June 16, 2006

Representatives of the Episcopal Church U.S.A., known as E.C.U.S.A., are meeting in Columbus, Ohio this week for a general convention to decide the entire future direction of this Protestant group. Even though E.C.U.S.A. is quite small with about three million members, it has always had a powerful influence in American life. With America’s national religious ceremonies like presidential funerals often taking place in Washington’s national cathedral, an E.C.U.S.A. building.

When a diesis of New Hampshire ordained a gay Bishop three years ago however, the church went into an uproar. Conservatives threatened to walk out and liberals defiantly wanted to make the gay lifestyle theologically acceptable in the church.

Will E.C.U.S.A. remain true to the seventy million member Anglican Communion and centuries of historic Christianity, or will it in effect become apostate?

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