Feeling A Little Alone in Fresno

Sounds like a country song, don’t it? The Fresno Bee has a story about Episcopalians there who are re-organizing the diocese of San Joaquin after the bishop and standing committee voted to leave the Episcopal Church and hook up with the Argentina-based Anglican Church of the Southern Cone. About 250 attended the meeting this past […]

Sounds like a country song, don’t it?

The Fresno Bee has a story about Episcopalians there who are re-organizing the diocese of San Joaquin after the bishop and standing committee voted to leave the Episcopal Church and hook up with the Argentina-based Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.

About 250 attended the meeting this past weekend, according to the Bee. Of San Joaquin’s 48 congregations fewer than 10 remain Episcopal, the Bee says.


“You are not alone,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the group in a videotaped message.

Still, Kate Turpin, one of the Episcopalians who decided to remain with the church, said “You feel a little alone in Fresno. During the skepticism, it was hard to know who your friends were. We have to show a united front.” Hmm… “skepticism,” could that be a mistranscribed “schism”?

Anyway, KJS also told San Joaquin’s erstwhile standing committee that it’s out too.

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