Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, center, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church in the USA and first woman elected primate in the Anglican Communion, sings a hymn during the Solemn Eucharist, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 at the Anglican cathedral in Zanzibar. Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans, in Tanzania for a closed, six-day conference, traveled by boat from the mainland for a Solemn Eucharist in the only Anglican cathedral on this predominantly Muslim archipelago on the Indian Ocean.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
Anthony Bourdain is an Episcopal bishop? Who knew?
"We are being pushed toward a decision by impatient forces within and outside this church who hunger for clarity. That hunger for clarity at all costs is an anxious response to discomfort in the face of change which characterizes all of life," she said. "The impatience we're now experiencing is an idol a false hope that is unwilling to wait on God for clarity."
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Has God's word changed, Rev. Schori ,, or is it subject to change over time as you say? You want clarity? Why? You obviously can't comprehend what was written long ago.
Here is an example of a hypocrite and heretic! Claiming that holy scripture supports homosexuality is heresy, plain and simple. Homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity, and are contrary to natural law. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
However, many men and women do not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. Unjust discrimination must be avoided. These people are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition. Basically they are called to chastity.
IMO the schism in the Episcopal church is because they have no "adult leadership."
Who would have thunk it?
Somebody get the Discovery Channel on this ASAP!
Anglican ping
What she is saying is that she is going to try to wait them out. She doesn't have enough strength in her convictions to make a stand, regardless of the cost- unless it is to punish those congregations under charge for disagreeing with her. If there was evidence of her courage or lack there of, then we have it now.
"I'm called to be pasror to the whole church"
I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with a revenue drop./s
The dissenters are you and your supporters Rev. Schori and what you are dissenting from is centuries of previous Christian teaching.
It really is as simple as that.
Bishop Shori must have missed those hundreds of places in the Bible where it is emphatically stated that God's word is eternal and never changes. Secular humanism at its best.
Well, if she really wants to repair the damage to the Anglican communion, the best first step she could take would be to quit her job.
Traditional Anglicans are never going to be happy with a woman bishop, especially a feminist bishop whose primary agenda is political, not religious.
Electing her to preside over the Episcopal Church was in exactly the same spirit as electing Vicky Gene Robinson bishop of New Hampshire.
She seems adept at ignoring the part about putting the lawsuits on ice.
They're toast. Get out now.
So, does this mean that the ECUSA which has taken over the property of churches that have left the ECUSA is now in danger of losing that same property and all its other properties if the Anglicans give them the boot?