The weekend of Nov. 4-5 2006 will mark a historic moment in the History of Protestant Christianity. The U.S. Episcopal Church is installing the first female presiding bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Nevada bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be the head pastor and chief administrator of the two-million-member U.S. Episcopal Church, and she will represent the American church around the world. The Episcopal Church is deeply divided on issues of gay marriage, and the ordination of gay bishops. Many believe that U.S. conservatives will not be part of a denomination that holds views they believe are contrary to Scripture and church teaching. Liberals it seems would rather see their church die then to back off their views. Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay priest who was ordained a Bishop on Halloween night 2003, has this to say about Scripture: “Some of the folks, who are arguing against this, particularly on biblical grounds, are trying to take us to a place, in terms of our own study of scripture that has never been our tradition. It's the tradition of some other denominations, but it's never been the Anglican tradition to take scripture literally. We take it seriously. But we've never taken it literally. It's the Word of God, not the words of God.” Now wait a minute here, lets look at this closely, “It's the Word of God, not the words of God” I was under the impression that the Bible is called the Word of God because it is the words of God. So for 2,000 years the “word of God” was considered to be the “words of God” inspired by the Holy Spirit, but now because they don’t line up with our politically correctness now “word of God” is just a title? It is going to be interesting to watch this unfold. I wonder what the reformers would think about this? The weight of this problem is huge, because there is no definitive voice in the Episcopal Church, there is no one who has the authority to say this is not going to happen. Today we have 33,000 different denomination because of doctrinal issue such as this one. What will those in the Episcopal Church do who oppose women ordinations and Gay Bishops? They will do what protestantism has always done, they will break off from the U.S. Episcopal Church and form their own or they will merge with another branch. My prayer are with those who stick to the belief that the Word of God is just that, God's word.