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Pilgrim's Way, A : ** |
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Walter C. Righter, former Episcopal Bishop of Iowa and assistant Bishop of the diocese of Newark, New Jersey, has a license plate on his Subaru Legacy that reads: "HRETIC." He is the second man in the American Episcopal Church's 208-year history to be charged with heresy, and he tells the full story of his much-hyped 1996 trial and acquittal in a memoir called A Pilgrim's Way. Righter's trial happened because he ordained an openly gay man as a deacon in 1990. In Righter's view, his trial was a microcosm of American Christians' anxiety about sexuality and contemporary gender roles, and it also addressed the question of whether ancient theological traditions should be changed by modern social trends. His arguments, in this regard, are lively and insightful, but the greatest value of A Pilgrim's Way is its intimate depiction of the internal politics of the Episcopal House of Bishops--where private meetings are sometimes electronically bugged, where personal tensions are expressed in theological debates, and where members seem only intermittently earnest about their sworn vocation to discern God's truth. --Michael Joseph Gross
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