Wow, wow, wow. The large and vibrant Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia is now an Anglican cathedral. Its rector, Father Mynns, is as of today a bishop serving under the Primate of ... Nigeria. Virginia, you will recall, led the Confederacy, and the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was an Episcopalian fellow named Robert E. Lee. You might have heard of him.
We live in interesting times.
Congratulations Bishop Mynns
Thursday June 29, 2006
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The American renegades, in fact, are distracting the Africans from focusing on poverty by getting them to focus on American issues like gays and women priests.
As has been brought up before, one could argue that it is the progressives that are doing all the distracting. What's more important -- the poor or elevating a gay bishop?>
I can't celebrate further evidence that the ECUSA and Anglican Communion are splitsville, so I don't think congratulations are in order. But I understand why those who believe the ECUSA is moving in a sinful direction are rejoicing.
On Wednesday, I attended a "wrap-up" meeting about the convention at my own local church.
As I've described elsewhere, my church evolved over several decades from a dying urban church to a vital, wonderful institution that was open to all sorts of people -- skeptics and believers, Republicans and Democrats, ex-Catholics and ex- other Protestant denominations, people of different races and ages, and so forth.
After intial discomfort with openly gay members, our rector grew to welcome them such an extent that he ended up testifying before Congress on the Biblical basis for supporting civil unions.
I want to belong to a church that strives to include gays and lesbians, in spite of my occasional personal discomfort, because, being human, I'm not prejudice-free.
But, to me, this is an evolutionary process. It cannot, and should not, be forced on conservatives by simple (or even not so simple) majority vote by liberal Episcopalians who currently have the upper hand in the ECUSA. Sometimes communication may be easier after a divorce, but I don't believe it will be in this case, and I think that's a shame.>
What's more important -- the poor or elevating a gay bishop?
The ECUSA elevated a *human*.
It was the conservatives who made an issue of his sexuality.>
Imprisoning homosexuals is immoral, and such Bishops that lobby governments to imprison homosexuals and anyone who disagrees with that ruling, are bearing evil fruit, and are not suited to lead in a Christian community.>
"average Anglican who is a black woman under 30, earns two dollars a day and is evangelical"
I presume we're talking about a Third World Anglican here - most likely in Africa? In that case, sexual issues are far from being unimportant (as Bishop Katharine suggests) to her, because she is directly under threat from AIDS.>
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