Katharine Jefferts Schori given honorary doctorate by Huron University College

From here (page 5)

Bishop Jefferts Schori was in London to receive an honorary doctorate of divinity degree. Her visit to the Diocese began in the afternoon of May 4, 2012 at St. Paul’s Cathedral where Bishop Dance introduced her to Huron clergy who gathered to hear her thoughts on current issues facing the church. Bishop Jefferts Schori is a dynamic speaker with an artistic gift for listening that truly values the individual as well as the group.

Schori’s gift for listening and valuing the individual as well as the group is doubtless what has prompted her to take so many American Anglicans to court for trying to hold fast to the received faith and having the presumption of thinking the buildings they paid for belong to them.

The granddaughter of a former Huron college professor and bishop is not happy about Schori’s doctorate:

As a granddaughter of Bishop W.T. Hallam, in whose honour the Bishop Hallam Theological Society was named, I am deeply disappointed by the recent decision of the college to confer an honorary doctorate upon Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at its upcoming convocation. It is sad to see such a clear sign of the degree to which Huron College has departed from the historic faith of the Anglican church, as represented in the 39 Articles, and as exemplified in my grandfather’s ministry throughout his life, and particularly in his last days as Professor and Dean of Divinity at Huron College, and Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Huron. I am further saddened by the decision because I myself am a graduate of Huron College and enjoyed important years of my life there. As well, I am a lifelong Anglican, and continue to uphold the historic faith along with others in the midst of the current tide of theological confusion.

It is well known in our family that Grandad spent probably the happiest years of his life and ministry at Huron College and in the Diocese of Huron. It was because of this and also the remembrance of his name through the theological society that I had arranged with the college to donate papers of his now in my possession. I have now decided to entrust them to Wycliffe College, where the historic faith is still upheld, and the legacy of evangelical bishops in the Anglican church is likely to be of greater interest.

Although Wycliffe College is more theologically orthodox than the Diocese of Huron – after all, what isn’t? – it still has adopted a head-in-the-sand Neville Chamberlain attitude to the apostasy that is rife in the Anglican Church of Canada. Presumably because it is reluctant to bite the hand that feeds it.

2 thoughts on “Katharine Jefferts Schori given honorary doctorate by Huron University College

  1. Well done Bishop Hallam’s granddaughter for speaking up. Also, – the writer of the article must be reading a crystal ball as, according to the article, this won’t take place until 2012.

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