I’ve often marveled at how the lukewarm “discipline” that conferences do is empty in real terms, yet quite effectively estranges the frontiers in mind and spirit. Even those not under the knife become aware that they must choose between orthodoxy and conscience. Thus have many of our peers left, or at least drifted far enough that they can put out tendrils on other supports (myself included).

Would it be better to be pruned with one clean cut and then try to be grafted in elsewhere? Or does one stay connected and wait to see if the trunk goes hollow?

Thanks for the work and hope you all are doing online (and off) and for filling a gap in the continuum of voices in the church.