It's a girl! [liberal apostasy barf alert]

Salon.com ^ | 6-19-2006 | Sara Miles and Paul Fromberg

[stan_sipple]

It's always a bit of a shock when God shows up in church. There's not much in Scripture to suggest that God's particularly interested in church of any kind, and Jesus, with his deliberate flouting of religious laws, had a notable impatience with the enterprise.

And yet, as Christians, we hope and pray that it will happen. The election of the Right Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, bishop of Nevada, as the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States appears to be a hint that something's going on beyond the usual human bickering, self-congratulation, scapegoating and piety that abound whenever church people gather. The "kingdom of God" -- a phrase used by Jesus and often equated by Christians with the church -- is like a weed growing in the tidy garden of human culture. It grows as it will, unbidden and frequently unwanted; its growth is always to God's design specs, not those of tradition-bound churches.

[Mad Dawg]

It's such a sorry joke. When I was growing up in PECUSA, where I was ordained (as I thought) into (what I thought was) the priesthood, one of the many rebukes aimed at PECUSA was that it was "The Republican Party at prayer", a line which, I am told, was originally "The Tory party at prayer."

So now they're the liberals at prayer. Hardly an improvement ... much ...

[stan_sipple]

"it's a gir?" If you say so.

[weegee]

SALON stock deathwatch...

[D-fendr]

Ok, who bought the three shares last January?

[Allegra]

Ok, who bought the three shares last January?

Ted Kennedy.

He was doing that stock-buying while drunk thing again.