Thanks so much for providing initial access to a range of what the listening process brings us among Anglican - and perhaps other - believers. All that did for me was to strengthen my existing hunches that a listening process across our diversities of views, paradigms, and so forth could do nothing but help us live together in peace and worship and witness and service as Anglicans. Given how easily this could have been done, provided we had had strong leadership and encouragement and funding for it, I am further persuaded that the realignment campaign is even more forced. Rather than inevitably splitting us because some have gone way too far on the progressive Anglican end, as it so often claims to be the irresistible case, its neglect of listening gives away the fact that it has ceased to be committed to certain historic Anglican traditions which it finds inconvenient, to say the least.

Alas. It was fun to be Anglican while it lasted, before the conservatives tore down the house for the rest of us in God's name. Because, as they would say, Jesus told them to do it.

Curious thing, though, we are all still here, all the rest of us, and despite everything the conservative believers are doing, we are all still here right with them on the planet. Needing to live, work, pray, and do service in peace.