On June 22, 2013, the New York Times (in a story by Mark Oppenheimer, one of its regular religion reporters), carried an account of yet another skirmish in the culture war within the Episcopal Church. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, preached a sermon in Curacao, the Caribbean island which belongs to the Netherlands. In the rather odd geography of the global Anglican Communion it is in the Diocese of Venezuela. I don’t know how many Anglicans there are in either Venezuela or the Dutch West Indies (it cannot be very...