Monday, May 14, 2007

Joel Connelly: Outsider Aces Local Candidates in election of Episcopal Bishop

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/115283.asp

[Seattle Post Intelligencer] 15 May 2007--The Rev. Greg Rickel raised fundamentalist eyebrows in Austin, Texas, by staging an Episcopal-Buddhist dialogue, and as an Al Gore-trained lecturer on global warming in the state capital where George Bush once reigned as governor.

He is moving north to take an ecclesiastical hot seat, with a pledge not to overstay his welcome in Western Washington.

Rickel, pastor of St. James Episcopal Church in the Texas capital, defeated two local candidates in an election Saturday at St. Mark's Cathedral to become the new Episcopal Bishop of Olympia.

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