Members of the House of Bishops of The Church of the Sudan knew that The Episcopal Church would attempt to make the exclusion of Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire an issue at the Lambeth Conference, and so they prepared the two letters released yesterday before they departed for the England.
“This was our unanimous position that we agreed to,” said the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Mangar Mamur, Bishop of Yirol. As to the timing of their release, he said the Sudanese bishops left that decision to their primate, Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul.
For TEC listening only goes one way.
These Sudanese bishops appear to be the real deal. My hat’s off to them.
[blockquote]Bishop Mangar said he has not yet received an invitation to the wine and cheese party on Saturday night organized by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.[/blockquote]
I’ve noticed bishops from areas where persecution and martyrdom are a ever present danger from Islam have a clearer grasp of Christianity than those from western countries.