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According to an article in the Kyrkans Tidning, the newspaper of the Church of Sweden: ECUSA bishop emeritus John Shelby Spong is such a poor theologian that even the Church of Sweden has declined his offer to give a seminar in Gothenburg this Fall … but that hasn’t stopped the [Svenska Kyrkan’s] publishing house (Verbum) from pubishing a Swedish edition of his newest book, A New Christianity for a New World, or [Swedish] bishop Claes-Bertil Ytterberg (of Västerås) from writing its foreword.Mikael Ringlander, who heads the seminar series, told…Kyrkans Tidning (Church News) that he, as well as theologian Ola Sigurdson...

[I think those who have left ECUSA, or are considering, will understand this unhappy piece. How worse can things get? Clearly worse than we have seen. --sionnsar] Even if the title A grief observed had not already been employed, I would use it, for what I have written is about a grief, the dying and perhaps eventually even death of a loved one—the Church of Sweden, in which I was ordained a priest almost thirty-five years ago. It is a grief observed, as if I were standing apart at a distance from what actually happens. It is as if I...