In case you
didn’t know, The Episcopal Church has a seminary in New York City. Given
the strains of organized religion these days, it has gone through challenges
ranging from threats of insolvency to student attrition. Through it all
“General” (General Theological Seminary) has honorably muddled through. You
might imagine the seminary’s corporate management has wrung its hands over recent
years through such fits and starts.
Indeed, the Board of Trustees has resolved
to keep the place on track. So far this a simple story but what happened next
reveals a more unsettling narrative about why Americans are suspicious of institutions
to include institutional religion. When it comes to things that matter you know
where their hearts are and they ain’t with you.
