Anglican Samizdat

Rev. Ragsdale is Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary of the Episcopal Church. She is a lesbian and in 2011 married another woman. In 2009 she declared that abortion is a blessing.

She was recently interviewed by Laura Ingraham and apparently, she still thinks abortion is a blessing. Having an abortion – even a late term abortion – is “health care” and is to be regretted only in the same sense as a heart operation is to be regretted.

Is this woman mad, evil, deluded, possessed or a combination of all four? I have no idea – you decide. One thing is certain: she should not be an Anglican priest, let alone Dean of a seminary.

Imagine that.

From here:

THE chaplain at Melbourne’s most prestigious Anglican school has spoken out against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools, saying their classrooms should not be used for ”conversion”.

[…..]

While proselytising is supposed to be forbidden, a recording recently emerged of a speech by Access Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison, in which she stressed the need to ”go and make disciples”.

She also said: ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.”

Her comments sparked outrage and have prompted an investigation by both the state and federal governments.

Mr Noone said the statement that children would be lost without Jesus revealed Dr Paddison’s theology and educational philosophy.

‘The statement is claiming a lot and it is manifestly not true, however I don’t doubt that it forms the basis of why she does what she does,” he wrote in Melbourne Grammar’s newsletter. ”There is a certain kind of evangelical Christian who believes they have the truth and a serious duty to tell everyone else.”

Well, Rev. Noone, if you think the statement ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.” is “manifestly not true”, why are you a member of a profession whose job it is to proclaim that it is true?

Oh, I get it, you are a member of the fifth column gaytheists who have infiltrated the Anglican church in order to turn it into the people’s socialist lawn bowling collective.

Life is so unfair.

From here:

An Anglican rector from London has been banned from working as a priest for two years after he was found guilty of sexually propositioning two gay servicemen.

Father David Gilmore, of St Anne’s Church, Soho, in the West End of London, has been removed from office and prohibited from exercising ministry as a priest for two years following a hearing of a church disciplinary tribunal, the Diocese of London said.

The rector was accused of conduct “inappropriate for a clergyman” including making indecent sexual propositions to two men, named only as A and B, who were staying overnight at his rectory in December 2009.

The tribunal was told the rector had asked the men, who were in London for a conference of lesbian and gay members of the Armed Forces, to sleep with him in his bed.

Mr Gilmore was also found to have chosen to enter A’s bedroom naked when it was “unnecessary” for him to do so, and when he knew that sexual activity was taking place between the two men. Both men left before breakfast and made written complaints after the incidents, the tribunal was told.

The questions that really demand an answer are:

What necessity could there have been for Rev. Gilmore to enter A’s bedroom naked? Had he lost his jammies?

Why doesn’t Rev. Gilmore get himself a reliable, stable monogamous man that he can marry and wander around naked with ad nauseum? Then he could demand a generous pastoral response from the church. That’s what other Anglican priests do.

Why is the suspension only two years? Is the church giving him that long to find a  stable, monogamous, homoerotic paramour who is not a serviceman?

Who could possibly argue that repealing DADT was a good idea? We already have homosexual members of the armed forces corrupting upright Anglican clergymen by tempting them to wander naked into their bedrooms. Repealing DADT could be the end of the Anglican church.

Why did the servicemen complain? Was the sight of Rev. Gilmore naked that shocking?

It could have been.

The doughty Rev. Gilmore is no stranger to fighting for sexual anarchy: he appeared in court to lobby for keeping Soho brothels open:

A RECTOR has come to the rescue of a group of prostitutes who face having their Soho brothel closed.

The Rev David Gilmore, from St Anne’s Anglican Church in Soho, was called to court over the closure of two flats used by prostitutes.

And was successful. He probably didn’t appear in court naked, though.

I know it’s a tired, worn out cliché but I can’t help it: who could make this stuff up?

Well, an Episcopal priest trying to imitate Harold Robbins.

From here:

Next year, Henry Miller on the Trinity Koinonia.

h/t SF

This seems to be an odd career limiting assertion for a priest: if there is no hell, we don’t need saving; if we don’t need saving, we don’t need a Saviour; if we don’t need a Saviour, we certainly don’t need church or priests. Perhaps that explains why the Anglican Church in Canada is losing thousands of people every year.

From here:

The idea of hell as a place of punishment for the wicked was widespread in the world long before the Christian era. However it became assimilated into the official teaching of the Church very early on, in spite of the fact it conflicts with both Bible teaching and the inherited liturgies; and this contradiction has continued over the centuries……

The time has come for all denominations to think again about anomalies and inconsistencies in the inherited faith, which have led many people to come to disregard the Christian religion altogether, without realizing that what they are rejecting is not the faith itself but distortions of it that should indeed rightly be challenged.

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been misunderstood as being belief in three gods, but it is belief in One God, who has been described as being made up of three entities, between whom love flows, The Lover, the Beloved, and Love itself [and I always thought there were three Persons in the Trinity – silly me].

Thinking about the true nature of God, accepting that God is Love, and putting the demands of that Love first and our ideas about “religion” second, would surely have huge ramifications for the future peace of the world.

A God of Love does not send people to hell!

Of course, anyone who has had to sit through an average Anglican sermon has irrefutable evidence that Hell exists.