Bishop Rickel Doing His Part to Create Gospel Deserts
There is a lot of talk about food deserts. It seems to me that ECUSA is doing more than its part in creating Gospel Deserts.
The state’s four Catholic bishops have written pastoral statements and recorded videos opposing marriage equality, and Referendum 74, arguing that God is the author of marriage between a man and a woman with procreation as a central goal.
Rickel, who has served since 2007 as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, which includes all of Western Washington, presents a quite different faith perspective.
“Christianity has held, when considering relationships of all sorts — but especially in relation to two people in marriage — fidelity to be our value,” Bishop Rickel writes. “Fidelity is the value in most all our sacraments, and also in our life as Christians.”
If you are in the Diocese of Olympia could you ask the bishop a question for me? Since fidelity if the criteria on which he hangs his hat, will he be sanctioning the marriage of a sterile father and his daughter who are faithful to one another? If his answer is no, please ask him to explain why.
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If he were to be asked that question he might reply, “Its all about relationship, just not that kind of relationship.” Of course he would have no place to hang his miter since he has abandoned the clear Biblical guidance on marriage.
[1] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 9-28-2012 at 08:07 AM · [top]
Hmmm - looks like the bishop is pretty far removed from obedience to Scripture. But isn’t this a common paradigm? How far or to what degree can the Church deviate from obedience before falling under the Creator’s wrath (locally - thankfully)? Can the Church adopt some of the mores of the headonistic culture and still be safe? E.g., the widespread belief since the Reformation that marriage is dissolvable by anything other than death? (In particular, I am referring to the legal fiction in the Westminster Confession, chapter 24:5.) Can she incrementally inch along towards the heathen without consequence? Seems like the ancient Jews thought so….
[2] Posted by Hadley Robinson on 10-3-2012 at 09:13 AM · [top]
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