I am surprised...

[Cow Poke]

She just smacked me in seer's thread for responding to her post when it was addressed to someone else!

How come you get to do that and I don’t?

I started to say "nobody ever accused her of being consistent", then I thought, "well, except for ing - she's pretty consistent with that".

[Cow Poke]

Heck, no!

But I like to point out her consistently inconsistent behaviour.

Yeah, that!

[Gondwanaland]

that no one has mentioned this.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...sgender-bishop

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday.

The Rev Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church’s 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in northern California and northern Nevada.

“My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before,” Rohrer told worshippers. “But mostly, if you’ll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.”

Rohrer was elected in May to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod after its current bishop announced his retirement.

“I step into this role because a diverse community of Lutherans in northern California and Nevada prayerfully and thoughtfully voted to do a historic thing,” Rohrer said in a statement. “My installation will celebrate all that is possible when we trust God to shepherd us forward.”

Rohrer, who uses the pronoun “they,” previously served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco and a chaplain coordinator for the city’s police department, and also helped minister to the city’s homeless and LGTBQ+ communities. They studied religion at Augustana University in their hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before moving to California to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.

Rohrer became one of seven LGBTQ+ pastors accepted by the progressive Evangelical Lutheran church in 2010 after it allowed ordination of pastors in same-sex relationships. Rohrer is married and has two children.

The church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with about 3.3 million members.

I wonder what the laity will make of it. Is 3.3 million members one of the largest Christian denominations in the US? Or is that a reference to churches and not individuals?

Oopsie, looks like in ELCAs eagerness to be woke and appoint a Trans Bishop, they ended up appointing a racist! And now the presiding Bishop is calling for him/her/it to resign.
https://religionnews.com/2022/05/28/...gender-bishop/

[Cow Poke]

Oopsie, looks like in ELCAs eagerness to be woke and appoint a Trans Bishop, they ended up appointing a racist! And now the presiding Bishop is calling for him/her/it to resign.
https://religionnews.com/2022/05/28/...gender-bishop/

Oh, what a tangled web we weave..... and "him/her/it" is "they".

[Cow Poke]

All Christian denominations are Christian.

Jesus would call you a liar.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Jesus would call you a liar.

Jesus was not a Christian.

[rogue06]

Oopsie, looks like in ELCAs eagerness to be woke and appoint a Trans Bishop, they ended up appointing a racist! And now the presiding Bishop is calling for him/her/it to resign.
https://religionnews.com/2022/05/28/...gender-bishop/

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[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Oopsie, looks like in ELCAs eagerness to be woke and appoint a Trans Bishop, they ended up appointing a racist! And now the presiding Bishop is calling for him/her/it to resign.
https://religionnews.com/2022/05/28/...gender-bishop/

Thank you for posting that some nine months after this thread was started.

[Gondwanaland]

Thank you for posting that some nine months after this thread was started.

It's almost as if things come to light at a later time than an original event. One would think a historian would be able to grasp that.

No comment on the actual issue, I note.

[rogue06]

Thank you for posting that some nine months after this thread was started.

He still had one of these that I passed out when Sparko passed out.

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[Cow Poke]

Jesus was not a Christian.

No foolin', Sherlock -- He was the Christ.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

No foolin', Sherlock -- He was the Christ.

Messiah [anointed one] translated into Greek as Χριστός [Christ].

However, the Jewish Messiah is not a divinity.

For one itinerant Galilean Jewish charismatic warning his fellow Jews to repent for the End Times were imminent and the kingdom of God was at hand, all that came later.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

It's almost as if things come to light at a later time than an original event. One would think a historian would be able to grasp that.

No comment on the actual issue, I note.

If the complaints are upheld she should go gracefully.

ETA My original reply was a courtesy but it was clearly wasted on you.

[Cow Poke]

Messiah [anointed one] translated into Greek as Χριστός [Christ].

However, the Jewish Messiah is not a divinity.

For one itinerant Galilean Jewish charismatic warning his fellow Jews to repent for the End Times were imminent and the kingdom of God was at hand, all that came later.

You forgot to add "in my own dopey opinion".

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

You forgot to add "in my own dopey opinion".

And in the "dopey opinion" of millions of observant Jews for the last two thousand years or so.