In response to the Wall Street Journal

From Bishop Wolfe of Kansas-

The Wall Street Journal, like every newspaper, has a bias. But this bias has never been so pronounced as in its coverage of The Episcopal Church. Perhaps the Journal dislikes Roman Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans and Methodists equally, but it appears to have saved its deepest animosity for Episcopalians. Our church, centered on knowing God and making God known, increasingly has found itself in the newspaper’s cross hairs.

Following an unflattering broadside last October, the Wall Street Journal has doubled down on its diatribe against The Episcopal Church by substituting informed and unbiased coverage of the recently completed 77th General Convention with a snide and inaccurate hit piece by Jay Akasie. Even commentary needs to find its basis in fact, and if the writer at the WSJ was uninformed, his fact checker apparently was nonexistent.

I find it ironic that a writer for the Wall Street Journal would comment on the choice of dining establishments made by those attending General Convention. Most deputies used their vacation time to spend eight long days in Indianapolis, where temperatures regularly exceeded 100 degrees, and many meals featured plastic cutlery and paper plates. On rare occasions they and the bishops might have found time for a proper dinner. Ostentatious it was not.

How could anyone attend General Convention, where soaring worship, beautiful music and uplifting preaching marked daily worship, and note only the size of the Presiding Bishop’s crozier? And to pick two pieces of legislation out of more than 400 pieces presented (and then to mischaracterize one of them) is grossly unfair.

More here-

http://www.episcopal-ks.org/bishop/WSJ-response.php