Becki sander mary glass pool biography
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Lesbian bishop aware but undaunted by controversy
The Rev. Mary Glasspool (RNS/Courtesy of the Los Angeles diocese)
Since becoming the first lesbian to be elected a bishop in the Episcopal church Dec. 5, the Rev. Mary Glasspool has been hailed as a gay rights pioneer and maligned as the straw that will finally break the back of the Anglican Communion.
Glasspool “wavered two or three times” before agreeing to be nominated as an assistant bishop in Los Angeles, she said in an interview Dec. 9. But friends and spiritual counselors reminded her to follow her own preaching.
“Look, you believe in the Holy Spirit,” she said they told her. “You’ve always said the Holy Spirit is in charge. Your job is to follow where it leads.”
Update: March 17,
Second gay bishop OK’d for Episcopal Church
A lesbian priest has been confirmed as an assistant bishop in Los Angeles, making her the Episcopal Church’s second openly gay bishop and potentially widening its breach with Anglicans overseas.
A majority of the more than bishops and dioceses in the Episcopal Church ratified the December election of Bishop-elect Mary Douglas Glasspool, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced on Wednesday (March 17).
The global fellowship of 77 million Anglicans has been in an uproar
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Q&#;A: Bishop Mary Glasspool and spouse Becki Sander share what it’s like as a same-sex couple at Lambeth
Bishop Mary Glasspool talks with her spouse, Becki Sander, during a break in the House of Bishops meeting in September in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
[Episcopal News Service – Canterbury, England] The Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool made history when she was elected suffragan bishop of Los Angeles in , becoming the second openly gay – and first lesbian – bishop in the Anglican Communion.
At this year’s Lambeth Conference, now assistant bishop in the Diocese of New York, she is making history again, along with her spouse, Becki Sander. Glasspool is among the first few openly LGBTQ+ bishops to attend the conference, though their spouses were not invited. Glasspool and Sander, a professor of social work, have been together for 34 years.
Their relationship – along with those of several other bishops – has taken on added significance at this conference, where bishops opposed to same-sex marriage have said they will not receive Communion with them.
Glasspool and Sander talked to Episcopal News Service about the strange contradictions they’ve experienced here in Canterbury, from the politics of sleeping arrangements to the kinship Sander has