Skip's new church

SCHENECTADY, NY: Episcopal church's split with diocese may open doors to gays

from VirtueOnline

Does anyone in the DCNY remember when Skip was trying to get visitations in the DCNY moved further out because it was just so much work to visit all the churches in the diocese in the space of a year?  Perhaps losing three church's and closing others has loosened up his schedule. ed.

SCHENECTADY, NY: Episcopal church's split with conservative office may open doors to gays
Old church takes bold new step

By James M. Odato
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Old-church-takes-bold-new-step-3433929.php#ixzz1qF5mrUbK
March 25, 2012

Central New York Episcopal Bishop Skip Adams, background center, greets congregation members following service at St. George's Episcopal Church on Sunday, March 25, 2012 in Schenectady, NY. Central New York Episcopal Bishop Skip Adams celebrated the mass. Adams is assuming episcopal oversight of St. George's from the Albany Episcopal Diocese under Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight under the Eiscopla Church rules. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union) Photo: Paul Buckowski

The historic St. George's Church in Schenectady's historic Stockade neighborhood made some notable history on Sunday.

The parish had its first Mass under a new arrangement never before tried in the Episcopal Church in which a unit of a conservatively led diocese breaks away to be coached by a more liberal one.

The goal is to open the church to more ideas, such as allowing gays to become pastors or feel more welcome or the words of the Scripture to be read for modern interpretation.

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