Honestly, I think the best model of what you're talking about is actually classical Anglicanism. Whenever I get utterly discouraged about what is happening to Anglicanism today, I look back at what we were fifty, seventy-five, even a hundred years ago and I smile. If we want to find a model for our future in the Episcopal Church, we should be looking at our own past a little more carefully.
I love that, and I completely agree with you, that we should grow to love God, "not in spite of (our) deep traditions and teachings, but because of them." Amen to that.
When someone asks me where I "found God," I have to respond, "The Church! Duh!" :P
Actually, I've always thought of Conservative Jews as the Episcopalians of Judaism.
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