In a stunning move, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church has elected a former fisheries scientist, Kathryn Jefferts-Schori, as the 26th Presiding Bishop. Jefferts-Schori is presently Bishop of Nevada and a second career priest, having been a priest for little more than a decade. Commentators are still nonplussed by the movement of the Holy Spirit in this case. One camp is convinced that there is something appropriate in someone who once studied fish at one of the nation's leading universities for marine biology, Oregon State University, becoming the Church's chief fisher for people. Others aren't so sure. They say there is apparently something fundamentally problematic about the author of papers such as "ACOUSTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SQUID (LOLIGO-OPALESCENS) OFF THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST" becoming the leader of the nation's most increasingly relevant irrelevant mainline denomination. After all, conservatives point out, squid are not lawful eating according to the Pentateuch. "What kind of treif is she going to let in the Episcopal boat, I wonder?," said Sumo Kendall, legendary alterego of the Canon Theologian of South Carolina.
(In homage to That Naughty Anglican Chap of Rich Anglican Fudge with Nuts)
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Well, things are only going to get more interesting, I see. Best to keep praying and holding tight to God.
And look where she did her first year of seminary:
http://www.mtangel.edu/Seminary/Seminary.htm
Oh, my almost home. A great place and the best theological library on the West coast. This is excellent and bodes well. Her next few years were at CDSP, which though some say too liberal, my experience is firmly catholic with a good sense of Baptismal ecclesiology.
Refreshing, Caelius. Welcome relief from the shrill rhetoric being heard just about everywhere right now!
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