I would not have expected the bishops of the Anglican Communion to do anything other than affirm the traditional teachings of the church, but what surprised and shocked me was the rhetoric of hate and condemnation. A new biblical fundamentalism has taken hold in the Anglican Communion, and this concerns me because I believe it is idolatrous. The issue is not the authority of Scripture, but the interpretation of Scripture. Is it to be interpreted as verbally infallible, with God dictating every word, or do we understand the Word of God coming through fallible human beings who wrote out of their own cultural and historical contexts? I understand it as the latter; otherwise we should be about stoning disobedient children -- or homosexuals.

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