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COMMENTARY: Let’s cut to the chase, shall we?

Tom Ehrich

I doubt that much sleep was lost, in heaven or an earth, when the tiny Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, Ill., voted to secede from the national Episcopal Church for being too liberal. Even so, Quincy’s debate over leaving the national denomination was illuminating. The debate’s final speaker is quoted as saying, “We need to make a choice. Is Jesus Christ our Savior or not?” If a church wanted to walk the walk of Jesus as Savior, it wouldn’t be debating sexuality.

(Tom Ehrich is a writer, church consultant and Episcopal priest based in New York. He is the author of “Just Wondering, Jesus,” and the founder of the Church Wellness Project, http://www.churchwellness.com. His Web site is www.morningwalkmedia.com.)


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