Comments on: So what happened in Pittsburgh?

By: Sue Mosher

Sue Mosher — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:49:37 +0000

“The bishops of the dioceses for Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Texas, South Carolina, Central Florida, Springfield, Illinois, and San Joaquin, California, appealed this past week to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to be assigned somebody other than Katharine Jefferts Schori as their leader.” — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100369.html, a longer version of the smalll blurb the WX Post had earlier in the week.

By: PeaceBang

PeaceBang — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:56:45 +0000

Darling, if you ever have to dress a bishop, throw a terrycloth robe around him and get him out the door quick.

Oh, ick. Maybe all the conservative haters can start embracing the baseball cap thing and save the Anglican Communion from both homophobia AND bad headgear.

By: Scott Wells

Scott Wells — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:30:41 +0000

A kind reader-blogger emailed me privately that Bp. Duncan of Pittsburgh released a statement yesterday responding to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s proposed two-tier Anglican Communion. (The US Episcopal church would certainly be relegated to the lower tier: voice but no vote.) Unfortunately, the link he provided is on the most vicious of traditionalist Episcopalian sites, and I won’t link to it on principle. I’ll see if I can find another source.

He concluded — and I bet he’s right — that the people I saw might have been a working group. I got a good look at the bishop, and I wonder if there’s a page of “mug shots” I can review to ID him.

And Per’ as for the purple, you’re right. Of all the purples a bish could wear, why choose that nasty Victorian neon violet they all seem to wear? It really looks quite cheap. (So does the semi-olive green seen in liturgical wear.) If I had to dress a bishop — God forbid; this whole episode reminded me of why I detest episcopal polity — I’d opt for something closer to oxblood.

By: Peregrinato

Peregrinato — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:40:40 +0000

I’ll poke around some of the arch-conservative US Anglican websites and see if anything is referenced. (Do you ever read any of those? They’re genuinely frightening.)

The main reason I could never, ever be a bishop = the purple shirt.