Stand Firm: Bishop Gladstone Adams of Central New York: Post House of Bishops Meeting Letter to Diocese
Post House of Bishops Meeting Letter to Diocese (via email)
March 26, 2007
The Annunciation

Dear Clergy and People of Central New York:

Many of you have already seen the documents reflecting the thinking of the recent House of Bishops meeting. If not, they are available on line at http://ecusa.anglican.org/79901_84230_ENG_HTM.htm and I commend them to you. There is a scheduled clergy meeting on April 18th in order to have a conversation about the content of the Bishops meeting, but I thought that a few preliminary thoughts would be in order.

First let me say that there was at this meeting a spirit of openness, self-differentiation and truth-telling, the depth of which I have not seen among us for a while. This was true across theological and ideological lines and named by many. Our meeting continues to be grounded in worship, prayer and Bible study for which I am grateful. We did spend a fair amount of time discussing our thoughts and responses to the primates’ Communiqué, but we also spent a significant amount of time on many mission subjects and issues. For a substantive list of our activities please refer to A Message to God’s People, our letter to the people of the Episcopal Church (found at http://ecusa.anglican.org/79901_84233_ENG_HTM.htm). I encourage you to share that letter and the above referenced documents with your congregations.

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