You’d think that, by now, parishes in The Episcopal Church would be tired of pulling the whole “So-and-so is a terrorist, so we’re barring them from the church” routine. Yet, even with the storm brewing in the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the profound damage to parishes that comes from engaging in this behavior,…
Inclusion in the Catholic church will be the death knell for the already imploding Episcopal church.
At a time when same-sex marriage is at risk, and one member of the Supreme Court has expressly said he would like to undo legal protections, the Episcopal Church continues to fumble its response. That includes its failure to speak out on the recent nightclub shooting in Colorado. So far, the Colorado shooting has received…
You have to hand it to the Episcopal Church: it may be a tiny denomination, but it generates heroic volumes of paper. Mountains. Heaps. Rivers of paper. But buried deep within this year’s Blue Book are the results of a survey on abuse towards LGBTQ+ persons that is both alarming and appalling. The study is part…
You know, you can’t make these things up. In the resolutions now before the SBC convention in Anaheim, we see in the eighth resolution several notable and ugly things, including a horrific dig at the LGBTQ+ community. The resolution starts of innocuously enough with the title, “On the Imago Dei and the Helpful Content Submitted…
Schism begets schism. That’s the reality that now faces dissident “Anglicans” in North America, following a Pastoral Letter from American Convocation of Anglicans in North America (ACNA) bishops that suggested tolerance, if not acceptance, of LGBTQ members. (ACNA comprises groups that have left the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church, and is not…