[Magdalen] Supreme Court denies Diocese of South Carolina's motions to rehear and recuse

[Ginga Wilder]

We now worship in our own space which we rent behind a CPA's office.  Good
Shepherd is blessed with two architects and a professional construction
engineer.  They designed and built the interior as a magnificent worship
space.  Come and see.  Jim Handsfield was here a year or so ago.

Ginga

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Catharine.  This slog has been long, arduous, and exhausting for
> every person on either side.  This decision is a good one.  I saw photos
> from your convention on Facebook...you are looking great!  Bp John Buchanan
> retired to South Carolina, so I am familiar with the Quincy settlement.
> The right people are doing the mediation - a retired federal judge,
> chancellors from TEC, TECSC and the Lawrence church, plus the two bishops.
> These are the only people who can be there by order of the judge and is
> quite a change from the 60 attys Mark Lawrence generally brings with him.
> I don't know what comes next, but the USSC more than likely would not hear
> the case.  I am hopeful for the future of The Episcopal Church in SC, and
> we will all be glad when we can once again call ourselves The Episcopal
> Diocese of SC!  Watching and waiting has become a way of life for us, but
> we are closer to the end now that this ruling has come down!!
>
> Roger, thanks.  Good Shepherd was delighted to have you celebrate and
> preach when you visited Summerville.  We depended on supply clergy to take
> every Sunday for the first year and then every other Sunday when we called
> a Priest -n-Charge in October 2013.  We now have a 3/4 time P-i-C who is
> with us every Sunday.  We rented space for worship for 2 and a half years
> from an African American United Methodist Church.  The generosity of these
> folks and from churches and clergy from across the church taught us so much
> about being Christ's servants. (You are correct that I am no longer on the
> Standing Committee...finished my term last week.
>
> Blessings all.
> Ginga
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19/11/2017 19:38, Ginga Wilder wrote:
>>
>>> I know you all are burned out on the mess in South Carolina, so I will
>>> make
>>> no comments.  Below are several links for you to learn more, if you are
>>> curious.
>>>
>>
>> Ginga,
>>
>> I understand that as a (I believe now former) member of the Standing
>> Committee of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina and having been subject
>> to an order to refrain from public comment you have to be circumspect in
>> what you say. I also recall that the last service I conducted while
>> nominally a Church of England parish priest (my retirement took effect a
>> few days later) was with you as guests of an AME congregation so I am far
>> from burned out on the situation in SC.
>>
>> Claiming that a judge was biased against you and calling for her recusal
>> after judgement has been handed down strikes me as a claim borne out of
>> desperation. Perhaps some of the other Justices are members of independent
>> Churches who are biased against hierarchical Churches such as TEC. Should
>> they have been denied authority to hear the case? If the Justices of SCOTUS
>> have any sense they will decline to hear this case at least until the
>> separate federal case has been heard and appealed at Circuit level.
>>
>> Roger
>>
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