Quite aside from any theological considerations, Mrs. Schori’s suggestion that she visit during one of the busiest times of the year—the last three days of Holy Week—is yet another example of her basic obliviousness to the lives and concerns of other people. 

Some have expressed an admiration for her frankness.  My own admiration for it is somewhat tempered by the uneasy suspicion that it may be due less to courage than to cluelessness.

Why is it that the PB of the Episcopal Church finds herself free during Holy Week?  Nothing going on in NY?  Seems odd to me.

Shouldn’t she be either in New York in a parish or in the National Cathedral that week doing what Bishops do?  I agree with Cindy T.  Sounds odd.

Talk about your cushy jobs!  The PB of the Episcopal church has Holy Week free.  And your accountant goes fishing in the first two weeks of April.

Clueless? Probably. However, this woman is a long way from any concern over conventional Christian activities, such as Holy Week, and cannot be expected to take note of them. She will no doubt be at the beach getting some rays on Easter Sunday. Weather is usually nice. Any way, since the Resurrection never happened, what’s the big deal about Easter anyway?
I simply marvel at the continuing saga of Mrs. Schori. You can’t make this stuff up. No one would believe it.

If I didn’t really want to go to a flyover diocese, but I wanted to appear as though I were open and willing to communicate, I might offer to come during the busiest time of the year. That way it looks as though I’ve made the attempt and our failure to meet is more due to inconvenient scheduling than to unwillingness.

I’m just saying is all.......

Problems in Kansas...... Problems in Georgia............ Who would have thought? Anyway......... “All is well”......

Grizzie was usually in New York during Holy Week.

Griswold was NOT always in NY.  Was it last year he was at K Street in Washington D.C.?

Sometimes PB’s do visit other dioceses during Holy Week.  These comments strike me as being attack +Schori for attack’s sake, not necessarily grounded in reality.

Not one of Stand Firm’s better comment threads.

I think the criticism of Mrs. Schori’s “offer” is very pointed.  One of the comments on MCJ pointed out that this is a classic passive-aggressive tactic - it’s couched in supposedly pastoral terms, but it’s effect is to put the other party on the defensive.  Whether it’s that her presence would be inconvenient (disrupting already-made plans) or that they just don’t trust her (Adams doesn’t care for her theology - why would he want to expose his people to it at an important moment?) she comes off as wounded and rejected, and the Kansans come off as churlish and closed-minded.  I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people loudly proclaiming that they see through this ruse.

Agreed, Dr. Mabuse - especially since, having worked with Kathy in NV, I find her style when she is put on the spot to be VERY passive agressive, hence the behavior she exhibits here is true to type per my experiences.

It could be she was trying to express the opposite, as a sign of respect for the doctrines she’d come during Holy Week. Then the nature of the interviews and the questions, it probably communicates the opposite. I guess the real test is if she’s willing to reschedule to a less charged time.

It is possible she does not understand this to be problematic and in her mind that she’s trying to do something nice for Kanassas.

I’ve never met her and don’t know her; however, her interviews, public pronouncements, and public displays (e.g. ordination), including the “offer” to visit during Holy Week on ridiculously short notice, indicate to me that at best she lacks emotional intelligence, a qualification that without a doubt ought to be high on the list for any clergy person, let alone a bishop, let alone a presiding bishop. This is not an attack on her, it’s merely my observation, although it is an attack (too strong a word--how about criticism, evaluation, or analysis?) of those who voted for her in the first place.