New ECUSA Presiding Bishop: It's a girl!

I broke with tradition and did two posts back to back, because I really did want to get both on the front page before leaving for work. So I'm adding this not to make sure people don't miss the Charlie Grapski update posted right below this entry.

Idea for title shamelessly stolen from this blog. This entry crossposted at My Left Wing and Daily Kos.

Apparently there are some who have their panties (er, briefs? boxers?) in a wad about the Episcopal Church electing a woman to lead the church in the U.S.
Bishop Election Upsets Episcopal Diocese (really, this is just *sad*)

Bishop Jack Iker of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, read a short statement from the floor of the Episcopal General Convention, asking Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to put the diocese under the oversight of another Anglican leader.

Here's an article from the Episcopal News Service about the new Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

Prior to ordination, she was a visiting assistant professor in the Oregon State University Department of Religious Studies; a visiting scientist at the Oregon State University Department of Oceanography; and an oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle. She is also an active, instrument-rated pilot, who has logged more than 500 flight-hours.

More about the new Presiding Bishop, and other news about the General Convention here

See also
An Inch at a Time
Father Jakes Stops the World
Daily Episcopalian, which is run by Jim Naughton of the Diocese of Washington.
And more links here.
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