What on earth is to miss? Stephen Smuts belongs to what I would call the pretty-picture school of blogging. Every post has a pretty picture. But other than that, there's no substance. (Compare that to the blog of a real priest in a real denomination, like Fr Z's blog. Night and day.)
As with David Virtue, Stephen Smuts is notable simply as a missed opportunity, or indeed, a duty neglected. The TAC, of which he proclaims himself a member, is a result of the "Continuers'" miscalculation that, on top of a groundswell of defections from The Episcopal Church over the ordination of women and the revision of the prayer book, which didn't happen, an equivalent groundswell would take place in the rest of the Anglican Communion once the Church of England began ordaining women. Hasn't happened. The TAC, the personal ego trip of the defrocked Episcopal priest Louis "Tod" Falk, is at best an empty shell.
The most constructive single step Stephen Smuts could take would be to acknowledge that, without an MDiv or equivalent, he is not eligible to be called a priest in any US main line denomination, and to that extent he's been blogging under false pretenses. Then he should acknowledge that the TAC, in which he is a "priest", is a corrupt sham.
Then, in the spirit of Lent, I would begin to get some respect for him once he announced that he was giving up his blog, giving up his phony career as an internet priest, and setting out to find something constructive to do with the rest of his life.
