There are a number of forces that draw us to the church.  When we get beyond inertia, family pressures, culture and the like, we face our choices.  Most of us understand concepts like that inner voice, that nagging question about what our lives mean, what this is all about.  For many, then, we come to the church because we want to be better people, because even though it doesn't have all the answers to our questions, it does reinforce our innate sense of the need to be better, and offers us a model, a discipline to use to try to get better.  Even if we don't believe some of what the leadership teaches, it is our desire to be something better, our desire to respond to the questions posed by the universe with a great "yes"that leads us here.

That is an important context from which we view the ongoing scandal.  For if those at the top don't share that desire for that great yes, then why do this at all?  That's a context that has led many to leave, and even more to doubt.