“When I was growing up at St. Peter’s, Po­dunk, I had to be twelve years old and go to confirmation class for a whole year and then be confirmed before I could receive commu­nion, but I see little kids who can’t possibly understand what it means coming up to re­ceive every Sunday. What’s going on? Has the Faith been changed?”

Anyone who has had anything that might be remotely thought of as a leadership position in the Episcopal Church during the last fifteen years has heard some variant of this question. The pat­tern of the worship life of the Episcopal Church has been chang­ing, and many people are either angry or confused, or both.