That hat on her head that is shaped like a mitre sort of says it all. She might well have got it from the women's head wear department at Lord and Taylor's. The total and considered lack of any, any, Christian symbolism on what we may assume is meant to be an item of Christian ecclesiastical vesture says plainly that no intelligible reference to Christ or the Christian faith will be allowed to confuse, or cause alarm to any who might be thought to be alienated by them. This lady's vesture, like her teaching, is a groundless sham parading as a Christian inclusiveness and modernity. The same may be said for the clever swirling patterns on the 'mitre' often seen on the head of Archbishop Welby, of Canterbury. (I can just imagine Archbishop Laud turning over in his grave!)

Liberal. Inclusive. Tolerant. We may say 'LIT' for short. LIT people are all of a feather. There is quite a list of things of which they are passionately il-liberal, non-inclusive, and in-tolerant. Orthodox faith is among these things. A sacramental theology that is specific, historically orthodox, and de fide is another. Theology of the human body is another. The Church's musical and liturgical patrimony is another. They are people who (as Fr R Barron so well puts it) know an awful lot about 'tolerance', but very little about true love. Their 'love' is often for things that should in no wise be tolerated or included. Then there is the matter of certain speech, certain music, certain faithfulness to 'the faith once delivered' which are anathema to LIT people. LIT people cannot even tolerate criticism from differing believers, whom they excoriate, silence, and ex-clude. One could go on. LIT people have absolutely no room in their supposedly big tent for supposedly all people - only for those who can tolerate their intolerance, only for other LIT people. They are Episcopalian, CofE, Protestant, Evangelical, Roman Catholic, in and out of clerical orders of all ranks. And, upon close examination it will be understood that LIT people are really quite 'un-LIT'.

Someone on another conversation recently was asking about Anglo-Catholics. Without labouring the matter any further, one who has been there can tell you that an Anglo-Catholic would not, could not, be part of any entity that was in communion with this lady. And any who are in such communion who thought they were Anglo-Catholic are quite in denial, or are badly deceived.