[Magdalen] Mass e-mails, was Test

[Jay Weigel]

Gee, Jim, that sounds an awful lot like some of the President's opponents,
doesn't it?

On Thursday, April 9, 2015, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Roger Stokes
>
>  I would have thought it was against the bishop's interests to wreck a
>> parish. In any case didn't you say that the diocese pried to foust somebody
>> on you and then the Search Committee called the diocese on it?
>>
>
> You'd think.
>
> Shortly after Bishop +Walker (and African-American) became Bishop of the
> Diocese of Long Island, the drumbeat amongst some of the mostly White
> parishes started -- that he was out to wreck them.  This pretty much
> continued throughout his tenure. Included in the Mantra was that having an
> African American Bishop meant it was hard to bring in new members, so it
> was the Bishop's fault that parishes were losing ASA and pledges. Ugly
> stuff.
>
> It should also be noted that three priests of the diocese left upon
> +Walker's election (including one who publicly said he couldn’t stay with a
> "radical" AA Bishop (his eventually ended up having to merge with one
> nearby). One parish left TEC (and seemed disappointed when in effect,
> Bishop +Walker didn’t contest it and took the high road). Another parish
> simply ceased any association with the diocese at all.
>
> Having ceased getting around, ceased vestry participation and thus
> participation in activities of the Diocese, I lost track shortly before
> Bishop +Provenzano's election, and since moved away.
>
> But I'd bet that some of these parish "leaders" have found new persons to
> blame for the actuarial reality of an aging congregation without influxes
> of new people.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>
>