[Magdalen] Division (was Re: Funeral Service at Saint Martin's, Houston.)

[Ginga Wilder]

Yes, Roger.  Thank you.  TEC/TECSC have indeed sought to reach out to the
breakaway folks, even to the point of offering all parish properties the
Lawrence church claims.  We wanted all diocesan properties, real and
intellectual.  They threw that back in our faces as disingenuous.  Full
stop.

What is so very sad for them is that they are losing it all...or more than
likely will as the litigation proceeds.  My previous parish in Summerville,
that followed Mark Lawrence has posted in a Sunday newsletter, their
predicted Year End deficit will be -$212,904 if giving does not increase.
They are laying off personnel, and/or these folks are leaving for other
jobs/school.  This is utterly sad.  It did not need to happen.  The clergy
and leaders of Lawrence parishes are working overtime to keep parishioners
turned against TEC/TECSC through lies, lies, and damn lies.  That leaves
Episcopal (TECSC) parishioners imagining ways we can reach out in authentic
welcome and encourage reconciliation.  This is an uphill
journey...personally, I believe it will take several generations for this
to happen.  I believe it will in God's time.

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> On 21/04/2018 21:19, Ginga Wilder wrote:
>
>> If I have learned one thing from the schism in SC it
>> is that both sides of the issues are necessary.  We need both
>> conservatives
>> and progressives to hold the center in tension.  The Via Media.  Being
>> either/or is the way we go today...and we have lost the center be it in
>> the
>> church or in the government or in the culture.
>>
>> Guilty,
>> Ginga Wilder
>>
>
> Ginga, I agree that on any divisive issue both sides need to be heard.
> From what I have seen and heard of what has happened in SC over the years,
> and I think that is quite a lot for an outsider, I believe what is
> currently known (pending the final outcome of some court cases) as The
> Episcopal Church in South Carolina has always sought to reach "across the
> aisle" (to borrow a political allusion - and continues to do so. In this
> you have been led by some wise Provisional Bishops with the support of a
> Standing Committee, of which you have been part, and congregations who have
> sought to faithfully follow Christ within the Episcopal tradition. I
> consider that is all of which you may be considered guilty - confessing to
> Christ as your Lord.
>
> Roger
>