In a pastoral letter to his diocese, the Bishop of Albany has stated his refusal to live within Resolution B012 (Marriage Rites for the Whole Church) passed at General Convention last summer.
How we take care and accept each other is the real stewardship that will grow our church communities. There are funerals every day on this planet and yet, the one funeral we all need to attend we don’t. We need to bury yesterday and let the “status quo” rest in peace.
“We have Pharisees among us, people who watch us to see where we have faults and where we don’t follow the law according to their interpretations of it. We also have a model that we are urged to emulate, the man Jesus, who preached love and compassion rather than legalism and often shallow piety.”
A conversation about Pop Culture and Generations with special guest Kevin Matthews
The Living Church recently published a piece bemoaning the emergence of episcopal elections where all the candidates were women. In this satirical response, Priest, podcaster, and author Jordan Haynie Ware imagines the thought process of a sympathizer with that article’s premise.