The Frozen Chosen

Another wonderful New Yorker article covered the effects on the Episcopalian Church of ordaining a gay priest against the background of the movement of the Episcopalian population center toward the global south. It includes this:

Bill Clinton recently kidded his Episcopal predecessor George H. W. Bush for being one of the "frozen chosen;"

and ends with a PR person's mournful assessment of the current state of the church:

"Join us in a diplomatically intricate, ethically ambiguous, and sometimes publicly humiliating tightrope walk toward Jesus."