“On most Sundays,” the rector of an Episcopal church told me last summer with a smile, “most of my congregation is pretty staunchly Episcopalian. But every now and then, they’re Baptists and they don’t know it.”

This is what he meant: The Anglican tradition states that during the Eucharist, there is a “real presence” of Jesus Christ. The definition of “presence” is left unclear, probably wisely. Specifying the exact nature of the deity has plunged the world into a whole lot of trouble. It’s a better move, I think, to let everyone think what they think and keep it to themselves. To keep it a little loosey-goosey.