Things I have learned from David Kalvelage today:

1. Any group that meets without the presence of David Kalvelage or his representative is a "somewhat mysterious body."

2. Episcopalians are supposed to rely on General Convention to make decisions rather than holy scripture, the Church Catholic, or the larger Anglican Communion.

3. A province of the Anglican Communion with only four dioceses ought not to be able to make decisions about its faithful witness to that which has been given it, or at least it is strange when it does.

4. Non-Western industrial nations (not including such as the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand) ought not to meet to talk about anything that has to do with understanding and proclaiming religious truths.

5. It is all right for TLC to talk about human sexuality, but when some little insignificant upstart group does so, it is appropriate to ridicule that group by asking what other kind of sexuality the church might be concerned with.

6. Disagreeing with the dictates of holy scripture may not be politically correct, but it is theologically acceptable.

7. David Kalvelage can read and discern the meaning of plain, concisely written statements but needs affirmation of his discernments.

8. He also believes that relativity few care what other provinces are willing for the Great Society of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America to say and do in the Name of our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as members of the Anglican Communion.

(The Rev.) James F. Graner, SSC

Larned, Kan.