In many ways, the Episcopal church is a microcosm of the United States, with congregations often split over social issues. Lowell Grisham himself has never been hesitant to speak his mind on social issues, and addresses them in his various newspaper columns that he writes.
For Lowell Grisham, Fayetteville is much like his boyhood home of Oxford, Mississippi, which translates into a great comfort for him. Previous to his seven years in Fayetteville, Grisham served for several years in Fort Smith.
Sitting down with the soft-spoken Grisham in his book-lined office at the church, one cannot fail to be impressed with the care with which he answers questions. This being an election year in which “moral issues” seemed to motivate many voters, it is only natural to ask if he feels that some moral issues have not been adequately addressed during the election.
Kind of strange that the newspaper is republishing an interview from 2005 in 2012. Is there a reason, maybe a local issue?
Sigh. I came to faith and was baptized at St. Paul’s; filled the first two rows with barely sober fraternity brothers for the event.
Seems Grisham proved prophetically wrong. The church did split, there isn’t an influx, and what’s left is a bad shape.
His comments regarding evangelicals are insulting and arrogant.
Anither put down of the great enemy of fundametalism. The writer is obviously glad he is not like them. Why is the reporter surprised to find this kind of thinking in TEC?
Yeah, it have been a slow news day, if you have to republish something that is almost 6 years old.