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+Jack Shows His Hand

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Thinking Anglicans
Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Fort Worth: the bishop writes

Bishop Jack Iker has written 10 Reasons Why Now Is the Time to Realign.

This appears in the current issue of the diocesan newsletter, Forward in Mission. The complete newsletter is available here as a PDF.

The first URL above appears to be only temporary, so the full text is reproduced below the fold.

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Posted by Simon Sarmiento on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 4:21pm BST
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Katie Sherrod blogs 10 Reasons Why Now Is NOT the Time to Realign.
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[identity profile] dewittar.livejournal.com 2008-09-30 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you catch the response article on The Lead over at Episcopal Cafe? Pretty good.

[identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com 2008-09-30 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That's Katie's post referenced above.

[identity profile] dewittar.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Gawd but I love her. I swear I'd have her babies.

[identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
She's attends All Saint's in Fort Worth. That's my old parish from before +Jack purged a lot of clergy (funny how so many parishes turned over completely in '03). It's one of the parishes that +Jack isn't taking out of TEC.

[identity profile] timcub.livejournal.com 2008-09-30 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, he's GONE.

[identity profile] friarjohn.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
The problem is that he SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO BE BISHOP TO START WITH!

He OR +Akerman.

[identity profile] friarjohn.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Damn Donatist thieves and liars.
This isn't (just) Hubris, this is almost blasphemous heresy.

[identity profile] blt4success66.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
...one question that plagues me as I journey out of the closet...

If the Episcopal Church is in such disarray over the election of openly homosexual bishops and "the Church" (as in the world wide Christian church, not just the Episcopalians) cannot accept homosexuality, which is a condemned practice in the scriptures, then what hope do we have of an eternal salvation if we are in violation of the what the big "church" preaches?

It plagues me daily.

[identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
The Episcopal Church is NOT in disarray over +Gene's election. 10 of 110 might be. 4 out of 110 bishops in the TEC are upset enough to leave.

Try as I may, I can't find one reference to homosexuality in the Gospels. Your 'salvation' question doesn't worry me. I have no issue with it. Though one of the two priests who have commented so far can probably explain it better than I can. (I can think of four Anglican priests on my FriendsList right off, and a slew of seminarians and clergy of other churches. most of the crowd are Anglican, Lutheran, or Unitarian.)

Try this.
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