Transfer of Leadership

[Macro]

What if Mr. Hale is released from prison?

[Chuck]

After Reverend Hale's arrest, the church splintered into numerous factions, each with their own leaders. There is no unified church, and therefore no Pontifex Maximus to govern the unified church. (Correction Added: Heck, there was no unified Church under Matt Hale either: Almost every of the Klassen era Creators either refused to join him or quit. And many broke away after joining him to form their own separate groups. - Information Correction/Reminder thanks to Brother Pat.)

Reverend Hale's term as Pontifex Maximus is over; even if he had not been arrested and finished his term as Pontifex, it would still have ended many years ago.

I'm sure if Reverend Hale were released from prison, he would give his advice where it was welcomed, but the reunified church will elect it's own Pontifex Maximus in due time. For all intents and purposes, Reverend Hale is now a reverend like any other.

[PatTracy]

The Creativity Alliance incorporating your and the rest of our Churches of Creativity is the re-unified Church, and we have our Pontifex Maximus.

Matt has been my friend for many years. As a brother I visited and stayed at his home in the heyday of the WCOTC, but to believe that the Church of that time was unified under Matt as PM is a myth. Matt had the largest Church group, but his was neither oldest nor the only Church group. The same can be said of the Creativity Alliance today.