To the editors:
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Firstly, I’d like to thank Bishop Griswold [Letters, July 14] for repudiating both the tone and content of the letter written by the anonymous, supposed-employee of the Episcopal Diocese [Letters, July 7]. Never once, over many years of contacts with his predecessor Bishops of Chicago and the clergy and lay staff (then and now) of the Diocese of Chicago, have I experienced anything but genuine warmth and pastoral interest in my spiritual needs. I would be greatly surprised if such an employee were, in fact, a member of what is in reality a small, closely-knit, staff family of Christian men and women.
As a former Episcopalian for 25 years (a sometime postulant for Holy Orders and novice in a religious order, and then vestryman, acolyte master, and senior high youth leader at St. Luke’s, Evanston), I went through various degrees of “churchman-ship”: from a devout Anglo-Catholic (Mass, Mary, and confession), through being a modified-Highchurch activist in liberal causes (demonstrations in cassock, carrying a processional cross, and guitar Eucharists cum incense), to radical, Episcopalian-revisionist (house Celebrations presided over by female priests and denigration of traditional theology/spirituality as “irrelevant”).
N. Winthrop
