Kendall Harmon: The Embarrassing Silence of the Reappraisers About Connecticut
titusonenine
7/16/2005

Imagine the following scenario. In a reasserting diocese, a rector of a reappraising parish seeks some kind of alternative arrangement with another Episcopal Bishop. They enter into negotiation about exactly how this will work–and this by the way is what the Connecticut six did, they did NOT, as is sometimes stated, set out conditions which had to be met. There are a series of meetings but things are at an impasse. SOME parish money is redirected in ways the diocese would rather not see.

Rector of said parish has a son with special needs and partly as a result, takes a sabbatical to do some reassessing and to seek to be a good steward, with his wife, of this son. This is worked out with the vestry and the diocese enourages sabbaticals. A supply priest is brought in, an arrangement with the rector of the neighboring parish is worked out, etc. By the way, the priest has a good relationship with the parish where he has been for some time and the parish has grown, numerically and spiritually.

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