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Keyword: episcopalianism

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  • High Priestess of Abortion

    05/08/2009 6:12:07 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 30 replies · 1,169+ views
    American Spectator ^ | May 8, 2009 | Mark Tooley
    The Rev. Katherine Ragsdale will soon become the first female president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Openly lesbian, the outgoing chief of a liberal think tank that monitored the Religious Right, and best known for her abortion rights advocacy through the Washington-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), Ragsdale maybe the perfect icon for untrammeled liberal Episcopalianism. But a rather vigorous two-year-old abortion sermon by Ragsdale, assertive even by her standards, has overshadowed her recent appointment. "Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done!" she repeatedly exclaimed at a rally in defense of an abortion clinic...
  • With Bishop Chane, it's the same old Spong

    06/05/2002 6:15:30 AM PDT · by FormerLib · 1 replies · 74+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | June 5, 2002 | Charles E. Brown
    <p>Your coverage of the investiture of the Rev. John B. Chane as bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Washington ("Episcopalians consecrate bishop with call to mix religion, politics," June 2, and "New Episcopal bishop voices liberal views," June 3), made me regret that I already had quit the Episcopal Church after 50 years. For after reading the predictably liberal sentiments voiced in his inaugural sermon, I wished that I could quit all over again.</p>