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I cannot promise you that no unusual substance was being smoked by the author during the composition of the following 'poem'."May our flesh and blood too be made the route of Christ’s continuing self-gift to our world in words and deeds of ... indignation."Huh? Presiding Bishop’s Christmas Message Thursday, December 01, 2005 [Episcopal News Service] Incarnation is God’s shocking insistence that flesh and blood like ours                  be the medium of God’s Word. No abstraction, no lofty vision, no finely wrought dogma, no sacred tradition can mollify the shock of this truth: As one of us      The Word comes to...

Frank Griswold preached at the convention of the Diocese of Southern Ohio recently.  His sermon happened to fall on the feast day of St. Martin of Tours, one of Frank's favorite saints.  After relating some famous incidents in the life of Martin, Frank gets to his point: Though Martin was much loved by his flock, his uncompromising witness to the gospel, his reforms and his unflagging concern for the wellbeing and faithfulness of the clergy and people of his diocese, provoked further hostility on the part of many of the bishops. And yet, at the center of his ministry was...

Frank Griswold makes it official: Speech for the children of Abraham - that is Jews, Christians and Muslims - speech is the medium of divine self-disclosure. And it is in response to God’s word variously spoken - that is the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran - that different patterns of worship and ways of behaving and being in the world develop and evolve. One of the great sadnesses of the world at present is that religions that might listen to one another and make common cause around the things that they share often confront one another with...

Frank Griswold, Episcopal Presiding Bishop, says conservative activists are using deceptive tactics. Interview by Deborah Caldwell Beliefnet.net For nearly two years, Frank Griswold, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has been in the vortex of his denomination's controversy over its election of an openly gay bishop. Since then, those opposed to the church's liberal stance on homosexuality have been taking steps to circumvent the bishop's authority in order to "replace" the Episcopal Church with conservative leadership. At a meeting last month in Ireland called by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (head of the Worldwide Anglican Communion), the communion's top...

ECUSA's House of Bishops today:We believe that the Covenant Statement we have made has been achieved under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Our Covenant expresses remarkable convergences among us during these days and emerged from our mutual desire to speak as one House embracing widely divergent points of view. We sensed a profound solidarity and willingness to bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2).Frank Griswold, a couple of days ago:The deliberations were not without stress. In remarks at the opening of the meeting, Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold identified by name six Episcopalians for having detrimentally...

The worldwide Anglican Church still faces the threat of schism over homosexuality, and the rift will not be resolved without someone admitting they were wrong, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.Dr Rowan Williams issued his warning at the end of a meeting of Anglican leaders at which pro-gay liberals from America and Canada were forced to withdraw from key Church summits.Dr Williams said the liberals would now be challenged to respond to demands that they express genuine regret for their actions and come into line with official Church policy.The Archbishop said that any reconciliation process would involve pain, but he...

News Analysis WEST CHESTER, PA (2/9/2005)--Episcopal Church leaders reiterated again this week that they would not change their minds about the consecration of an openly homosexual bishop to the Episcopal Church, nor do they have any intention of reversing themselves on the church's present direction. In a nationally syndicated televised news broadcast with Jim Lehrer, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold told a reporter that while he regretted the pain he caused by consecrating V. Gene Robinson to the episcopacy and the rift it was causing, he went on to say, "I think the regret we can offer wholeheartedly and as a...

U.S. EPISCOPAL CHURCH LEADER VISITS ISLES Bishop Griswold takes up war, gays St. Andrew's Priory students open the conversation with a volley of hot-button topics By Mary Adamski madamski@starbulletin.com The U.S. war on Iraq "set in motion a level of chaos in that area that will take many years to be resolved," a national church leader told a Honolulu audience yesterday. The government's decision to intervene in another country's regime shows "very unclear thinking on our part," said the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. "It is a stand that is...

August 13, 2004 For Immediate Release August 13, 2004 Contact: Cynthia P. Brust 202-296-5360 Senior Episcopal Bishops Condemn Secret Meetings, Uphold Essentials of Faith In an open letter to Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, five senior bishops expressed deep regret that a pattern of secrecy continues in Episcopal leadership as the doctrinal crisis in the denomination grows daily. A meeting planned for August 13, 2004 between the Presiding Bishop’s Council of Advice and the five bishops was cancelled after the Presiding Bishop refused to allow non-participating observers to attend. “We feel strongly that a meeting of this...

July 4, 2004 The Most Reverend Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10017 Dear Bishop Griswold: We, the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, are most distressed by the misapplication of Holy Scripture and the grievous distortions of the Gospel contained in your pastoral letter of June 23 to the Episcopal Church. In this obliquely worded and palliative attempt to justify your consecration of a noncelibate homosexual as bishop and the resulting inevitable fracture between the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, you have indulged in specious...

LOVE EPISCOPAL STYLELast Sunday at Washington's National Cathedral, on the occasion of the celebration of the Baptism of Our Lord, Frank Griswold delivered a sermon that demonstrated once again that whatever his religion is, it isn't Christianity: And of course, distinctions, and differences do exist among us and are embodied in us: our cultures, our languages, our life experiences. As well, divisions exist among us based on our various points of view, some of which we create and sustain and justify out of our fear, arrogance and sinfulness. That we have such distinctions, differences, and even divisions, is neither surprising...