Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Fantasy World of Episcopal House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson

The Fantasy World of Episcopal House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson

News Analysis

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 9, 2011

House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson says the Episcopal Church is "stuck in an organizational model" that is "a bureaucracy with rules, roles, and relationships that we accept as our social reality."

"The church needs to be a movement. Right now we are an organization. We have a critical mass of 2 million ministers," Anderson said during the 2011 Kellogg Lectures delivered at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.

Anderson said in her first lecture that "since we believe in a dynamic God, and by our baptism we participate with God in the quest to reconcile the world," the baptized "are called upon to ... create the change that we believe will bring about a reconciled world."

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