IS ALBANY THE NEXT 

SOUTH CAROLINA?

Bishop William Love, of the Diocese of Albany has been one of the most conservative bishops to remain in the Episcopal Church. He is now declaring: "We're in he midst of a major schism." Exactly what that means remains to be seen, but perhaps we will know soon. Love has called a diocesan clergy conference for Thursday, September 9, in Greenwich NY, to discuss last summer's General Convention resolution B012 (find here ) which is set to go into effect on December 2, 2018. The meeting is scheduled to last four hours. Under B012, same-sex marriages may be performed in local parishes at the discretion of the rector. As GC passed this, it also defeated a resolution to change the prayer book to make the marriage liturgy gender neutral. Love opposed B012. Find Love's remarks on GC here .

The Albany (NY) Times Union has just published a substantial story on this. Find it here .

I am not familiar enough with internal politics in Albany to comment on this. I will relay news of the Thursday meeting as I get it.

All I can say is that Bishop Love ought to read my history of the schism in SC, or at least scan over some of my blog posts about what happened in SC after the schism. In all likelihood, secession will be a nuclear bomb that will explode his diocese and leave it in the same shambles as present-day DSC. Love would be wise to take the compromise of last summer and live with it.