Letter to the editor : Just as I am

Notes: "On reading the 'Anglican Journal', I am finding the church is becoming increasingly strange and alien to me. Yet if I am honest, not strange and alien, for the most part, to the Kingdom as proclaimed in and by Jesus. One can still feel an outsider even when it is within the mandate of its founder. My non-'at-homeness' simply shews my lack of inclusiveness demonstrated by Jesus, and what flows from him. In some ways, he was very exclusive -- yet not in many ways. This is why one of my favourite and hopeful hymns: 'Just as I am -- without one plea,/ But that thy blood was shed for me ..'." [Text of entire article.]