St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Giles Fraser notes:

Apparently, we now live in an age where those who say unexpected or complicated things are immediately put in the merciless stocks of public opinion. This whole business has exposed a visceral stain of anti-clericalism and its second cousin, anti-intellectualism. Even those who have no love for the church cannot think this a happy state of affairs.

When my daughters get dressed in the mornings, their chief concern is that they fit in with their friends and wear roughly the same thing. They don't want to put on even a pair of socks that will mark them out as different. For different = weird. And weird = target.

Too many of us have the same attitude to our opinions. It is absolutely the job of a Christian leader to challenge this shoaling mentality.