{"id":1338,"date":"2003-10-19T11:43:51","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2003\/10\/19\/gays-church-and-the-press\/"},"modified":"2003-10-19T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T15:43:51","slug":"gays-church-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2003\/10\/19\/gays-church-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays, Church, and the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

This article in Christianity Today<\/a>
\n(again, not my favorite mag, but it makes the attempt to provide some
\nrange of voices and some occasional scholarship) about the challenges
\nin the Episcopal Church right now.  It’s an unusually thoughtful
\nlook at what everyone’s obligations — liberals, conservatives,
\nevangelicals, non-Episcopalians, Protestants, Catholics — in the
\nsituation are.  Here’s the last three paragraphs:<\/p>\n

From the long perspective, the Episcopal Church’s
\ncurrent battle bears real resemblance to a certain stand of General
\nCuster. Evangelicals may tend to take a kind of perverse pleasure from
\nthis: “Those liberal so-and-so’s are getting what’s coming to them.”
\nBut given Anglicanism’s signature values of moderation in religious
\nconflict, willingness to hear and work within the surrounding culture,
\nand nourishment from the historical tradition of the church, more
\nthoughtful Christian observers may wish to delay the party.<\/p>\n

<\/font>We may want to stop and ask, “What will America lose
\nif this venerable church experiences the kind of violent gutting that
\nnow seems all but inevitable?”<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

Alien though their tradition may seem to many
\nconservative Christians, our Episcopal brothers and sisters are part of
\nthe body of Christ. And as a church, they may soon be lying by the side
\nof the road, mortally wounded—like the man waylaid in Christ’s parable
\nof the Good Samaritan. God help us not to pass them by with a sneer,
\nbut to recognize and act on our common bond in Christ.”<\/font><\/p>\n

Another article from the Daily Telegraph<\/a>
\nin Britain (again, not my favorite paper, as I’m not a subsriber to the
\nTory party’s views and ideas) that points out, “The lesson of the
\nAnglican schism is that belief in one God is not
\nnearly enough to make Christians love one another: what works is a
\nbelief in the same devil.”<\/p>\n

Finally, for web based stuff this morning, we have Andrew Sullivan from this Sunday’s NYT<\/a>.  He talks about why he finally feels some measure of despair about the situation of gays in the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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