Speaking at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains women to the priesthood, priest and conservative firebrand Calvin Robinson described women\u2019s ordination as a \u201ctool of entryism\u201d for critical theories about race and sex. Organizers of the conference, sponsored by the Anglican Church in North America\u2019s Diocese of South Carolina, had asked Robinson to address the topic \u201cCritical Theory: Antithetical to the Gospel?\u201d<\/p>\n
In response to Robinson\u2019s address, organizers removed him from a panel on the conference\u2019s final day….<\/p>\n
Mere Anglicanism\u2019s director, the Rev. Jeffrey Miller, and Bishop Chip Edgar of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, met with Robinson after his presentation. He compared the meeting to being called into a school headmaster\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Miller disputed Robinson\u2019s account. \u201cFor the concluding panel discussion of the 2024 Mere Anglicanism Conference, Father Calvin Robinson was pulled from participating not because of his views on women\u2019s ordination, but because he failed to address in his plenary presentation the topic that was assigned to him,\u201d said the Rev. Jeffrey Miller, director of the conference, in a post-conference statement. \u201cFather Robinson was not asked to leave the conference, but remained through its conclusion and was paid his full honorarium.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a pastoral letter issued soon after the conference, Edgar described Robinson\u2019s remarks as \u201cinexcusably provocative, and completely lacking in charity and pastoral consideration of the people in attendance \u2014 especially the many women clergy both of our diocese and others who attended.\u201d<\/p>\n
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