Episcopal Church U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written her fellow Anglican primates worldwide regarding the planned May 15 consecration of bishop-elect Mary Glasspool, an openly gay partnered priest.
She encourages further dialog, explains that related issues will be further considered and, apparently responding indirectly to objections from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Primate of Ireland Archbishop Alan Harper, conservative British Anglicans and others, says:
Know that this is not the decision of one person, or a small group of people. It represents the mind of a majority of elected leaders in The Episcopal Church, lay, clergy, and bishops, who have carefully considered the opinions and feelings of other members of the Anglican Communion as well as the decades-long conversations within this Church. It represents a prayerful and thoughtful decision, made in good faith that this Church is ‘working out its salvation in fear and trembling, believing that God is at work in us’ (Philippians 2:12-13).
[HT: The Lead]
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