Thursday, October 08, 2015
Lovely, Just Lovely
Campus Reform discusses the Dean of Religious life at Stanford:
Prayer and then more prayer.
church under fire
The church needs to focus more on art and less on religion and converting people in an effort to become less “churchy,” according to Stanford University’s Dean for Religious Life, The Very Reverend Dr. Jane Shaw.I do not know how else to put this - The evil one, realizing all the good that Christ's body the church has done in the world, is trying to rebuild the church in our own image. Like the frog in the water we are being slowly boiled to death.
“I think people are always slightly surprised that I’m not very churchy as a person,” Shaw told the Palo Alto Weekly in an interview. “I don’t think church is to be more churchy. I think church is about, anyone should be welcome. I’m really interested in how you welcome many different kind of constituencies, certainly not convert them, not even necessarily to do religion all the time.”
Stanford announced that Shaw, 51, was to join the school’s Department of Religious Studies in July as a dean and professor of religious studies, moving to the school from Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. At Grace Cathedral, Shaw was not only the first woman to head the church, but the first openly lesbian dean.
Prayer and then more prayer.
church under fire
