Today's Gospel of Inclusion comes from Anglicans Online (4 November "After the Robinson Consecration").
Praise to you, metaphor without metaphysic.
Those who consider the consecration of Bishop V Gene Robinson to have been a matter of global importance have been issuing statements and press releases this week. Everyone has remained in character: the conservatives and Anglobaptists have in general condemned it, and the progressives and Anglocatholics have applauded it. Thinking Anglicans has gathered the various official statements. Christianity Today has assembled a list of responses, if any, from all of the provinces of the Anglican Communion. We note that not all of them consider this sexuality issue to be of paramount importance. We're really quite weary of reading everyone's opinions, and urge those who are going to leave to just pipe down and leave, and those who are going to stay to get on with the business of being Christian. Advent will be here before you know it. We'd like to issue the News Centre Challenge: pick any one of the four gospels, read it through twice from beginning to end, and then ask yourself who that gospel, read in its entirety, urges us to exclude. If reading a gospel all the way through is too much for you, then here are some news stories for you to read.
This is the Gospel of Inclusion.
Glory to thee, bane of the literal-minded fundamentalists.
[Editor's Note: AO might want to read this: Matthew 18:15-20.]
Posted by Clifton at November 11, 2003 04:59 AM