The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church warned the Church of England not to foment schism in America, responding to a threat made over the possibility that the U.S. church will start ordaining actively gay bishops.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said Sunday, in response to questions from The Washington Times, that calls by conservatives in the Church of England for recognition of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) over gay-related issues would wound her church, already split by the secession of conservative dioceses and congregations to form the ACNA.
She urged Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to remember the “pain of many Episcopalians in several places of being shut out of their traditional worship spaces, and the broken relationships, the damaged relationships between people who have gone and people who have stayed.”
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“Recognition of something like ACNA is unfortunately likely only to encourage” further secessions, she said, reminding the Church of England that “schism is not a Christian act.”
Just a brief reminder - this is the woman who said:
“The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy - that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of all being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention.”
Now that we have cleared up anyone’s misconception that this woman has the ABILITY to recognize a Christian act, let’s move on.
Bishop Jefferts Schori’s remarks come amid a fight at the triennial meeting of the General Convention, the Episcopal Church’s top legislative body, which began moves over the weekend to overturn the church’s 2006 ban on gay bishops.
On Saturday night, the church’s World Missions Committee consolidated 13 resolutions into a single bill that opens the door for gays “like any other baptized members, to any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church.”
I don’t know about you guys but I think my sinuses just cleared up.
The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church warned the Church of England not to foment schism in America, responding to a threat made over the possibility that the U.S. church will start ordaining actively gay bishops.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said Sunday, in response to questions from The Washington Times, that calls by conservatives in the Church of England for recognition of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) over gay-related issues would wound her church, already split by the secession of conservative dioceses and congregations to form the ACNA.
She urged Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to remember the “pain of many Episcopalians in several places of being shut out of their traditional worship spaces, and the broken relationships, the damaged relationships between people who have gone and people who have stayed.”
I think I need to put a liquid refreshment warning here. Please remove from proximity of keyboard.
Okay, ready? Oh and pick up some tissues while you are standing. You are going to need them. And, remember, laughter really is the best medicine.
“Recognition of something like ACNA is unfortunately likely only to encourage” further secessions, she said, reminding the Church of England that “schism is not a Christian act.”
Just a brief reminder - this is the woman who said:
“The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy - that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of all being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention.”
Now that we have cleared up anyone’s misconception that this woman has the ABILITY to recognize a Christian act, let’s move on.
Bishop Jefferts Schori’s remarks come amid a fight at the triennial meeting of the General Convention, the Episcopal Church’s top legislative body, which began moves over the weekend to overturn the church’s 2006 ban on gay bishops.
On Saturday night, the church’s World Missions Committee consolidated 13 resolutions into a single bill that opens the door for gays “like any other baptized members, to any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church.”
I don’t know about you guys but I think my sinuses just cleared up.