Women should be represented at all levels of the church, the most powerful Anglican in the US has said during a visit to Wales.
Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has been a personal guest of Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan, whose conviction that church leadership should not be a male-only preserve she shares.
The US church’s support for bishops in homosexual relationships has sparked conflict with traditionalists and the communion, which has adherents in more than 160 countries, is threatened with schism.
The only thing I want from her is her frequent flyer points.
KJS is just visiting her newest colony.
carl
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing …
KJS is the best argument against WO since “new sheriff” and “personal litigation assistant” were coined by her. The new koine, as it were.
It must feel delightful to be dogmatically certain of something, finally.
[blockquote] “I think in most provinces issues of life and death are much, much more central – starving people or disease that’s killing not just the Anglicans but everybody else in the nation,†she said.[/blockquote]
Revisionist’s standard red herring argument. Translation: people are starving, so let us carry on with our destructive innovations.
[blockquote] Many Anglican churches in both the United States and Wales have seen a decline in membership in recent decades but she said she believed this could be addressed by returning to the reformation principle of communicating in the language of the surrounding society…We’ve ignored new idioms, new images, new musical styles, shifts in language…[/blockquote]
The liberal experiment has utterly failed. A real scientist should be able to see that empirically. So return to traditional Christianity that offers people what they desperately need? No, give them the same christianity-lite but use hip, new lingo!
[blockquote] She said: “We’re the third largest distribution network in the world after the Romans and the Orthodox. We have an ability to serve people that is unmatched by the market.”[/blockquote]
First, her use of marketing terminology “distribution network” is repulsive. But her trying to glom on her tiny bastardization of Anglicanism onto the overwhelming majority of orthodox Anglicanism is both ridiculous and sad.
Barry’s also desperate to get an (openly) gay bishop in Wales, even as the Anglican church there disappears with each passing year. Truly a Celtic death wish.
RE: “But her trying to glom on her tiny bastardization of Anglicanism onto the overwhelming majority of orthodox Anglicanism is both ridiculous and sad.”
Yeh . . . “We’re the third largest distribution network in the world . . . ”
Who is “we” — like she’s a part of the “we” other than in name only.