Report: New Dean at Nashotah “mending” strained relations with TEC Bishop
I don't know how accurate this article is but hopefully the reporter has it wrong:
Editor's Note: Perhaps I can be of help here. I went to a seminary that is quite a bit smaller than Virginia Seminary and understand the strain that can be on a seminary that has less than the financial resources of a place like VTS. While I expect that a response to that statement can be some variation on God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, Nashotah House has sought to be an orthodox seminary that sends graduates to the ACNA and the pecusa. While Fr. Matt and I have both left pecusa, I do have some sympathy for those orthodox who remain in pecusa because they believe that is where God has called them to serve. So, an orthodox dean, in order to fulfill a sense of mission to and within pecusa, would want to be on good terms with the bishop of the diocese where the seminary resides. It's hard enough to place orthodox priests in pecusa; the work doesn't need to be made more difficult by straining further relationships with bishops who are in a position to receive Nashotah grads.
Salmon succeeds the Rev. Robert Munday, Nashotah House's longest-serving dean, who returned to the classroom after 10 years at its helm. Munday was considered by some as overly sympathetic to the Anglican Church in North America, a breakaway province founded in 2009 over theological differences, including the Episcopal Church's ordination of gay and lesbian clergy.I'm all for people and institutions staying in TEC in order to resist the present drift but why on earth would an orthodox dean of an orthodox seminary need or want to "mend" a relationship with a heretic bishop? Let it be strained. Strain it further.
Salmon has already reached out to mend the relationship with Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee Bishop Steven Miller, a relationship that had been strained during Munday's tenure.
And observers say the new dean wants to avoid having the seminary, which has both Episcopal and ACNA students, as well as bishops on its board, being labeled in one camp or another...more
Editor's Note: Perhaps I can be of help here. I went to a seminary that is quite a bit smaller than Virginia Seminary and understand the strain that can be on a seminary that has less than the financial resources of a place like VTS. While I expect that a response to that statement can be some variation on God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, Nashotah House has sought to be an orthodox seminary that sends graduates to the ACNA and the pecusa. While Fr. Matt and I have both left pecusa, I do have some sympathy for those orthodox who remain in pecusa because they believe that is where God has called them to serve. So, an orthodox dean, in order to fulfill a sense of mission to and within pecusa, would want to be on good terms with the bishop of the diocese where the seminary resides. It's hard enough to place orthodox priests in pecusa; the work doesn't need to be made more difficult by straining further relationships with bishops who are in a position to receive Nashotah grads.
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