Tuesday, July 17, 2012


GC2012: The Episcopal Church Boldly Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before

GC2012: The Episcopal Church Boldly Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before

By Michael Heidt
www.virtueonline.org
July 13, 2012

The 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, one of the largest bi-cameral legislative bodies in the world, is over. What did it achieve? The church's leader, Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, gave the world a clue in her sermon at the event's opening Eucharist. "We must boldly go," she preached, "where Jesus has gone before."

She would have done better to stick with the Star Trek original because by end of business on Thursday, July 12, the Episcopal Church had passed a series of resolutions taking the small denomination into uncharted space.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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