I found this on Drell’s Descants. (EDIT: Drell did not pen this article!)
Can anything be done to mend the peace of the Episcopal Church? The answer is yes, but to imagine it we need to look beyond the church’s existing governance structures. They are mired in the syndrome Max Weber identified long ago as an affliction common to large organizations: the displacement of charisma by bureaucracy, of spirituality by legalism, of leaders by organization men — and nowadays, organization women.
His proposed solution is church councils. I’d recommend you read the original, but in short, I disagree. We need more council meetings like I need a hole in my head. Councilar idiocy is what got TEC, and by extension Global Anglicanism, in trouble. Only a return to theological foundations can save any troubled religion.
Humanistic “refining” will snuff out a denomination every time.
Just to clarify, I neither wrote this nor agreed that this was the solution. Interestingly, this came from Episcopal Life Online. BLD