New bishops in the Episcopal Church should be vetted for their political orthodoxy, a paper released by the House of Bishops\u2019 Standing Committee on Pastoral Development has proposed. The call for conformity came in a 29 April 2013 letter released under the signature of the Rt. Rev. James Waggoner, Jr., Bishop of Spokane and was sent to the church\u2019s bishops and standing committees.<\/p>\n
However some of the questions were \u201cso egregious\u201d\u009d and so \u201cthin in its substance as to be silly\u201d\u009d. Dr. Ephraim Radner of the Anglican Communion Institute told Anglican Ink.<\/p>\n
In his covering letter Bishop Waggoner wrote the committee had noticed \u201ctwo extremes\u201d\u009d in recent years of \u201cintense scrutiny\u201d\u009d and \u201cuninformed consent\u201d\u009d in the consent process for newly elected bishops. The ten questions offered by the committee were designed \u201cto be an additional resource in your decision-making process.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n