To the Clergy and 2007 Convention Delegates,
The members of your Standing Committee thought you should be aware of this.
The Presiding Bishop has done something which defies explanation. This is the Christmas card she sent to Bishop Iker and presumably other TEC bishops. Given the increasing polarization in TEC (and the Anglican Communion) today, the only reason we can see for her to make this choice is that she is only interested in pushing the polarization just that much further.
The Presiding Bishop is an intelligent woman, so this reinterpretation of Scripture to exclude masculine images must be intentional. This card illustrates in many ways the core problem of the General Convention Church. Scripture cannot be made to conform to us, we must conform our lives and our faith to Scripture. We will continue to stand for the traditional expression of the Faith.
The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth
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GJ - Notice how the mocking attitude is found in each denomination. The Episcopalian Presiding Bishop cannot keep herself from lording it over the traditionalists, and the radicals cheer her on. How much different is that from SP Kieschnick in the Missouri Synod, Mark Hanson in ELCA, and Church and Change in WELS?
These are Jefferts-Schori's views on Creation and salvation, from Time Magazine:
What is your view on intelligent design?
I firmly believe that evolution ought to be taught in the schools as the best witness of what modern science has taught us. To try to read the Bible literalistically about such issues disinvites us from using the best of recent scholarship.
Is belief in Jesus the only way to get to heaven?
We who practice the Christian tradition understand him as our vehicle to the divine. But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.
