Today’s secular liberals are the direct descendants of the past century’s Puritans and Protestants, deeply concerned with matters of sin and salvation in the church of politics.
My relationship with mainstream Protestantism is beginning to remind me of what one would have with a high school girlfriend after graduating and going off to different colleges. We still have an affection but our interests have changed and, thus, so has our relationship. The Episcopal Church is an organization of verbal, not always practical, socio/political advocacy, and I've become much more interested in the metaphysical.