the teachings of the Bible and not wanting to tweak the Bible," she said. "I don't think the Bible is up for interpretation. It is what it is, and it's not outdated."

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