Bishop elect Mary Glasspool speaking in the NYTimes is saddened that people feel her role in the church is divisive:
The Rev. Mary Glasspool said that she was aware her win troubles some people, but that she believes her election last weekend was mostly ”liberating” for the denomination.
”I’ve had hundreds, probably a thousand, e-mails from people all over the world who don’t know me but who are expressing through the fact of my election a pride in the Episcopal Church,” Glasspool said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
”I’ve committed my life as a life of service to the people of Jesus Christ, and what hurts is the sense that anybody might have that my name or my servanthood could be perceived as divisive.”
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