The Diocese and Bishop of CNY lampooned on the Midwest Conservative Journal:
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Today, our tour of the unbelievably splendid wonderfulness that is the Episcopal Organization takes us to Central New York where Bishop Gladstone “Skip” Adams celebrates how gosh-darned spiffy everything is these days in a somewhat unusual way:
In the development of the proposed 2009 Diocesan Budget, it became clear that the financial realities of today’s economy are creating challenges for our congregations in terms of assessment and investment revenue. Increased energy costs place additional pressures on already stretched budgets. these challenges obviously impact the financial resources available on the diocesan level for staff, programming and ministry.
The mission of the Diocesan Staff is to provide resources to commissions, committees and congregations so they can minister faithfully in their own communities. This will remain our commitment, however, an anticipated reduction in 2009 revenues has required me to make some difficult and painful decisions.
Gladstone “Skip” is going to take a pay cut? He’s cancelling CNY’s lawsuit? What are you, high? He’s firing diocesan staff.
It’s been pointed out here and there that conservative TEO dioceses aren’t doing that well either which is understandable. When a large ship is sinking, you need to get as far away from it as you possibly can or it will pull you under with it.
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