The post-General Convention dis-excretio continues (click here for part one), and I have a lot of food to share:
Rev. Winnie Varghese, the Voting Secretary of the House of Deputies, presents a tour de force here.
The Rt. Rev. Dean Wolfe, Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas and the Vice President of the House of Bishops, responds to attacks on The Episcopal Church in the Wall Street Journal.
The Rev. Matthew Lawrence shares the hilariously-titled "Ross Douthat is a Fruitfly."
[Read Douthat's article here].
Diana Butler Bass responds to Douthat. The question is not: Can liberal Christianity be saved? The question is: Can liberal churches save Christianity?
Jon Meacham, Episcopalian and an Executive Editor at Random House, also responds to attacks on The Episcopal Church with a beautifully written non-apologetic apologia:
"the central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude"
I feel proud to be an Episcopalian when I see my fellow Episcopalians more concerned with our witness to the Gospel and our ministry of presence in this broken world than the number of butts we have in the pews on Sunday.
And Varghese is right: those who have left the church over battles of inclusion and the Gospel "are the ones that should go."
So what if we have fewer butts in the pews? God willing, those who remain are ready to get their hands dirty healing this world.
Rev. Winnie Varghese, the Voting Secretary of the House of Deputies, presents a tour de force here.
The Rt. Rev. Dean Wolfe, Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas and the Vice President of the House of Bishops, responds to attacks on The Episcopal Church in the Wall Street Journal.
The Rev. Matthew Lawrence shares the hilariously-titled "Ross Douthat is a Fruitfly."
[Read Douthat's article here].
Diana Butler Bass responds to Douthat. The question is not: Can liberal Christianity be saved? The question is: Can liberal churches save Christianity?
Jon Meacham, Episcopalian and an Executive Editor at Random House, also responds to attacks on The Episcopal Church with a beautifully written non-apologetic apologia:
"the central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude"
I feel proud to be an Episcopalian when I see my fellow Episcopalians more concerned with our witness to the Gospel and our ministry of presence in this broken world than the number of butts we have in the pews on Sunday.
And Varghese is right: those who have left the church over battles of inclusion and the Gospel "are the ones that should go."
So what if we have fewer butts in the pews? God willing, those who remain are ready to get their hands dirty healing this world.
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