Okay, it honestly never was (and is not now) my intention to tout Orthodoxy through use of the My-Religion-Is-Best-Because-The-Others-Are-So-Goofy approach. But this story is really too much to resist:
An Episcopal priest who has received a Buddhist lay ordination has been elected bishop in the Diocese of Northern Michigan. The Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester, who has served in the diocese since 2001, was elected on the first ballot and received 88 percent of the delegate votes.
Forrester, who has been identified by his former bishop Jim Kelsey as ‘walking the path of Christianity and Zen Buddhism together, is not the first Episcopal clergyman to practice dual faiths. In 2004, Pennsylvania priest Bill Melnyk was revealed to be a druid; while in 2007 Seattle priest Ann Holmes Redding declared that she was simultaneously an Episcopalian and a Muslim.
Read the rest here
An Early English Life of St Herman of Alaska
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The article that follows is, as far as I know, the first English-language
life of St Herman of Alaska. It originally appeared under the title “Herman
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3 comments:
You forgot to mention that both Melnyk and Redding were eventually inhibited from priestly duties. Peace, Mike
I didn't forget to mention it; I just didn't.
However, I did include a link to the IRD story which does mention that fact.
Another nail in the coffin of the Episcopal Church
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