Episcopalians should look beyond their differences
3/3/2007

If anyone reading this has ever felt left out, as if you don't belong, read on.

"The Misfits" is more than a movie that was filmed in Reno once upon a time with Marilyn Monroe. It is a way of life. And nowhere can it be as sorely experienced as when it comes to religion.

Eugene Peterson in his introduction to the Gospel of Luke in The Message writes: "But religion has a long history of doing just that, of reducing the huge mysteries of God to the respectability of club rules, of shrinking the vast human community to a 'membership.' But with God there are no outsiders."

All of this became painfully more real to me as I read of the recent gathering of the 38 Primates of the Anglican Communion embracing 77 million people throughout the world.

The primates are the heads of their respective branches of what we in the United States call the Episcopal Church. They are all men, with the exception of our primate, the first woman to hold that office, Katharine Jefferts Schori, formerly Bishop of Nevada. (And that a woman holds that position is just part of the problem.) the rest

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