Monday, February 05, 2007

USA Today on Jefferts Schiori

Episcopal church's new dawn - USATODAY.com: "The long-simmering tensions between those who adhere to a strict interpretation of the Bible and those who read it less literally came to a boil in 2003. That's when the church's governing body approved the election of the church's first openly gay bishop, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

Jefferts Schori has been excoriated by conservatives for her theological views. Some primates say they won't sit in the same room with her at her first meeting of the primates in Tanzania next week.

Yet, despite 'white-hot animosity thrown at her, she's unflappable,' New York Bishop Mark Sisk says.

Confronted with seemingly intractable conflicts, Jefferts Schori smiles like someone well versed in Matthew 6:25's refrain: 'Be not anxious.' The world is all of God, she says, so go forward."

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