Chicago Consultation on Gene Robinson
“His courage, intelligence and good humor have been a blessing to our church…”
“His courage, intelligence and good humor have been a blessing to our church…”
Conversation ranged from the proposed Covenant’s chances at General Synod to basic perceptions about the document. Fellows told host Edward Stourton the Covenant as it stands has insurmountable problems.
“We need a new way of managing… We need a new way of leading.”
This week in social networks: Has the Anglican Communion fallen victim to Godwin’s Law? Is “ecclesiastical disobedience” a good thing when it favors something you agree with and a bad thing when it favors something you don’t?
He will be the diocese’s eighth bishop.
The bishop offered no comment after the vote. He merely proceeded with business.
The Covenant is widely seen as one-sided, aimed at punishing certain provinces for supposed failings while allowing all kinds of other concerns to go unheeded. Less attention has been given to the disturbing approach to unity which ignores the problem of evil.
By now it’s clear that Nancy Pelosi will be passing the speaker’s gavel to Ohio’s John Boehner as the Democrats retained a slight majority over in the Senate. Religion wasn’t a huge issue in the 2010 midterms, but a couple of notable races stand out.
It is certainly true that he had significant concerns; but it is equally true that leaders in our church need the freedom to express their convictions forcefully and to seek to influence the church’s course of action. That is a quality of our church that we cherish.
The point of this audaciously anachronistic title is not to claim Jesus as our own (how very un-Episcopalian that would be!), but to inspire us to see how Jesus is found in the many and varied expressions of faith that two thousand years of Christendom has birthed.