SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE: The General Convention of the Episcopal Church decided this past week not even to vote on a resolution saying Jesus Christ was the "only name by which any person may be saved," but heard the newly elected presiding bishop of the church - the first woman in that role - give a sermon using the expression "Mother Jesus."
The canon theologian for the Diocese of North Carolina, the Rev. Eugene McDowell, saw evil residing in the resolution. "This type of language was used in 1920s and 1930s to alienate the type of people who were executed," he was quoted as saying. "It was called the Holocaust." Episcopal chaos (more) By Jay Ambrose
Mark Alexander
