That reminds me of something I saw today.  Did you know that according to Ann Coulter, not only are Jews Christians, but the Episcopal Church is barely a church at all?

Les: Sure, she thinks to herself, he SAYS he’ll help support the baby, but he’ll probably turn his back on him when his kid needs him the most. No thanks!

Jeez, you’re a funny bastard.

Zhyndra: Did you know that according to Ann Coulter

So’s Annie ... though, on a different level.

I’m an Episcopalian, too, and I’m not sure what the message is supposed to be.  That’s the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan website, fwiw.

(I just realized that the EDOMI site links to a web page *I* designed for our parish on Episcopal vocabulary—forgive me, all, but I did it back then in FrontPage.  We’re replacing the whole site, I promise.)

No diamonds in the picture, but it’s an oddly vague (and mixed) message.  Maybe ...

Ah.  Bless Google.

If you go to the website listed on the billboard, and go through the I-usually-bypass-them Flash intro, you’ll see the whole EDOMI “My God Is ...” campaign—which, according to this sniffily-disapproving blogger, is what you saw one of on this billboard (they’re also putting similar signs on busses).  It’s a case where seeing several of the ads will get the meaning across (God is a lot of different things to Episcopalians), but a single shot can be kind of confusing.  (The blogger in question is dubious about the whole campaign, and disapproves of one that says “My God is Mother” and another one that (gasp) strongly implies gay relationships while saying “My God is Love").

A bit more “My God is” campaign info can be found here.  Seen in whole, it’s kind of cool, though I dislike looooong Flash intros on websites and find the presentation there to be an odd blend of slogans and educational material.  And, as you note, if you only see one of them, the overall message doesn’t work at all.

I do like the diocesan logo/shield, though.  A nice variation on the Episcopal standard.

As to Ms. Coulter’s assessment of the Episcopal Church ... I have no idea what she’s talking about.  I can imagine her asserting that it’s not Christian (by her own quaint theological standards), but, damn, we’ve got more “churchiness” (in terms of structure/organization, liturgy, tradition and history) than 90% of the denominations out there.

Indeed, some folks find us *too* churchy.

Of course, I rarely have any idea where Ms. Coulter comes up with her statements, so ...