Perhaps I have failed to communicate. It is one of the skills I have worked on for years, and yet, so much still needs to be done. Also, it’s raining here.
After 40 years or increasing divergence from orthodoxy, in the Episcopal Church, their dissidents (the orthodox) have either reached accommodation with the new woke rulers and their new ideas, or have left for more orthodox folds. The Anglican Continuum, for example, Rome for another.
In the twenty years I have been in my parish, whenever another dust-up occurred in TEC, we (in my parish) would look at each other and wonder if we might see a refuge-seeking dissident Episcopalian. For the last 4 or 5 years there have been none such. We consider dissident Episcopalians now to be fabulous creatures, of the nature of unicorns. TEC is much more homogeneous, we conclude. Happy with where they are.
OTOH, we are getting an influx of mainline protestants, accepting our high Church and Anglo-Catholic parish with open arms. I am amazed, but grateful.