Bishops Leave & The Zeitgeist

Bishop Dave Bena retired and left the Episcopal Church for CANA, the Convocation for Anglicans in North America. It is part of the so-called rescue mission for the sinking raft of the godless Episcopalians. Bishop Dan Herzog retired and renounced his orders to become a layman in the Roman Church.
These two men were closely and actively involved with the Evangelical, Catholic and Reform renewal movement in the Diocese of Albany and elsewhere. Dan had us reading Rick Warren's, The Purpose Driven Church and Claude Payne's, Reclaiming the Great Commission. He sent us Lyle Schaller's essays. Things went wrong. All the good intentions and prayers, all the solutions they imagined, abandoned them and probably surprised them. I mean, if they weren't surprised at where they have come, then they must have been planning it all along. I don't think so.

They were swept into the troubles of the day, the troubles in the church. This tiny Episcopal Church... and the global Anglican Communion... are participant in the troubles of our time.

I do wish those who get upset about the Zeitgeist would explain how they managed to free themselves from its influence and keep free. That would be more helpful than the familiar scold that liberals or whoever are captive to the spirit of the age. We're here, we're now... we are in this together.