Although I am most certainly a believing and professing Christian, it is not the only source for my values and beliefs. It's easy to assume that everything that comes from me is Bible-centered, but it's not accurate. Also, even from just the view of me as Christian, us Anglicans are usually a pretty hard lot to pin down on any issue-- we keep insisting on bringing a third view into situations most folks are content to polarize-- for us, we look to Scripture, Tradition, AND Reason. We call it our three-legged stool, and it often seems like we can sit on it temporizing all damn day. Why? Cuz it's one way we pray, as we look around us with the 365 degree view a stool affords, keeping all three legs under us, resisting offers to cut off any of them-- and persisting in reflecting on the mysteries visible from that place. Me, I like to spin on mine. Hardi, on the other hand, enjoys the fiddle tune, "The Stool of Repentance." Go figure.

There is still no substitute for actually getting to know a human being. :~)

~Susan