Lord, Have Mercy

All is not well in the TEC:

6/08 Episcopal Life letter to the editor by Rev. John Beverley Butcher, author of The Tao of Jesus, recommends omitting the Nicene Creed

6/08 “I urge you to encourage all couples, regardless of orientation, to follow the pattern of first being married in a secular service, and then being blessed in the Episcopal Church,” Bishop Marc Handley Andrus wrote his clergy

June 9.6/08 Find webpage of All Saints, Corpus Christi. The purpose statement is “Celebrating the Divine in prayer and action.” Core values include “We are committed to finding innovative ways of experiencing God’s presence in all Sacred Traditions.”

1/08 Hindu-Christian interfaith service

1/08 Buddhist mandala constructed at Philadelphia cathedral

1/08 Native American smudgers at bishop consecration

3/08 Rev Clayton Morris, liturgical officer for TEC explains the Eucharist

12/07 “Trans-Spirituality, Trans-Gender, Trans-Spirit, and Transforming” workshop offered by Oasis, Newark

12/07 Sacramento cathedral hosts Tibetan Buddhiststo construct mandala and hold Medicine Buddha Healing Ceremony

12/07 Seattle parish offers astrology workshop

10/07 Sufi dance taught in Seattle cathedral

9/07 >Navajo teachers and medicine men help with a Navajo blessing ceremony during consecration of bishop

6/07 Interfaith baptism in Newark (Muslim and Jewish prayers added to Christian liturgy)6/07 Episcopal priest in Seattle announces she is a Muslim.

5/07 A liberal Episcopal layman/ordained Sufi leads Sufi healing circle meetings at St. Philip’s Cathedral, Atlanta, GA

4/07 A copyrighted Liturgy of Invitation was celebrated by the Episcopal Committee on Science, Techology, and Faith. Readings included antitheistic philosophy. (Not on SF.)

9/06 A Tibetan Buddhist lama leads a guided meditation for EDS seminarians & faculty.

5/06 Episcopal Bookstore offers pagan book Love Potions for sale online.

4/06 Wiccan priest/Episcopal layman surfaces, having had essays published on the Oasis blog and Father Jake’s blog and Louie Crew’s blog.

4/05 Two Druid/Episcopal priests exposed in Pennsylvania.

5/04 A transgender shaman/pagan priest and a witch are featured speakers at a conference partly sponsored by the Episcopal diocese of Michigan GLBT outreach group

1/95 Gaia mass in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Source: The Ugley Vicar