New Presiding Bishop for the Episcopal Church

[ComplineSanFran]

For all who are interested in the goings-on in the Anglican / Episcopal Church in the US, we have a new Presiding Bishop or Primate. He is the Bishop of North Carolina, the Right Reverend Michael Curry. An extraordinarily charismatic and powerful leader.

Here is a film clip of a sermon preached in Pasadena, CA on Pentecost 2013. You can get a taste of his personality. He’s a good man and he will lead well. Please pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ.

youtube.com/watch?v=dsQAeyzPKYc

 

[AbideWithMe]

For all who are interested in the goings-on in the Anglican / Episcopal Church in the US, we have a new Presiding Bishop or Primate. He is the Bishop of North Carolina, the Right Reverend Michael Curry. An extraordinarily charismatic and powerful leader.

Here is a film clip of a sermon preached in Pasadena, CA on Pentecost 2013. You can get a taste of his personality. He’s a good man and he will lead well. Please pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ.

youtube.com/watch?v=dsQAeyzPKYc

Being from an Evangelical Methodist church, I gotta like an Episcopalian who says something about a great camp meeting.

 

[cheezey]

I suspected this!

 

[PaulfromIowa]

You say that he is “a good man,” but that is very questionable from a Christian point of view. Does he differ with his predecessor Katharine Jefferts Schori at all on her very heterodox teachings on issues like abortion and homosexual marriage?

 

[ComplineSanFran]

You say that he is “a good man,” but that is very questionable from a Christian point of view. Does he differ with his predecessor Katharine Jefferts Schori at all on her very heterodox teachings on issues like abortion and homosexual marriage?

The Episcopal Church in the US is in a very different place than the Roman Catholic Church in the US, with different priorities and ways of being Christ’s Body. There isn’t so much a check list of what one has to believe or not believe. In my experience, the Episcopal Church focuses on being an inclusive Christian community, and the way we pray together and love/care for our neighbors.

I don’t know Bishop Curry well; I have only met him when he has preached near my home. I do know, yes, that he is very supportive of LGBT concerns. There is a clip on YouTube of him preaching at an Integrity celebration (Integrity is the Episcopal version of RCC Dignity). Abortion is not something Episcopalians talk about much at all. Sorry. How different his political views are than Bishop Jeffers Schori, we will learn over the next 9 years. But I do know that he is a believing Christian, a man of prayer, a man of action, a Bishop who leads by word and example, and a child of God. I am a very grateful Episcopalian today.

 

[7_Sorrows]

What does a retiring presiding bishop do?

 

[commenter]

The Episcopal Church in the US is in a very different place than the Roman Catholic Church in the US, with different priorities and ways of being Christ’s Body. There isn’t so much a check list of what one has to believe or not believe. In my experience, the Episcopal Church focuses on being an inclusive Christian community,

TEC has spent millions in ecclesiastic and secular courts going after bishops, priests, and laity who fail to follow the establishment’s theological, social, or political checklists.

I don’t know Bishop Curry well; I have only met him when he has preached near my home. I do know, yes, that he is very supportive of LGBT concerns. There is a clip on YouTube of him preaching at an Integrity celebration (Integrity is the Episcopal version of RCC Dignity).

He is not “supportive of LGBT concerns”. He supports the viewpoint of the secular media. He opposes the viewpoint of the Anglican tradition and Scripture, as well as some LGBT persons who believe marriage is only one man, one woman. “Integrity” is affiliated with and supports the TEC. Dignity is not recognized by the Catholic Church. It is totally opposed to the RCC, and not just on homosexuality.

Abortion is not something Episcopalians talk about much at all.

For decades churches didn’t want to talk about racism. That silence didn’t heal anyone. If abortion is taking a million lives a year, should the church continue to look away?

 

[ComplineSanFran]

What does a retiring presiding bishop do?

I haven’t heard what the Bishop will do after she has finished her tenure. She is still young: perhaps she would take on a teaching position. I think she misses academia. Archbishop Rowan Williams set a precedent by taking up a post at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He seems to be quite happy there.

 

[Sy_Noe]

The Episcopal Church in the US is in a very different place than the Roman Catholic Church in the US, with different priorities and ways of being Christ’s Body. There isn’t so much a check list of what one has to believe or not believe. In my experience, the Episcopal Church focuses on being an inclusive Christian community, and the way we pray together and love/care for our neighbors.

I don’t know Bishop Curry well; I have only met him when he has preached near my home. I do know, yes, that he is very supportive of LGBT concerns. There is a clip on YouTube of him preaching at an Integrity celebration (Integrity is the Episcopal version of RCC Dignity). Abortion is not something Episcopalians talk about much at all. Sorry. How different his political views are than Bishop Jeffers Schori, we will learn over the next 9 years. But I do know that he is a believing Christian, a man of prayer, a man of action, a Bishop who leads by word and example, and a child of God. I am a very grateful Episcopalian today.

I have the utmost respect for the inclusiveness of TEC, its focus, and the love and care I’ve seen firsthand shown to the poor, the homeless, and needy. So thank you for sharing this good news, ComplineSan Fran. It does sound like TEC will remain in good hands as it continues to feed the souls of those who have found a spiritual home within it. May God bless retiring Episcopal Bishop Jeffers Schori and irs new incoming Bishop Curry.