I attended a recent diocese planning meeting

On Thursday, May 16 in the evening I attended a recent Diocese of Washington planning session to talk about possible happenings at the Episcopal Church in my vicinity.

 It was a fun event; and I enjoyed it.  I mentioned how I thought the Church could grow in membership in the future.  Alluding to the phenomenon in religion of great preachers like Billy Graham, I said that the Church's sermons today lacked especial relevance to the world we live in.  I urged that our priests could do well to take as their exemplar the Great Father Bacon of All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, whose sermons awakened his congregation with a sense of our doing the right thing as is part of God's purpose in our lives.

I brought out that we Christians should object to joining forces with the Saudis in the Yemen war to throw out the rebels.  I don't even think my hearers know our role in that conflict.  Oh well.

At the end of the session, I was glad someone spoke out that we should have something like a revival preacher come to Washington and stage an event or two!