A great read about our next Presiding bishop.

"Christians understand that Jesus is the route to God. That is not to say that Muslim's or Sikhs or Jains come to God in a radically different way. They come to God through human experience -- through human experience of the divine. Christians talk about that in terms of Jesus." (Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, in an interview with Robin Young on "Here and Now", October 18, 2006)

Gary L'Hommedieu, canon for Pastoral Care at Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Orlando, Florida give an insightful view of our soon to be 'invested' PB.

Gary says, "As the interview demonstrates, the ascending Primate of the Episcopal Church is a politician of rare polish. By comparison her predecessors are a dim bulb (in the case of Edmond Browning) and a clownish dancing bear (in the case of Frank Griswold). Schori is probably the only member of the HOB with gravitas and (in a word) star power." (The interview can be heard here.)

"Soft-spoken, articulate, urbane, she hits all the buttons that excite the liberal mainstream of the new Episcopal religion: she validates the righteous-rebellion ethos of the Baby Boomer generation that only minutes ago was reported to be on life support."

Gary goes on to show that what Jefferts-Schori is offering is a new gospel. When she says gospel and grace, she doesn't mean what the Bible or even the 39 Articles of Religion (has she read them?) say, for instance in Article 11 Justification, "that we are accounted righteous before GOd solely on account of the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through faith and not on account of our own good works."

No, "We are saved rather through our own experience, through craning our necks toward the Divine, and being "graciously" drawn in by Him/Her/It, AS IF BY NATURE. Here "salvation" (which, on account of its "terrorizing" associations ought only to be placed in quotes) is not really "necessary", but certainly it "helps"."

Grace helps, but it is not necessary.