![]() ![]() I'll say that again: We Christians like to feel holy when we sin. You see, we Christians like to feel holy when we sin. and it is particularly helpful to hate a group that you can get the clergy to agree with you on. because people like having another group to hate. Here it is: Why is it that churches will split over homosexuality, but not over adultery? over homosexuality, but not over lying sexual infidelity or "sexually inappropriate" behavior by the Pastor theft spousal abuse and on and on? I'll tell you why. there are plenty of places you can find that if you want. I mean, I could get deeply scriptural here, but I won't. At a time when many churches are taking the stand of exclusivity, as if the church is some sort of country club that needs to keep out the rabble, and in some cases deciding to not decide, the Episcopal church has taken a stand, that I consider to be in line with the theology of Jesus Christ: That all are welcome. I, for one, applaud the action of the Episcopal church. Many Parishes left after the consecration of the gay Bishop, and over the past year, dozens parishes had elected to leave the church with Jefferts Schori's ascension and the determination of the national church body to continue to bless same-sex unions and refusal to exclude gay members. That did it! The conservative elements had had all they were going to take. ![]() In 2006, a woman, Bishop Kathrine Jefferts Schiori, of Nevada, was elected as Presiding Bishop for the entire American church. was elected and consecrated as the Bishop for New Hampshire. church started ordaining women as Priests, Next, in 2003, an openly gay Priest, The Reverend Gene Robinson. ![]() In recent years, the Episcopal church has done some things that don't sit well with it's more conservative members. Why? Because various congregations in the United States want to use the word of God to codify their bigotry. 1872), in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has elected to leave the American Episcopal church, and enter into association with an ultra-conservative Anglican church body from Nigeria. It was reported, three days ago, in the Washington Post, that Colorado's largest Episcopal Church, Grace Church & St. This has caused a great deal of unrest in American church, as you might imagine. ![]() You see, the American branch of the Anglican communion has taken a courageous, and wholly Christian stance (in my view) by not only ordaining women, but electing openly gay people to serve as priests. A Church body that is in full communion with my own. and I'll tell you what it is: What has me bothered is the continuing unrest in the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which we refer to, in the United States, as the Episcopal Church. ![]()
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