Reading her stuff makes my eyes bleed.

What a shame that the absolutely wondrous message of Easter–the full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice of our Lord Jesus–is stifled again by another social “gospel” proclamation. At least she didn’t go off on the hamburgers and methane bit from last year.

Gnostic ninny – the PB.

Who’s really buying her balderdash?

Point ‘em out to me, soze I can sell dem da Brooklyn Bridge…

Up to the part where she talks about the necessity to practice our faith because our spiritual muscles can get flabby too, she was doing okay. After all, St. Paul uses the metaphor of the athlete competing in the race, straining every limb for victory.

The rest though – oh, dear. And the absolute kicker is the “Together we can shout, “Alleluia, he is risen! Indeed, he is risen, Alleluia!” even when some among us are not quite so confident as others.”

How can some of us shout it if we’re not sure it’s true? I mean, if I were uncertain as to whether Amundsen or Scott had been first to reach the South Pole, I certainly wouldn’t go around saying “Scott! Scott! Scott!”

I know you just did a whole post on Anglican fudge as packaged by the Archbishop of Canterbury, but by comparison with this, he’s clear as crystal.

“We are not born with the ability to insist on resurrection everywhere we turn.”

Okay, yes, I agree. That sentence makes no sense forwards, backwards, upside-down or right-side up. But the rest of it wasn’t actively heretical up to that point.

Oh no, it wasn’t so far, so good, because she was talking about resurrection, and she and the other liberals don’t mean the same thing as scripture when they say the word. They don’t believe in the resurrection the faith promises, and they do believe in a “resurrection” which means more nearly “renewal,” often in the “urban renewal” sense.

And, sorry, an Easter message that contains references to Guantanamo and abu Ghraib is garbage. An Easter message should talk about Christ crucified and risen, sins forgiven, lives reborn in spirit and in truth.

It could have been worse; at least she didn’t openly reject the bodily Resurrection.

Interesting that she speaks of “insisting on resurrection” and I wonder what she means; people of her theological bent are more likely to “struggle with” the resurrection.

When I read her line about “the body of Christ is rising and risen,” all I could think was, “Bishop, Jesus is not the Pillsbury Dough Boy,

Christ is risen from the dead and trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

Maybe the PB ought to check out the Orthodox tradition!

Oh, wait…..she dissed her dead momma on that. Nevermind.

Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of an organization that still considers itself a Christian church, if you need her.

I can’t imagine why I would.

“The greatest cruelty of places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib is the removal and destruction of such hope.”

Their hope was destroyed? I thought we dangled ladies underwear in front of them. ShEesh. We must never, EVER forget that it’s (still) ALL BUSH’S FAULT.

Should we even mention the . .. what? silliness, shallowness, craziness . . . of saying that resurrection is in ‘Haitian cultural DNA’?

God Bless You, MCJ. How hard it must be to wade through this stuff!

Next up: the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as a foreshadowing of “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Day.”

“As a nation and a people they have repeatedly practiced resurrection through centuries of slavery, oppression, invasion, corruption, and privation.” I would say that they practiced a Kind of resurrection or Type of resurrection. Do you think she sees this AS resurrection? “The greatest cruelty of places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib is the removal and destruction of such hope.” I have no idea what the tie in is here or what this means. Her texts are Isiah 9:2 and Matt 4:16. I don’t see these as part of the Easter Sunday readings for any Easter Service with either the RCL or BCP. So, does she have the license to disregard the Readings? My guess is that this group here will read her sermon more carefully than most.

Ed the Roman, you are a very naughty, naughty boy! My cola-sprayed monitor screen is proof.

The really disturbing thing about KJS is that in one certain light, what she writes and says can be read as orthodox (even though the hermeneutical key jumps around randomly even within a single sentence).

“The body of Christ is rising and risen”, for example, could very easily be put in the mouth of John Milbank or Stanley Hauerwas–referring of course to the Church as Body and Bride of Christ–nothing objectionable about that at all.

Schori, of course, invokes this sort of language all day long while meaning something entirely different–classic liberal playbook. She always gives the game away with emphasis. The Church as Body of Christ can only be intelligible in the light of the absolutely central, absolutely primary Crucified Lord slain for the sins of the world.

You could say that for Schori the church supersedes Christ; except that Schori’s church isn’t the Church at all, and to say so would be to insult both.

I’m just curious, but does she ever mention sin?

Ummm…To Whom is she referring when she said, “Alleluia, he (sic) is risen! Indeed, he (sic) is risen, Alleluia!”????
I realize that she actually mentioned “He-who-must-not-be-named” – by Name – earlier in her missive, but it’s not exactly clear that Jesus is the antecedent in her acclamation that “he (sic) is risen.”
I suspect that she probably isn’t down with the whole “The LORD is risen, indeed” thing…

at least she didn’t openly reject the bodily Resurrection.

Read it closely. You’ll see that she did!
As Chris points out – for her “the body of Christ” is precisely “the Christian community” i.e. “TEC”. She does not believe in Christ nor in God.
Rather she crucifies Christ again daily!

I’m just curious, but does she ever mention sin?

Of course not. Because, having turned from life to death, from hope to despair, from Christ to Pagaism herself, she herself embodies the unforgivable sin

Meanwhile KJS and Obama’s real Easter message is maximum support to Islamofacist terrorists attacking Israel

Appears to me to contain alot of emphasis on “works” as a component of salvation. I was under the impression that the protestants had rejected that concept. Isn’t that the reason why Luther wanted to exclude the book of James from Scripture? Of course, when you practice make-it-up-as-you-go theology, then whatever works, I guess. (pun intended). OTOH, glad to find out that all I need to do for salvation is stamp my foot after I die and “insist” on resurrection. “And I mean NOW, God! God? Can you hear me? Is anyone there? God? Hello? Anyone? Anyone? Beuhler? Beuhler?” Hey, come to think of it, maybe I could just “deem” myself resurrected like a Democrat would!

Well, folks, this is what you get when an institution has as its head a semi-educated, inexperienced equal opportunity hire who was chosen more to “make history” and to prove the electors’ commitment to liberal inclusiveness than for any real talent, principles, or accomplishments.

Maybe we should call her “PB Obama.”

“Gnostic ninny”!!! Yer killin’ me Athanasius. My guffaw just woke up the household .

Matthew nailed it: Bishop Schori (like Bishop Griswold before her) can sound quite orthodox. Particularly her emphasis on the community of Christ isn’t bad unless you know that it’s not connected to the Christ of history – Jesus of Nazareth, the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. Her deficient christology eviscerates her ecclesiology, which is a problem, since ecclesiology seems to be the foundation of her overall theology.

Misogynists.

Get over it. All must hail WO.

The PBess has a Ph.D. in Oceanography. Ph.D. means intellectual achievement. Intellectual achievement means that lesser lights need to bow to her greater light.

Be satisfied with your place in TEc. Carry out the Great Commission and draw others into TEc. Use the offerings to pay down the mortgages of the diocesan properties of a hierarchical church. All is well.

All hail the PBess.

Haven’t the Haitians suffered enough without being dragged into her twaddle?

Katherine, I must respectfully disagree. She didn’t get into her full stride until much further down in the thing

Contrary to what Miss PB wrote, “The greatest cruelty of places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib” is the circulation of lies by her ilk to slander those who would protect us. Truth lies tortured and near death while those committed to kill go free.

It strikes me that the thing that K-Scho and Gris share is a predisposition for abusing metaphors. It’s as if they think that metaphors make them sound deep. This is a trait shared by bumper-sticker liberals. Metaphors ~= Wisdom!

I cannot believe that someone could write an Easter message and not so much as even refer to the words “sin” and “repentence”.

Fuinseoig, it’s true that she really got rolling later in the piece, but the moment she began talking about “resurrection” and not “the Resurrection,” I knew where she was going, from sad experience with actual sermons and newsletters over many years. If you don’t believe in the Resurrection of Jesus, then the term means “feeling better or feeling better about things in this world.”

Oh, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

A bit disappointed she’s dropped the “Shalom” (Idiots) closing. I suspect that maybe one of her lib peers pointed out that using the word too often might signal some kind of tacit support for Jews and Israel, or something.

And a very happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all here on MCJ.

Switch it up and have a Jameson today everyone!

A bunch of us are studying I Corintians just now in which Paul states:

When I came to you brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and much fear and trembling; and my speech and my message were not plausible words of wisdom, but a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest on the wisdom of men but in the power of God.-I Cor 2:1-5, RSV

Methinks the PBoTEO’s PhD may be a hindrance.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

“He” (metaphorically) is (metaphorically) “risen!” “Alleluia !” (a nonsensical filler word)

After all:
by “he” she means his body… i.e. The church, so we can really use “she” or “it” interchangeably here.
And by “risen” she means “renewed” or “happier”.
And as for “Alleluia”, I quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
“Allelu-ia. … may be literally rendered, “All hail to Him Who is!”…“ – Hence, for a pantheist, a nonsensical filler word, akin to “fa-la-la”.

And a happy vernal equinox to all. Fa-la-la !

Thank you Presiding Oceanographer. It becomes clearer every day why you left the field of science – which calls for clarity – and moved to the realm of punditry.

Unreconstructed Rebel: “Methinks the PBoTEO’s PhD may be a hindrance.”

Rebel, indeed.

+++Rowan Williams, Ph.D.
++KJS, Ph.D.
Christopher Seitz, Ph.D.
Ephraim Radner, Ph.D.
Philip Turner, Ph.D.

All Ph.D’s. All don’t believe their Ph.D. was a “hindrance”. All like TEc members to stay in TEc.

TEc members: Follow the Ph.D’s. If they think something, why don’t you?

So the Son of God rose from the dead to say, “Hello, it’s spring?”

Kozaburo,
“This is a trait shared by bumper-sticker liberals. Metaphors ~= Wisdom!” Apparently metaphors are not your cup of tea.

Truth Unites… and Divides,
“All Ph.D’s. All don’t believe their Ph.D. was a “hindrance”.”
Are you sure all believe this? Dale Matson Ph.D. I think there are other posters here with a research doctorate.

Had she stopped with Haiti and practicing one’s faith, she might have made it out unscathed. But then she had to try to sound profound – which is why the metaphors are so abused – and ruined it all.

For her the only reality is “the community”, aka inclusive, liberating, against oppression, for justice, etc., etc., especially not leaving with the property. Just one big, happy, accepting, affirming family.

So why do I want to get up early on Sundays for this?

Absolute twaddle from a non-believer.

Dale,

When I wrote “all” in my previous comment, I meant “all of the above”.

Thanks for allowing me to clarify.

For the safety of the public, she really should be required to carry a sign in public saying “No Diving”.

BRINGIN’ THE HEAT

Speakin’ of bringin’ the heat, Bishopess-Elect Glasspool received the requisite number of consents from TEc’s bishops.

Communion Partners, ACI, and 3rd Wayers reaction to this bit of news: “Ummmmmm, we’re still staying in TEc. We *feel* called and we’re staying as a witness. And as you all know, witnesses have to be on the inside and to feel called.”

In other news, the TEC diocese has sold the building formerly occupied by the Good Shepherd (now ACNA) parish of Binghamton, NY to the Mohammedans.

Floridian, do you have a link on that sale in Binghamton? I wouldn’t put it past the TEC diocese; I’d just like to see it.

Katherine -

The article is on the Anglican Curmudgeon’s blog. He has quite a post up about it. Happy reading!