[Fort Worth Star-Telegram] 7 Feb 2009--The newly elected provisional bishop of the reorganized Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth said Saturday that he will work to "make the wide embrace of Christ's love available" in the wake of a bitter split between two factions of the diocese.
The Rt. Rev. Edwin F. "Ted" Gulick Jr. made his remarks during a news conference at Trinity Episcopal Church after his nearly unanimous election, with 80 of 81 delegates voting for him and one delegate abstaining.
He will lead a group that chose to remain with the Episcopal Church after a majority of delegates in the 24-county diocese voted in November to leave the church.
Gulick, 60, has a master of divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary. He will work in Fort Worth part time and continue to serve as the bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky.
In a letter to be distributed Sunday at Episcopal churches in the reorganized diocese, Gulick said Christians are "free to greet each other as brothers and sisters despite differences of race or tribe, status, gender, political allegiances or ethical views and understanding."
Gulick decidely has a liberal social agenda. He appointed an openly lesbian deacon as the pastor of three small churches in western Kentucky where I live. The area is fairly politically and socially conservative. One church is now closed.
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