We warmly welcome single persons, people of all races and families of every kind. He had many theological ideas that set the stage for our own Bishop Spong. But not least of all he stood out from the crowd because he was divorced and remarried, twice, when that was still a novel thing among the clergy. He used to say that the reason Islam was such a fierce competitor for Christianity was that it preached One God and three wives, whereas Christianity preached one wife and three gods.
Monotheism is easier than monogamy.
While most Muslims might aspire to two or three wives, some Arab potentates have dozens, even a hundred wives. That's a storybook version of the English Reformation. But a real issue facing the church today has to do with figuring out what is God's plan for marriage, for intense human unions. Christianity is booming Africa. African bishops at various times have taken or given permission for Christians to be polygamists.