Date: June 26th 2008

Pittsburgh Episcopalians, in a group informally calling itself “Across the Aisle,” are planning for a reorganized Diocese of Pittsburgh should, as seems likely, the diocese be “realigned” in October. What will this diocese look like, or, perhaps more appropriately, how will it address the job it has to do? In my latest blog post, “Whither Pittsburgh,” I suggest the kind of objectives the reorganized diocese will likely subscribe to. In the process, I tell the story of how people from both sides of the aisle, liberals and conservatives, came to talk and work together. This did not happen in San Joaquin until after the diocese voted to join the Southern Cone. We hope that the fact that people of diverse theological views are talking about their common future before schism will make the transition to new leadership in the Diocese of Pittsburgh a smoother process. You can read my post at http://deimel.org/commentary/blogger/2008/06/whither-pittsburgh.htm.

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Lionel
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