INTERVENTION, NEW HAMPSHIRE, CONNECTICUT, FLORIDA, RIO GRANDE, AAC AND MORE

"If it be hard to endure, it must be more hard to endure hard things; and of all things hard to be endured, the hardest is death. And that if He endured, and no more but that, it might suffice; it is worth all we have, for all we have we will give for our life. But not death only, but the kind of death is it. Morten, morten autem crucis, saith the Apostle, doubting the point; 'death He endured, even the death of the cross.'" Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

INTERVENTION

It is what friends, family and loved ones do to an alcoholic who cannot see what he or she is doing to themselves, to friends, family and loved ones, and to those with whom they work in the wider world.

It is tough love, but for the sake of the person involved it must be done or the repercussions of inaction will ripple in all directions wreaking havoc on everyone.

The Episcopal Church desperately needs intervention. It is sick unto death. It is sick because of the continual compromises made over faith and morals by the House of Bishops and because it is patently obvious to anyone that unless there is intervention, the ECUSA is on the verge of imploding.

Around the country, in one diocese after another, there is tension, anxiety and despair. Calls for reconciliation grow more shrill, demonstrating they are as fictional as Frank Griswold's Affirming Catholicism.

The consecration of an openly homoerotic bishop has brought nothing but bitterness, anger and cries for help.

DIOCESE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

This week it reached right into the Diocese of New Hampshire, Robinson's own diverse backyard. Several parishes said openly and determinedly that they will not have Robinson reign over them. And so the proverbial you know what hit the fan. The laity in one parish is holding Robinson's feet to the fire and they want an answer in two weeks about alternative episcopal oversight.

ECUSA's revisionist leaders fatuously believe that they can dismiss the orthodox as just a bunch of homophobic fundamentalists unfairly trying to thwart their own enlightened minds as they jack boot their way into a progressive future…a future that looks more like the Third Reich army on retreat to Berlin.

The future grows increasingly bleak with each passing day. The choice is between Holy Scripture and anal sex. There is no middle ground. Intervention is desperately needed.

Two possibilities present themselves. The first is, of course, the conclusions of the Lambeth (Eames) Commission due out later this year. Will this be the much needed intervention for ECUSA? But what if the results are less than adequate or salvific?

The second possibility, and one that appears more likely, is that the African bishops lead by Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, will launch their own salvos with more deadly accuracy, piercing the theologically and morally bankrupt paper thin armor that no longer hides Frank Griswold's karma, a karma which long ago ran over Biblical dogma.

The attempts to hold the unity of the church on the basis of territory while jettisoning the sworn commitments to the Christian Faith will not hold the church together.