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Post by angli_fan on Dec 17, 2006 23:37:52 GMT -5
[from All Things Considered] Katherine Jefferts-Schori, the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, is the first woman to hold that office. She started out not as a clergywoman, but as an oceanographer. She discusses matters of science and faith, as well as current controversies in the church over sexuality.www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6638780 (Approx. 8:30) |
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Post by anglicansablaze on Dec 18, 2006 10:32:08 GMT -5
Her interview was a study in misinformation. For example, what she said about the church as alway having had gay priests was very misleading. Until the 1980s rare was the bishop who knowingly ordained a practicing homosexual. Candidates with homosexual predilictions might be ordained if they were celibate - not involved in a homosexual relationship or casual homosexual activities. The 1998 Lambeth Conference affirmed that homosexual practice is incompatible with the Bible. This has been the position of the Christian Church for its entire history.
Episcopalians are not divided over whether they should help the suffering and those in need. They are divided over how they should view the Bible, God, and Jesus Christ. They are divided over whether they should financially support local churches, dioceses and a national church, that are increasingly apostate. To suggest that Episcopalians committed to biblical orthodoxy are focusing upon a particular set of concerns in order to avoid ministering to the last and the least is a sterling example of the propagandist's "big lie" - a red herring intended to divert attention from the real issues dividing The Episcopal Church and an attempt to portray those dissenting from the theological and moral innovations of The Episcopal Church in an extremely negative light.
The interview did not address the new Presiding Bishop's denial of core beliefs of the Christian faith.
NPR simply provided Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori another pulpit from which she could spout her radical modernist rhetoric. What is going on in The Episcopal Church is as much a struggle over who defines what is happening as anything else. NPR with its liberal leanings clearly took sides in this struggle. It was hardly balanced reporting!
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