Some Lowcountry Episcopal congregations are still unsure if they will…[choose to reaffiliate] with the national Episcopal church or [stay with]… Episcopal Bishop Mark Lawrence….
Meanwhile, the presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, said she will come to Charleston on Jan. 25-26 to preside over a convention to elect a provisional bishop to replace Lawrence, who pulled out of the national church last month, taking a majority of the congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina with him. Lawrence has been outspoken in his opposition to same sex blessings and contends the national church has lost its theological way.
“Bishop W. Andrew Waldo, the leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, which represents Episcopalians in the Midlands and upper South Carolina, also has weighed in with an Advent pastoral letter to his congregation lamenting the schism.”
No doubt he is nervous because many of his own parishioners are conservative on this issue and yet he also has to keep Katie Schori and +Sauls happy. He is caught between a rock and a hard place, and it is difficult to feel much sympathy for him.
Good to see, yet again, relatively fair reporting by the secular media – much fairer than one usually gets from liberal christians!
Isn’t this a song…? [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH21LEmfbQ]See here.[/url]
The best line, of course, is:
[blockquote]If I go there will be trouble,
And if I stay it will be double.[/blockquote].
Hmmmmm – who knew The Clash were amongst the orthodox?
Clash know what to do if theres a bit of bovver see? They’ll face this phony bogue Schori