Yep, its called denial where I come from ...

Jefferts Schori argues the number of congregations leaving the church is not large – roughly 1 percent of the 7,600 congregations, by her count. “It gets a lot of press and a lot of play, but it's a relatively small portion of the church,” said Jefferts Schori, who is in San Diego this weekend for a pair of public talks. More.

-A blogger writes-

Bishop Jefferts Schori's use of statistics has the potential to be misleading. [duh! GRL3]

While the figure of 1% of Episcopal congregations having left the church may be accurate, this does not take account of the fact that a great many of these congregations are much larger than average.

Measured in terms of average Sunday attendance, the loss is considerably higher than 1%. For example, in Virgina, the 11 congregations that have recently left the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia to join a Nigerian jurisdiction, while only some 5% of the parishes in that diocese (which is alarming enough in itself), represent close to 20% of the diocese's average Sunday attendance.

The problem is much more serious than the Presiding Bishop lets on.

-another blogger says-

And you thought the Catholics had problems........

-another blogger says-

"Humans are naive idiots if we think some book written by other humans is really the exact word of God." [Mark my words, that guy or gal is destined to be a bishop in the Episcopal Church. GRL3]