The episcopal church, described by W. H. Auden before he died as having gone “stark, raving mad”— one hates to contemplate what he must have thought afterward—underwent shock treatment at its most recent General Convention in Denver. And there are now some signs that recovery from its malaise of the Sixties impends.
Traditional beliefs of the Episcopal Church have for years pressed at the perimeter of the term “broadminded.” The only belief a man could hold that would disqualify him from being an Episcopalian was—the belief that he was not an Episcopalian. As a Southern politician used to say, the good thing about being an Episcopalian is that it interferes with neither your politics nor your religion.
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