Can this woman save the Episcopal church?

So asks the theologically...er, extreme Lisa Miller about the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, Washington, D.C.'s new Episcopal "bishop."

The answer is "no."

First, it is doubtful that anybody can save the Episcopal church. Even the Good Shepherd cannot save sheep so determined to flee from Him. And lest we forget, the very gender of this "bishop" is an act of rebellion against that Good Shepherd, intellectually dishonest theological and historical rationalizations to the contrary. Best to remember, too, that the Graeco-Roman world of the First Century was one in which female religious leadership was generally accepted; the prohibitions of women's ordination in the Epistles cannot reasonably be said to have been historically or culturally conditioned.

A cavalier attitude toward the Faith Once Delivered is the whole problem with the Episcopal church, and the "solutions" Miller describes are in fact precisely what is so very wrong with the Evangelical church today. Arsenic is not an antidote for strychnine- especially when one is unwilling to give up the strychnine.

HT: Real Clear Religion