[Magdalen] prayers for my former parish

[Marion Thompson]

I dunno.  Sounds like a lot of triangulation going on.  Former parish, 
eh?  ... why would unknown people be urging *you* to call the bishop.  
Why don't they do it???

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/2/2015 9:19 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Okay, so I had a chat with the senior warden of All Saints who is an old
> friend and here's what's happening. They *had* a PIC, appointed by the Bp.,
> and the vestry had voted to call him, with the Bp's permission. So last
> week he called the sr. warden and asked to speak to her privately and it
> turned out he was giving his two weeks' notice to accept an interimship at
> another parish. So they were back to square one. It was right after that
> that this other mess started. She suspects that although she had asked the
> vestry to keep the whole thing private, someone, and she is pretty sure she
> knows who, had leaked the info to someone who is very close to the former
> rector.  She is extremely upset with the person trumpeting it all over
> Facebook. So am I, and I would unfriend him except that I want to stay on
> top of what's happening. She did say that the Bp. is a man to be reckoned
> with. I also have received a message from someone I don't know encouraging
> me to contact the Bp. and let my feelings be known. I may have to do that
> after all.
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jay.weigel at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Well, it's worse than I thought, apparently the guy leading the campaign
>> is back in town. :-(
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jay.weigel at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Since I'm not absolutely sure what's going on I don't want to stick my
>>> own oar in. I just really hope the bishop isn't a man easily swayed.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gingawilder at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jay,
>>>> The bishop needs to know your friends' reservations.  Also, I feel sure
>>>> the
>>>> bishop would ask questions about this man's previous tenure in the
>>>> parish.
>>>>
>>>> Ginga
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jay.weigel at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have just learned via a Facebook post that a former rector of the
>>>> parish
>>>>> I belonged to in Tennessee for many years has offered to serve as
>>>> interim
>>>>> for a year. Now this may be seen by some as a gracious offer, but
>>>> IMNSHO it
>>>>> is extremely self-serving. The place is currently apparently in a huge
>>>> mess
>>>>> both financially and spiritually following the departure of the
>>>> previous
>>>>> rector, and AFAIK has a priest-in-charge appointed by the bishop rather
>>>>> than an interim. (I'm not totally up on church politics, but this is
>>>> what I
>>>>> gleaned on my last visit there on the occasion of my late ex's
>>>> memorial.)
>>>>> The PIC is a very nice guy. Also some of my old friends, who were
>>>> seriously
>>>>> wounded by the previous rector now offering his services but soldiered
>>>>> faithfully on, are currently on the vestry.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know what the protocol for such a thing is, but I think it is a
>>>>> Very Bad Idea. The guy IMNSHO has a serious Napoleon complex (yes, he
>>>> is a
>>>>> short little dude and he *really* likes to throw his weight around)
>>>> and I
>>>>> honestly believe he sees himself as riding in on a white horse to
>>>> "save"
>>>>> the place. I know there is a certain faction within the parish that
>>>> would
>>>>> just LOVE to see him back (he left to become headmaster of an Episcopal
>>>>> school in NC) but I also know that there are others who might very well
>>>>> leave, and I strongly suspect that it would keep my daughter and her
>>>> family
>>>>> from returning, or that they will be among those leaving. I am devoutly
>>>>> hoping that God, the bishop, and the vestry will say no. In any case,
>>>>> prayers are requested for All Saints,' Morristown, TN.
>>>>>
>>>