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Regarding the recent Episcopal dust-up <\/a>in Fort Worth, Katie Sherrod has a wonderful blog today, which she calls “Flying Chickens.” Here are a\u00a0couple of\u00a0excerpts:<\/p>\n

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Did you feel that? It was yet another gust of hot air emanating from the Diocese of Fort Worth. Yes, our Executive Council voted almost unanimously\u2014apparently one rector dissented\u2014to announce once again that they are mad at The Episcopal Church and are thinking about three ways to leave it. Sounds like a song title, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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They make their usual offensive and false charges against Bp. Katharine. There is the charge that she has \u201crefused to accept the key recommendations of the Windsor Report,\u201d as if that were akin to heresy instead of being what an editor of mine used to call \u201ca bunch of words masquerading as a meaningful sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love it! And I love this sentence especially, though I’m quoting out of context:<\/p>\n

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Well, an old friend of my father\u2019s said of such attempts that, \u201cYou can put your boots in the oven but that don\u2019t make \u2018em biscuits.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s almost as though Molly Ivins had returned to poke holes in Jack Iker’s stuffed shirt. But Sherrod is also very serious:<\/p>\n

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What Iker and the majority of the Executive Committee\u2014and others in this white-male-clergy-led schismatic movement\u2014simply do not \u201cget\u201d is that in the end, it comes down to relationships: the relationship of individuals to God, and the relationships of lay people with one another. Members of parishes here\u2014and in other schismatic dioceses\u2014who have worshipped and worked together for years on parish rummage sales, on vacation bible schools, on altar guilds, on vestries, on parish picnics, on fundraisers for the church pre-school, who have cared for each other\u2019s babies in the nursery in the midst of deep disagreements about the ordination of women, expansive language, and\/or human sexuality are not ready to say they \u201chave no need of one another.\u201d They are not ready to not meet one another at the communion rail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read\u00a0it all\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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