From GG at SF - sorry, I won't link:
Here in Mississippi, the Episcopal Church lives in a post-Katrina era as much as it does a post-Robinson era. The storm came ashore and utterly devastated the Gulf Coast. It delivered a body-blow to the southern "foot" of the state (check your maps and you'll see what I mean). Three hundred people were killed. Six Episcopal churches were completely destroyed. The devastation dwarfed what happened in New Orleans.
Not wanting to get into a battle about who got beat up the worst by Katrina and the federal flood, but just to note that more than 1700 people died in New Orleans - most certainly not to belittle the losses in Mississippi, for they suffered greatly.
Of course, he lives in Mississippi, and I am a native of New Orleans. We could both be prejudiced.
GG thinks the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast is a metaphor for what the Episcopal Church is destined to become. We shall see.
GG thinks the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast is a metaphor for what the Episcopal Church is destined to become.
ReplyDeleteWhat - reborn, with less attachment to the past and with a new hope for a fairer, more inclusive, society?
Sounds good.
Wow, he needs some perspective.
ReplyDeleteIt has got to be exhausting to live constantly in a siege mentality and Good Friday world.
ReplyDeleteAs for TEC becoming ravaged, it's only in his wildest dreams.
I invite GG to come live in New Orleans, since he thinks it's in such good shape. I'm sure we could manage to find him an apartment in our of our projects--at least until it is demolished.
ReplyDeleteGG thinks the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast is a metaphor for what the Episcopal Church is destined to become.
ReplyDeleteActually, I think he's right. I even HOPE he's right. Otherwise, we just continue in this slow death forever. We need a Katrina to wake this church up.
Lindy
MadPriest, your spin sounds good to me, too.
ReplyDeleteNote to GG: it doesn't have to be a contest, does it? I guess he didn't visit the wastelands in the Lower Ninth, Lakeview, St. Bernard, Gentilly, and New Orleans East.
Rowan, woof!
Mimi,
ReplyDeleteWhy bother with the crap that GG creates? He is ,at best, a provocateur, more likely a damned liar. Certainly, the coast of Mississipppi was destroyed by Katrina, with great loss of property. My parish has been sending work crews to assist rebuilding there for many months.
The difference between Mississippi and New Orleans is crude and simple: racial politics. Add to that the fact that M has an establishment Republican governor and two senators of the same Bush party, while Louisiana suffers from muddled leadership that really defies party labels, and you have a recipe for a continuing creole disaster.It is reprehensible for anyone
to attempt to minimize the suffering of the poor of New Orleans by recalling the losses of people in a neighboring state.
As to Melanie's metaphor for our Episcopal Church: why won't he just leave and let the rest of us sort-out how to be a prophetic church for the new century?GG and the schismatic bishops can build their catacombs in plain view of a people witnessing to God's Grace, and his Anglo-Baptist flock can then retire to those dark places to write purity covenants and defrock women priests.But I'd ask that GG just GET OUT if he despises this branch of Christ's vine so much that he keeps spraying Round-Up on it, and perhaps he can make himself happy somewhere else.Or not.
Thanks again for the "O's".
John, that touched a nerve, didn't it? As Caminante said, it's the siege mentality that blows me away, the circle-the-wagons-against-the-enemy as the default position. It's fear that drives them to constantly put others down.
ReplyDeleteThis was such an outstandingly stupid comment that I couldn't let it go.
I'm enjoying the O's, too.
And don't forget to buy your
ReplyDelete"I SURVIVED GRANDMERE MIMI"
t-shirts in time for Christmas.
MadPriest, why don't you Photoshop a picture of the t-shirt for me with your new toy?
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