So, Why Are You an Episcopalian?
Two friends, from differing professional and intellectual perspectives, discuss their reasons for being Episcopalians.
Broad Perspective
Many historians view the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century as a catalyst for the changes that ultimately pushed Europe out of the medieval period and into what we would recognize today as modernity. Things like secularism, rationality, freedom of conscience were all responses to the challenges the Reformation brought to the late medieval order. In England, the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 brought some stability to the Reformation there and helped codify Anglicanism as a "middle way."
Scripture
I Peter 3: 15 (NIV): Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.