'Stinging rebuke' of ECUSA head

Charlie Butts
OneNewsNow
12/27/2011

The Episcopal Church of Sudan has turned thumbs down to the head of the church in America.

Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori had been invited there, but the Episcopal Church of Sudan has now disinvited her, citing the American church's "flagrant disregard" for biblical teaching. Jeff Walton of the Institute on Religion & Democracy tells OneNewsNow the invitation retraction was specifically because the Episcopal Church USA has strayed from biblical teaching on human sexuality.

"The Episcopal Church of Sudan has distanced itself from the leadership of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church," he shares, "and it has also reaffirmed or recognized its relationships with both conservative, biblically orthodox parishes within the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in North America, the rival conservative body [to ECUSA]."

According to Walton, the move represents a significant break in the relationship.

"The Episcopal Church of Sudan has not made those distancing moves so far. They've criticized the Episcopal Church in its decisions, but they have not cut off any contact or they haven't rebuked in any public way actual people within the Episcopal Church -- even though they have criticized the decisions made by those officials." the rest