Relationships.

I was reading my email this morning when I came across this article that the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided that he's had enough of the silly American church and their refusal to play the game the way he decided they should. To be fair, what the article actually says is:

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is proposing that representatives currently serving on some of the Anglican Communion's ecumenical dialogues should resign their membership if they are from a province that has not complied with moratoria on same-gender blessings, cross-border interventions and the ordination of gay and lesbian people to the episcopate.

Really? I didn't know you had any real authority over here, Rowen. I'm also starting to think the relationship between the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion has become abusive. Let me explain what I mean: The moratoria on same gender blessing etc was not decided on by our church. That was their idea. What were we supposed to do? Tell the Holy Spirit to wait just a little while longer on this because these folks haven't grown up yet? We don't run around telling other provinces in the church what to do. We haven't tried to strong arm anyone else into respecting women, ordaining women, or giving equal consideration to gay and lesbian folks who are called to ordained ministry.

He wants us to leave the playground because we didn't play his little game and quite frankly, I'm so far past giving a crap what the Worldwide Anglican Communion thinks it's not even funny. I don't care if my church has a relationship with a diocese in Africa anymore. I stopped giving a rip about that when they started sending missionaries to us a few years ago. As for Canterbury, it's not like this position is getting them record numbers of people in the pews every week--they have a lower attendance rate than the US church--even with all our bad habits like being nice to queers.

I'm so sorry that these people are too stupid to figure out that Jesus of Nazareth was a liberal. (I would say is a liberal, but the Lord hasn't sent out any political memos lately.) It's not my fault they're too stupid to realize what they're reading when they crack open the gospels. Of course, there are Christians out there who are too stupid to realize Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, so I suppose I should cut them some slack for figuring this out. At least, I think they've figured this out. I have been wrong before.

I think telling them to have it their way (without resigning of course, that makes it look like we think we did something wrong) is the best course of action at this point. I'm just one woman but I think we've gotten to a point in this relationship where we've all stopped hearing each other. Some distance might be a good thing.

Is it a sign that I'm jaded that I'm at the point where when someone wants to walk out of my life I just let them? I'm so over begging people to love me. It's never done me a bit of good. I just hope the Church figures that out before she ceases being The Church. You can't please everybody. Impressing people has never been our business.

Speaking of that, can somebody please talk about the Gospel sometime instead of who's sleeping with who and whether or not that person is wearing a clerical collar?