GC 2006: Katerine Schori PB Elect Press Conference

Posted At : July 30, 2006 3:16 PM | Posted By : kevin
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Recorded on June 19, 2006
Recorded at General Convention 2006

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Milton Finch's Gravatar During her 24 minute, nineteen second interview, she mentions "Jesus" one time at the 5:09 minute mark of the interview. She mentions "Christians" at about the nine minute mark. Though various questions about evangelism were asked, that mention of Jesus was the only one made during the entire 24 minutes. Even when speaking about Communion, she said "God's table." Now, yes, Jesus is God, but I wonder if she has something against saying the word, Jesus...or Christ.

Congratulations on the new ministry for Jesus, the Christ, the very Son of the Living God!
# Posted By Milton Finch | 7/31/06 9:13 AM
Milton Finch's Gravatar By the way, the Congratulations is intended for Kevin.
# Posted By Milton Finch | 7/31/06 9:20 AM
Mary's Gravatar Gracias a Dios por este ministerio de video importante, mi amigo Kevin. Espero con mucha anticipacion el gran trabajo misionero que haras aqui.
# Posted By Mary | 7/31/06 2:18 PM
Mary's Gravatar Translation:
My Dear Brother Kevin,
Thank the Lord for this great video ministry! I look forward to its great missionary impact!
# Posted By Mary | 7/31/06 3:22 PM
GERALD HOOPER's Gravatar Cana the historical place where Jesus first turned Water into Wine is now a heap of rubble as carried out by Israel using arms supplied by a supposedly Christian American President Bush and supported by supposedly Christian UK Prime Minister Blair, who is responsible for appointing the ArchBishops of Canterbury and York. What should the Anglican Church do about this situation?
# Posted By GERALD HOOPER | 8/1/06 2:12 AM
Milton Finch's Gravatar I don't know, Gerald.

Maybe tell Hezbollah not to mass terrorists there and to stop shooting rockets from there? That would be a good thing if they stopped doing that from that holy place.
# Posted By Milton Finch | 8/1/06 8:56 AM
Will's Gravatar Although I am relatively new to the Episcopal Church, I have been a Christian for 42 years. I see in PB Elect +Katharine a tremendously prophetic vision taken from her often quoting of Isaiah 61, and the vision that she has shared of building the kingdom of God in our midst. I really didn't expect that she would be elected, however in seeing her graciousness, intelligence, communication skills, Godly vision, inclusive heart, and her desire to build relationship even with those who are acting less than Christ like over her election ... I am so very impressed, and believe that it was no mistake, in the economy of God, that she was elected. Scripture says that "as He is, so are we in this world". I look to see the Episcopal Church demonstrate that in many ways during her time in office. I've seen many offer very petty criticisms of her, perhaps out of thier own disappointment that she was elected, however I would just encourage each of us to swallow our pride and recognize that perhaps .. just perhaps, for such a time as this +Katharine has come into this position as PB of the Episcopal Church.
# Posted By Will | 8/3/06 1:13 AM
Will's Gravatar Gerald, When a President speaks as often and with as much apparent personal conviction as Mr. Bush about being pro-life, citing his veto of embryonic stem cell research on the grounds of it being the murder of human life ... then somehow not only supplying weapons of murder, but encouraging such as a means of bringing about "democracy" (in Iraq and Afghanistan)... I believe personally that the Anglican Church would do well to stand tall and by word and action make clear it's stance on Universal Sanctity of Life. In the case of Israel/Hezbollah the same standard holds. Violence, in my opinion, is NEVER the way to peace or resolving an issue. Over the back doors of my Parish church are these words, taken from the Old Testament "All Souls are Mine, Saith The Lord". From that perspective, we would be very wrong to not stand in strong opposition to what is going on in the Middle East.
# Posted By Will | 8/3/06 1:25 AM
Connecticutian's Gravatar Will, just two comments.

First, if the Church is to take a stand against "what is going on in the Middle East", we have to be clear about exactly what that is. I think that most of us in the US do not have the full picture. But I think we know enough to say that it is not fair to place the blame only on Israel; after all, they retreated from the "occupied" territories in good faith, only to have a cross-border raiding party kidnap and kill their soldiers and fire literally thousands of rockets into Israeli civilian areas. You can't place the blame only on one party that happened to be better equipped for war.

Second, it's questionable whether ECUSA has any moral ground from which to make pronouncements about what's going on "over there". This is the church which is famous for moral relativism, and for being the champion of "local contexts" about which those in other contexts have little right to opine or intervene.
# Posted By Connecticutian | 8/5/06 11:06 AM
Will's Gravatar Hi Connecticutian:

Since I mentioned neither Israel nor Hezbollah as being entirely at fault in that particular Middle East conflict, nor the ECUSA as making any pronouncements, I'm not exactly sure how to answer your comment.

I certainly don't view Israel as being entirely at fault, and indeed they were goaded into their present actions by that which Hezbollah initiated . The fact remains, however, that violence never is the solution. Although ECUSA must be on your mind, in response to Gerald's post I said that that we (speaking of the Anglican Communion since that was what he mentioned) would be wrong not to stand in strong opposition. What I guess I should have said was that I believe there is a better way than violence and further killing to end the present conflict (and I do include the war in Iraq in that statement.) If we are to be the presence of Christ in this world, and I believe we are; we must ask ourselves what that presence means in this situation. For me, at least, it doesn't mean further killing and violence on either side.

As far as the ECUSA having any moral ground from which to make pronouncements, since I didn't mention them in my response to Gerald, it would just be taking off in another direction for me to make mention of ECUSA now. His question was about the Anglican Church and so was my response.

Peace,
Will
# Posted By Will | 8/5/06 3:36 PM
Connecticutian's Gravatar Fair enough, Will. I made the presumption that since you had mentioned being an Episcopalian, any reference to the Anglican Communion would have implied ECUSA by inclusion. I thought that when you said "*we* would be very wrong ", that you meant that the Anglican voice would be expressed through its ECUSA embodiment in the USA.

So, I apologize for misinterpreting. It is true that ECUSA is becoming less and less able to speak on behalf of the Communion.

About the "better way"... I'd like to agree, but I don't know what that better way is. When one side has withdrawn and submitted to the other side's stated demands, you would think that would be enough. But for Hezbollah, apparently it's not. I honestly don't know what the alternatives are for Israel.
# Posted By Connecticutian | 8/5/06 4:00 PM
Gerald Hooper's Gravatar We need to get things into a proper historical perspective.

NGC 6397 is currently estimated to be nearly 12 billion years old.

This is a fact which can be proved.

Mankind has only been in existence for a very small fraction of this period and Christianity for a much smaller period.
# Posted By Gerald Hooper | 8/18/06 2:17 PM
Gerald Hooper's Gravatar A further comment on getting things into a proper perspective.

The Archbishop of York is currently on a hunger fast and is sitting in a tent in York Minster Cathedral asking for donations which will be sent to help the needy in the Middle East. At the same time the elders who control the finances of Yorkminster are proposing to spend millions of pounds sterling (collected from the poor) in building a new Residential Palace for the Archbishop and his successors to live in because the present accommodation does not come up to the Archbishops expectations.

There are some facts which are hard to understand!!
# Posted By Gerald Hooper | 8/18/06 2:37 PM
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