[Saturday] morning Bishop Alexander, on a construction site rebuilding a house in central New Orleans, had this to say:
“The conversations have been frank but productive. I’m confident that we will emerge from this meeting having found a place that is acceptable to both the majority of the Anglican Communion and the majority of the Episcopal Church.”
This guy is suing people who left his church without so much as a paperclip of TEC property. Isn’t it nice that he can do good works photo ops for the newspeople.
He is whistling in the dark. The solution may be acceptable to Episcopalians but not to the Anglican Communion. What in the world is he talking about?
All depends on who he views the “majority” in the Anglican Communion is, doesn’t it?
Mr. Fountain,
The “newspeople” in this particular scenario was the editor of the diocesan newletter…and not some gang of national media. I think it was meant exclusively for the diocese, and not for public consumption.
I’m in the diocese of Atlanta, and while I disagree with +Alexander on all the issues, I have to say that he does respect the conservatives in this diocese, does not trouble them over their views, does not allow same sex marriage, and was transparent in his dealings with the parishes that have left, unless something has happened of which I’m unaware.
So just who is +Alexander suing?
Apparently, we in the Anglican Communion live in multiple intersecting universes. This bishop cannot be living in the universe I find myself in.
Shumanbeam:
http://anglican-church-ptc.org/index.php
Check there. Call or visit them if you want more details. But it is a fact that he is suing individual leaders of that CANA congregation, who left all the property behind.
Thanks Mr. Fountain…
I’ll go there right now. If he is suing someone, it would seem quite out of character.
Mr. Fountain…
I don’t doubt that you saw something, but I couldn’t find it on the church website link you posted, and I haven’t heard anything from any other priest in the diocese about this. I have a friend who’s an APA priest in this area, and he has contacts with the folks at Peachtree City. I’ll ask him if he’s heard anything. Once again, I don’t mean to cast any shadows your way, but it just doesn’t make sense to sue them…what would the diocese or +Alexander have to gain? On what basis could they even sue? Those folks are gone, and they didn’t take anything with them.
If this suing bit is true I would hope the Bishop would lose his cassock on this one.
+JNA is a class act. Fountain has clearly never been in the same room with him, let alone studied with him or served under him. I have. Have a conversation with conservatives in ATL. They’ll tell you the same thing.