Pastor Dan at Street Prophets weighs in on the situation in the Diocese of Virginia:
It seems strange for a dyed-in-the-wool congregationalist such as myself to find himself arguing in favor of an episcopal polity. But the important thing here is that the episcopal system is the ground rules these people established, and they ought to live by them. I can certainly understand the dissatisfaction older members have with a denomination that they perceive to have left them, even sympathize with their predicament. I have no beef with them. But the pinheads who egg these things on (and trust me, there’s a pinhead holding the cloaks of those taking potshots at the denomination – 80-somethings don’t leave church without some help), now that’s a different story. There’s a special ring in hell reserved for people who would do this to a community for the sake of ideological purity. They may not have punched their grandmother in the gut, but they’ve done the next best thing. Swine. May God have mercy on them.