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By Brandt L. Montgomery After former Albany Bishop William Love announced his resignation, due to the Hearing Panel for the Trial of a Bishop determining...

Many conservatives have been made to feel that their stance is “despicable” and that there is inconsistent application of our church’s best-known invitation, “The Episcopal Church Welcomes You.”

CBC is the measure and gauge for the mind of Canadian culture, but the Christian will have to weather many subtle forms of scorn, belittlement, and mockery, either from the hosts or the guests they pander to.

From its beginning, conservatism has been against things and for things. It is not an inexplicable series of reactions.

When a certain burden must be borne by some more than others, do we suddenly adopt the pirate’s code that Those who fall behind are left behind?

That Carlson remains a part of the Episcopal Church — and could even be its most famous member —  is illustrative in a few ways.

You have really come along at the worst possible time. I had planned a return to the Republican Party, and you are standing in my way.

Here's the kind of fellow that we’ve lost in the Episcopal Church: a politically moderate swing-state governor who reads his Bible cover to cover, thinks deeply about it, and tries to put it into practice.

Some of us are both gay and conservative, and for us, the question isn’t so much how to hold diverse groups within TEC together — the more “progressive” lesbian and gay Christians “over there,” say, with the more “conservative” traditionalists “over here.”

Our new Presiding Bishop talks about Jesus and "the Jesus Movement" a great deal. I expect Episcopalians will find a degree of unity around this theme. But I don’t expect us to stop fighting. Why? Because there are still two very different narratives about Jesus in play.