FT. WORTH: Evangelical Rector Writes Letter to TEC Bishop Over Parish Invasion
FT. WORTH: Evangelical Rector Writes Blistering Letter to TEC Bishop Over Parish Invasion
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 15, 2011
The Rev. Dr. Bill Dickson, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, has written a blistering letter to the rump Bishop of the Diocese of Ft. Worth, Wallis Ohl, accusing him of masquerading as the Bishop of Ft. Worth under the orders of the Episcopal Church. He called "absurd" a letter Ohl had sent the parish inviting them to attend the Parish's annual meeting later in February.
Dickson, an outspoken evangelical theologian in a predominantly Anglo-Catholic diocese, ripped the liberal interloping bishop calling his persistence in taking over the parish "a charade in an effort to confuse the courts and assume control of our churches and and our assets."
In a letter to the parish, Ohl wrote that the diocese and TEC retain the parish under the Dennis Canon arguing that "those buildings belong to generations of Episcopalians who worshipped there in the past and who will worship there in the future.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 15, 2011
The Rev. Dr. Bill Dickson, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, has written a blistering letter to the rump Bishop of the Diocese of Ft. Worth, Wallis Ohl, accusing him of masquerading as the Bishop of Ft. Worth under the orders of the Episcopal Church. He called "absurd" a letter Ohl had sent the parish inviting them to attend the Parish's annual meeting later in February.Dickson, an outspoken evangelical theologian in a predominantly Anglo-Catholic diocese, ripped the liberal interloping bishop calling his persistence in taking over the parish "a charade in an effort to confuse the courts and assume control of our churches and and our assets."
In a letter to the parish, Ohl wrote that the diocese and TEC retain the parish under the Dennis Canon arguing that "those buildings belong to generations of Episcopalians who worshipped there in the past and who will worship there in the future.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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