This week the Easter season conversation series is happy to welcome the Rev. Canon Dr. Titus Presler, vicar of St. Matthew’s Church in Enosburg Falls, Vermont; convener of Green Mountain Witness, the evangelism initiative of the Diocese of Vermont; president of the Global Episcopal Mission Network; and our Vicar’s father-in-law.
Dr. Presler recently wrote a provcative piece titled “EVANGELISM? TACKLING THE ROOTS OF EPISCOPALIANS’ RELUCTANCE.” It reads, in part,:
“Episcopalians rhetorically affirm a connection between word and example, speech and deed. When it comes to practice, though, we typically say yes to example, yes to deed, but no to word, or, at best, maybe to word. Reticence about verbalizing the good news of God in Christ in actual speech is what underlies Episcopalians’ reluctance to engage in evangelism, still less to embrace it as a mandate for ourselves or for the Church as a whole.”

What’s your view?