Christ Church rector, the Rev. Marc Robertson:
What should we do? What God has done
Friday, October 12, 2007

Christ Church rector says Episcopal Church's doctrinal slide led local church to part company.

I appreciate Kevin Clark's column ("Love thy neighbor: It's not that difficult to understand," Oct. 10), challenging Christ Church (and all of us) to a more loving life.

Kevin's critique of institutional Christianity makes a good point: Followers of Christ constantly fall short of our Lord's example. We are, as the Bible puts it, "sinners," and as our Prayer Book states it, "miserable offenders."

I also join Kevin's lament that, in spite of all of our technological advances and sophistication, "...we still cannot achieve the one simple, humble experience for which humanity has yearned from the beginning of time: Peace, unconditional, everlasting love, and joy." In fact, it seems the more we depend on our ability to advance ourselves as the human race, the more fractured and joyless we become. the rest