To the editors:
Bryan Miller’s June 9 piece on the Episcopal Church and its new Book of Common Prayer came to my attention only a week or so ago. It left me wondering how many of the seemingly balanced and informative Reader stories I’ve read over the years, on subjects I didn’t happen to know a lot about already, were in fact as distorted and tendentious as this one. Indeed, I felt moved to write you to that effect, but judged that it was probably too late.
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Now, however, I’ve just come across the July 7 letter from “Longtime employee, Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.” On the one hand, I can’t help admiring Longtime employee’s chutzpah in putting on paper some feelings that lots of us have, but–being good Episcopalians–are too polite to express. On the other hand, assuming a few of your readers might be really interested in gaining accurate impressions of the Episcopal Church, they won’t be helped much more by Longtime employee than they were by Miller. So I do want to attempt a more temperate response, and hope you’ll see fit to print it, the time-lag notwithstanding.
James G. Carson W. Winona
