Given the Doc's somewhat obsessive interest (for a Pape!) [You mean that affectionately, right?-- Ed. Hey, of course! And no questions! I'm the Ombudsman!] in the current goings-on in the Worldwide Anglican Communion, I wanted to be the first to announce the official endorsement idol worship by the Episcopal Church USA.

That's really the only way to interpret "A Woman's Eucharist: A Celebration of the Divine Feminine". The theologically and biblically literate (and very funny) Ted Olsen at Christianity Today's Weblog pins this down as a worship ceremony of Ishtar/Ashtoreth/Astarte, the "Queen of Heaven" against whom Jeremiah issued some of his best, uh, jeremiads.

How very old-school, no? In a perverse, heathen kind of way?

Next up: blood sacrifices! It's a hip liturgical innovation!

Considering that this is, as Ted says, hardly hidden from public view on the official ECUSA website, can we simply conclude that the ECUSA is dead from the waist up?