tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25560965.post1240407964332998343..comments2023-05-05T00:45:20.298-07:00Comments on Caught by the Light: Measuring ConsequencesBr Richard Edward Helmer BSGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04603206783767329399noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25560965.post-5674847605141946192010-05-29T18:55:13.716-07:002010-05-29T18:55:13.716-07:00Thanks, oldmiler, for stopping by.
Yes, the more ...Thanks, oldmiler, for stopping by.<br /><br />Yes, the more I consider the way Bishop Glasspool is lifted up above all others (as Bishop Robinson has been) the more it illuminates what's really happening in the Anglican Communion: bigotry and scapegoating. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury, in such a painstakingly worded and carefully measured letter, can't seem to get away from this tendency completely.<br /><br />I find it compelling that the Gospel has so much to say to us through the life and way of Jesus about this scapegoating. So much more, in fact, than any handful of biblical proof-texts or antiquated understandings of "nature" have to offer to our consideration of committed same-sex relationships!<br /><br />+++Cantuar writes beautifully about Pentecost, yet how easily we have forgotten the lessons and grace of Good Friday and Easter! But then that puts us in good company, I suppose. The first apostles are barely beyond Pentecost before the first controversies erupt among them over circumcision and dietary laws.<br /><br />Some things never change.Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474786207149076221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25560965.post-66201247536095672882010-05-29T18:06:48.770-07:002010-05-29T18:06:48.770-07:00Your recognition that only Glasspool is named and ...Your recognition that only Glasspool is named and thus a scapegoat is a important and mostly missing critique in this now years long refusal of ABC to name the elephant in the room - or closet in CofE's case.The Very Rev. Daniel B. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05205607142223107826noreply@blogger.com