Instead of attempting to remove the diocese from the Episcopal Church, Lawrence proposes non-participation as a “protest” using language that combines civil disobedience (we will do this until the Episcopal Church repents) and psychology (we are creating boundaries). What it really means is a decision to isolate.
Asked to frame his perspective on The Episcopal Church’s place in the Anglican Communion, Bishop-elect Scott Benhase says, “God will ask us to wade deep into troubled waters with both friend and stranger.”
The Rev. Scott A. Benhase, rector of St. Alban’s Church in Washington, D. C., has been elected Bishop of Georgia on the second ballot.
June Butler (Grandmère Mimi) posted news that Bishop Michael Smith, the present bishop of North Dakota, and one of the seven bishops who recently traveled to Lambeth Palace to meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been entered the discernment process for the upcoming election in the Diocese of Louisiana where Bishop Charles Jenkins is retiring.
“Bishops Working for a Just World,” seeks universal heath-care coverage and solutions to domestic and global poverty and the environmental crisis. Bishops make annual trips to the nation’s capital to advocate for specific legislation or changes to legislation.
A rather over the top article was run in “The Nation” a Nigerian newspaper over the weekend saying in part “…anyone who does not think that Akinola’s Primacy is a resounding success will have an uphill task for a better comparison, as the Church has never had it so good.”
“I have great difficulty with this decision,” the Bishop added. “‘This is a man that according to the courts was found guilty of masterminding a horrendous crime. He was given a life sentence with a minimum of 27 years. He should have had to abide by that sentence and to abridge that does not
seems to have been a just thing to have done.”
The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Bishop Marc Andrus and published his answers to their three questions this weekend.
The bishop uses language in a way which abuses LGBT Anglicans. He categorises some of us as ‘non-celibate homosexuals’. This is equivalent to calling married people ‘non-celibate heterosexuals’. It is a deeply offensive way of describing people.
Bishops Gene Robinson and Jane Holmes Dixon joined the Rev. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance this week on his radio program State of Belief.