I don't get it. I know I am not mainstream. I never watched an episode of Seinfeld, Ellen, or Survivor. I have never bought a lottery ticket. So I know there are some things in our culture that just pass me by. But I really don't get this thing with the Mr./Rev/Rt. Rev. Rodgers and Murphy (I mean no disrespect but I for one do not know what their clerical order may be). The Lord only knows.

Here is what I don't understand. Is the growing inclusion of homosexual people in the Episcopal Church the biggest problem of the Anglican Church in South East Asia and Rwanda? If the conditions in Rwanda are now and have been as I understand they have been, and if the conditions in Indonesia are similar, then what on earth is the Anglican Church doing about those conditions? Where was the voice of the Church in Rwanda during the horrible genocide? What is the church there saying now while Rwanda apparently is a major cause of the ongoing bloodshed in the Congo and Burundi?

Regarding Indonesia, where was the Church of South East Asia during the years of persecution in East Timor and the ongoing Christian-Muslim conflicts?

Perhaps these churches have been speaking out and acting on these issues, but all I hear is of their sending "missionary bishops" to America and I just don't get it.

Perhaps it is true that we are no longer one communion, for the gospel could not be so differently understood in a true communion.

No matter, I still won't watch Survivor II.

(The Rev.) Robert G. Partlow

St. Luke's Church

Powhatan, Va.