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About the TREC church-wide “town meeting”

October 3, 2014 No Comments

The TREC town meeting was last night. It is taking a while to digest the implications. You can watch it again on-line.

General Seminary’s besieged dean issues his first statement

October 3, 2014 8 Comments

Let me start as I will end this section: I support our LGBT community without condition. Period.

General Seminary Update

October 3, 2014 1 Comment

Here is an update on the goings on at General Seminary and further reflection on what the situation means for the rest of the church.

Claiming a religious exemption from things like birth control and gay marriage is a favorite cause of people on that side of the Culture War, but to say “my sandbox, my rules” –which has roots in the white only private schools and clubs that sprung up in the wake of the end of forced segregation–really a plausible argument to protect religious freedom?

Plain-Speaking

October 3, 2014 No Comments

Friday, October 3, 2014 – Proper 21, Year Two [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including today’s scripture

A treatise on TREC

October 2, 2014 2 Comments

The members of TREC—those who helped launch it and those who have participated in its processes—deserve to be congratulated, because during this process a consensus has begun to emerge about the type of church the Episcopal Church must become

Education publication speaks with seminary accreditation group about GTS

October 2, 2014 5 Comments

Colleen Flaherty has written a story on the crisis at General Seminary for Inside Higher Ed that includes the first public comment on the situation from the Association of Theological Schools. ATS accredits seminaries and degree programs.

Board offers to meet with faculty, GTS alumni call for investigation

October 2, 2014 2 Comments

The General Seminary has posted a letter from Bishop Mark Sisk, chair of the board of trustees, to eight striking faculty members whose employment the

I am not the exception: Abusive behavior in the church

October 2, 2014 7 Comments

Laurie Brock, who blogs at Dirty Sexy Ministry, has written a heartfelt essay that was occasioned by the current controversy at General Seminary, but that

Power and authority–at GTS and in the church

October 1, 2014 8 Comments

by Jesse Zink On June 6, 1952, the trustees of the University of the South considered a report urging them to admit black students. By

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