Charles+

I believe you've hit the nail on the head when you said that there will be
few orthodox left in TEC to even attempt any last-minute efforts to stem the
tide.  That's always the problem when there is mass migration out of a
church that's lost her moorings: there's no one left to return her to her
course.  TEC is now a classic example.  The sad thing is that there is no
unified orthodox front either.   The alphabet soup of
continuing/schismatic/whatever-you-want-to-call-it groups simply continues
to multiply and, aside from a few efforts like FACA to try to bring them
back together, few of them want to seriously sit down at an intra-mural
ecumenical table to try to knit themselves (ourselves?) into one cohesive
orthodox whole.  The best we've been able to do is forge alliances while
maintaining our independent provinces.  If that's as good as it's ever going
to get, what are we going to pass to the next generation? ... assuming
there's anything to pass.

MLW+

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Five years ago, some of our brothers wondered aloud
whether it was better for the orthodox to stay in TEC
and work for reform or to come out and build anew. 
That was before the Titanic entered its final plunge
into the depths.  Now it appears there will be few
conservatives remaining to sing "Nearer my God to
Thee."