by their fruits
good opinion piece, liberal christianity is paying for its sins from today’s l.a. times
You want to have gay sex? Be a female bishop? Change God’s name to Sophia? Go ahead. The just-elected Episcopal presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, is a one-woman combination of all these things, having voted for Robinson, blessed same-sex couples in her Nevada diocese, prayed to a female Jesus at the Columbus convention and invited former Newark, N.J., bishop John Shelby Spong, famous for denying Christ’s divinity, to address her priests…
So this is the liberal Christianity that was supposed to be the Christianity of the future: disarray, schism, rapidly falling numbers of adherents, a collapse of Christology and national meetings that rival those of the Modern Language Assn. for their potential for cheap laughs. And they keep telling the Catholic Church that it had better get with the liberal program — ordain women, bless gay unions and so forth — or die. Sure.
Silently I tremble on the inside wondering how far my own secret opinions, my own sensibilities have to go before they no longer take any part in the falling world. I see that I began nowhere near ‘orthodox christian’ morality, much less theology of that sort, rather it has taken all these years to even begin to understand what that means. Sad story. –RC
Comment by roger contentionis — Friday, July 14, 2006 @