I was reading yet another article in the New York Times about the Episcopal/Anglican Church and their trouble with accepting Bishop Gene Robinson as one of their own. It fills me with tears to read how the world Anglicans and many Episcopalians in the US have responded to his service as Bishop of New Hampshire. I think of the suffering he must feel to break this new ground in the church that he must love. I pray for him and pray that one day all will look around and think: “What on God’s good earth were we thinking? What was the issue again?”

Isn’t this a time of war? Poverty is affecting more and more people in the US. We still have an AIDS crisis, food shortages, unemployment is on the rise, overcrowded prisons, people are being broken left and right. But there is not a moment in which I sense that the Episcopal Church actually seems interested in restoring people. The church has lost its way, not because it appointed Bishop Robinson, but because it forgot why it is here in the first place. Restoring people must be the first precept of any church. The church is missing the mark on this one.

The only one at this point who can actually be seen restoring people is Bishop Robinson. His example is uplifting for oppressed Lesbians, Gay men and other sexual minorities.

I pray for him that the love of God may sustain him. I can’t see that the Episcopal Church is doing it.

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