Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Commentary
The following post is republished by permission from our friend Dee Parson’s blog, The Wartburg Watch. While the piece focuses on evangelical churches, the underlying point is a good one: when will the Episcopal Church quit killing itself with cheap grace? “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church.
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We’ve previously covered the appalling situation at St. James Texarkana, marked by an feckless, arrogant, and interpersonally challenged rector, David Halt; allegations of retaliation by Halt and bishop George Sumner against former parochial vicar Richard Daly over the latter’s opposition to the sexual harassment of a woman connected with the
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Didn’t the church just promise to do better on issues of impaired clergy after the Heather Cook debacle? If so, why are Michael Curry and Todd Ousley wringing their hands and saying they don’t know what to do about allegations of alcohol abuse by Bishop Prince Singh? Earlier, we wrote
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A favorite line among my fellow clergy is, “We are a resurrection people.” That’s true, but it seems to me that misses an important point. In every instance, living into resurrection requires some action on pur part. In other words, without action there’s no resurrection. Consider the story of Lazarus,
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