Recap of recent secession events

For those who don't follow the news about the secessionist movement in the Episcopal Church (TEC), here's a helpful recap of recent controversies by The Episcopal Majority.

The big news is that the arch-conservative former bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin recently led a majority of his flock out of the Episcopal Church.  He has been changing the locks at loyalist mission parishes and purporting to fire loyalists priests who wouldn't go along with his usurpations.

Personally I wish the national church would ride into court in Fresno with lawyers blazing, seeking to evict the former bishop and his fellow squatters from church property and to reclaim rightful control of the diocese's assets. But litigation is a tricky thing, and so until events prove otherwise, I'm going to assume that the Presiding Bishop and her lawyers knows what they're doing and are waiting for the right moment to take action.

Comments

[johnthechristian]

In other words, change the faith, innovate on Ancient Doctrine, then screw people when they object.

Very Christian ;)

[bls]

"Screw people when they object"? Is that what San Joaquin is doing? "Objecting"?

Gee, I always thought "objecting" involved reason, discussion, argument, and other such ordinary kinds of action. You know: working with the system. You know: the things that TEC has been doing for 40 years around the issue of homosexual people.

I wasn't aware that "objecting" involved taking things that weren't yours, resigning your position and then using it to fire people you don't like (on Christmas day), and generally behaving like a spoiled child. And what about the "innovation" of deciding to report to a Bishop with whom you agree, rather than your own? I guess that doesn't count.

Nice try, though. Using the word "objecting" certainly makes it sound as if San Joaquin is the wronged party here. And spin is everything in our modern world, as we all know by now....