Losing My Faith

This is the first time i blog. Mostly because I have never been mad enough at something or somebody that would make me go to the effort of starting a blog.....

I have to first say that i am a cradle Episcopalian. My best friend attended Seminary a few years back and was recently surprised to hear how things had changed at their seminary. Mostly thing have turned bad. They are apparently not doing well and most of the problems are due to bad decisions being made at the top. They are making some terrible choices, rules and policies that are having bad consequences.

I can't believe that God allows such terrible things to happen to good people, especially those who have decided to live their lives teaching others about God and Jesus. I recently learned that some very good faculty members were removed by the dean of the seminary in Texas not because they were bad faculty and had done something wrong, but because the dean and others had some personal issues with them. They made up some trumped up charges against one of the faculty members and then lied and said that they did not have any money to pay the other faculty member even though the faculty member was being paid from an endowed chair. They fired the VP of Development when he dared to confront the Dean about the dismissal. Rumors are that the seminary is run like a dictatorship and that many of the board members are in the dark as to what is really happening there.  

I used to think that seminary was a place where you would go to learn how to be a good christian and walk in the path of Jesus, living our lives like him. I have come to the conclusion that it is more like any other business and that all they are interested in is how many students can they bring in to make payroll...