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Reflections on the Church

# Agendas, Ambition and Arrogance

Reflections on Schism, Humility and the Call to Communion

A measured reflection on division within the Church, and on the need for humility, honesty, and a renewed commitment to communion.

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## Agendas, Ambition and Arrogance

Division rarely announces itself as division. It arrives dressed as principle, as zeal, as necessity. In this measured reflection, Bishop Ashley considers schism within the Church — and the agendas, ambition and arrogance that so often drive it.

This is not a polemic. It is a pastoral, honest examination of how Christian communities fracture, what that fracturing costs, and what the way back requires: humility before God, honesty with one another, and a renewed commitment to communion.

For clergy, lay leaders, and any Christian troubled by division in the Church, these reflections offer a sober and hopeful call — to lay down our agendas and be reconciled.

### A Measured Look at Schism

How division takes root in Christian communities — and why.

### Counting the Cost

An honest reckoning with what fracture costs the Body of Christ.

### The Call to Communion

Humility, honesty, and the long road of reconciliation.

### Pastoral, Not Polemical

Written to heal and to challenge — never to score points.

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> “You are seen. You are loved. You are not forsaken.”

Bishop Ashley R. Deutschmann

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