GENERAL CONVENTION: What Ails Bishop Stacy Sauls Ails Episcopalians
GENERAL CONVENTION: What Ails Bishop Stacy Sauls Ails Episcopalians
A critique of TEC Chief Operating Officer's criticism of the Wall Street Journal on the recent passage of General Convention resolutions
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 21, 2012
"What Ails the Episcopalians?" asked journalist and Episcopalian Jay Akasie in the Wall Street Journal.
"Its numbers and coffers are shrinking, the church votes for pet funerals but offers little to the traditional faithful," he roared.
"Legislators in the lower chamber, the House of Deputies, and the upper chamber, the House of Bishops, discussed such weighty topics as whether to develop funeral rites for dogs and cats, and whether to ratify resolutions condemning genetically modified foods. Both were approved by a vote, along with a resolution to "dismantle the effects of the doctrine of discovery," in effect an apology to Native Americans for exposing them to Christianity.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
A critique of TEC Chief Operating Officer's criticism of the Wall Street Journal on the recent passage of General Convention resolutions
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 21, 2012
"What Ails the Episcopalians?" asked journalist and Episcopalian Jay Akasie in the Wall Street Journal."Its numbers and coffers are shrinking, the church votes for pet funerals but offers little to the traditional faithful," he roared.
"Legislators in the lower chamber, the House of Deputies, and the upper chamber, the House of Bishops, discussed such weighty topics as whether to develop funeral rites for dogs and cats, and whether to ratify resolutions condemning genetically modified foods. Both were approved by a vote, along with a resolution to "dismantle the effects of the doctrine of discovery," in effect an apology to Native Americans for exposing them to Christianity.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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