The Presiding Bishop at the halfway mark - Fisking the Left
The Presiding Bishop at the halfway mark - Fisking the Left
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 2, 2011
George Clifford, a priest in the Diocese of North Carolina, is a visiting professor of ethics and public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School, and blogs at Ethical Musings. He has written a piece looking at the Presiding Bishop's tenure now that she is roughly at the halfway mark. He revisits the agenda he laid out for her and points the way forward. VOL believes Mr. Clifford's analysis and his projections for the future of TEC are deeply flawed.
CLIFFORD: In my original essay, I sketched a fork at which I saw TEC then posed: One road involves continuing efforts to placate those who contend that views about the compatibility of same sex unions with Christianity constitute a litmus test of Christian identity. Tragically, this road only leads to growing frustration and animosity. Those who would make sexual ethics a litmus test have drawn a line in concrete, unwilling to change and unwilling to accept big tent Anglicanism. No middle ground on which to find reconciliation currently exists. Denying the inevitability of a split within Anglicanism will not prevent that division but will seriously dissipate the precious gifts and energies of Episcopalian Christians.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 2, 2011
George Clifford, a priest in the Diocese of North Carolina, is a visiting professor of ethics and public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School, and blogs at Ethical Musings. He has written a piece looking at the Presiding Bishop's tenure now that she is roughly at the halfway mark. He revisits the agenda he laid out for her and points the way forward. VOL believes Mr. Clifford's analysis and his projections for the future of TEC are deeply flawed.CLIFFORD: In my original essay, I sketched a fork at which I saw TEC then posed: One road involves continuing efforts to placate those who contend that views about the compatibility of same sex unions with Christianity constitute a litmus test of Christian identity. Tragically, this road only leads to growing frustration and animosity. Those who would make sexual ethics a litmus test have drawn a line in concrete, unwilling to change and unwilling to accept big tent Anglicanism. No middle ground on which to find reconciliation currently exists. Denying the inevitability of a split within Anglicanism will not prevent that division but will seriously dissipate the precious gifts and energies of Episcopalian Christians.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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