(N.B. I am focusing on the seminary I know best, but there is a surely parallel story to be told for Nashotah House and the Reformed Episcopal seminaries. It strikes me that Trinity and the REC seminaries should naturally serve an evangelical Anglican constituency which seeks to be catholic-minded and Nashotah should naturally serve an Anglo-catholic constituency that seeks to be evangelically-minded.)

I think Lambeth is playing for what the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks is the middle ground, but he has sorely misjudged the reality. The middle is very small. Most of the American Episcopal Church is trapped under highly revisionist and pantheistic leaders, for whom Jesus Christ is not the only way. Thus, numbers-wise, TEC has little middle ground, with the revisionists in the majority, the orthodox secondary, and those in the middle last in number.

Robinson is upset, and so are some of his fellow Episcopal clerics. So what if the guy is violating one of the central tenets of Christian teaching? The attitude seems to be: since when is orthodoxy a big deal among Episcopalians?

The elite victim class is circling its wagons around Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, who lives in a partnered homosexual relationship. It was announced yesterday that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, did not include Robinson in the first batch of invitations to the Lambeth Conference scheduled for the summer of 2008.