"If they get rid of Marsh, who else do they have?" asked my wife. Good question. The talent pool in the ACA is not wide. If Marsh "retires unexpectedly", it would be because another diocesan bishop had also quietly left the picture, which would leave only one mainland US diocesan standing, neither of whom strikes me as an attractive candidate -- one of them has a record of high-handed, uncanonical dealing, and he probably would not fly with many ACA clergy. And if the denomination is to survive, it would simply need to have someone not connected with the current clique. And farther down, frankly, there's a collection of useful idiots, dangerous incompetents, thieves, liars, and perverts.
"Maybe they could check to see if David Moyer is still available," I said, not joking. Think about it. Nobody, but nobody, is going to come in from outside unless he's too desperate to be a serious contender. Walter Grundorf strikes me as a Brian Marsh clone (a little like how Czar Nicholas II was a near-twin of King George V) and not what the ACA needs now. Moyer is a little wacky, but as far as I can see, he's the kind of wacky who'd wield a machete just where the machete needed to be wielded.
Not joking. To any responsible parties in the ACA who may be reading this, do you want the denomination to last longer than the two years it's now likely to?
UPDATE: I learn that Bishop Moyer is to be received, with his Newman Fellowship group, into the Catholic Church, although Moyer will not be ordained a Catholic priest. So he is no longer available to the ACA, the worse for them.
