GOOD AND BAD

From the Midwest Conservative Journal:

Thursday, October 23, 2008

There's border-crossing and then there's border-crossing:

The Rt. Rev. David C. Jones, Bishop Suffragan of Virginia, has accepted an invitation to serve as a “consulting bishop” for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh as it seeks to reorganize following the vote by the majority of clergy and lay deputies at diocesan convention to leave the denomination. The new position is effective immediately.

Kind of like what CANA is doing in Virginia. No, wait, that's the bad kind.

In a similar development, the Rt. Rev. Sam B. Hulsey, Bishop of Northwest Texas from 1980 to 1997, confirmed that he has participated in preliminary discussions about serving as the provisional bishop of Fort Worth in the event that the majority of delegates to the annual convention on Nov. 15 votes to leave The Episcopal Church. No formal offer to serve in that capacity had been made yet, he said.

Preliminary discussions with who, Sam? Kate?

“I believe my strongest gift is the gift of encouragement,” Bishop Jones said in a news release.

That and the ability to follow orders.

“Throughout my entire ordained ministry I have been a listener and a guide.

And I'm great at following orders.

I now offer that to the Episcopalians of Pittsburgh to use as they see fit in rebuilding their diocese. I do not come with any predetermined expectations.”

But I LOVE following orders.

Drawing on his work with congregations in the Diocese of Virginia that sought to reorganize after the majority voted to leave The Episcopal Church,

Kind of like CANA...no, wait, I confused the two again.

Bishop Jones will provide the diocesan standing committee in Pittsburgh with advice on administration, clergy deployment, and pastoral support for congregations.

He'll also be holding a seminar for all Pittsburgh clergy on following orders.

He will continue to serve as Bishop Suffragan of Virginia

Where CANA has...oh, for crying out loud, Johnson, get it right!

and will maintain his residence there.

And the objection to "African" bishops is what again?

He may on occasion be asked by the standing committee to perform sacramental acts in Pittsburgh.

In the Episcopal Organization, that's anything from confirmations to following orders.

posted by Christopher Johnson at MCJ