In an incredibly surprising move, the International Communion of Evangelical Churches has named Bishop Harry Jackson the “presiding bishop” of that organization, which he founded himself a year ago. Right Wing Watch links to the video of the incredibly elaborate and, presumably, expensive elevation ceremony.
Kinda reminds me of when Eddie Long was crowned king and wrapped in a fake torah scroll by a fake rabbi.
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reverendrodney
July 3, 2012 at 10:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You ain’t seen nothing. Wait until he makes pope. After all, if his craving for adulation is such that he needs this after only a year, the sky is the limit!
John Hinkle
July 3, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
His shoulders must be double jointed, what with all that self back slapping.
tacitus
July 3, 2012 at 12:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Not that anyone should be surprised, but their web site reveals the true purpose of his organization:
d cwilson
July 3, 2012 at 1:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Reminds me of how Randy Paul created his own accrediting organization and then used it to declare himself accredited.
billydee
July 3, 2012 at 8:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They are trying so hard to look like Episcopalians.
Pseudonym
July 4, 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@tacitus:
The actual purpose of this organisation is for US-style evangelical churches to kid themselves that they haven’t left Christianity.
If you’re not part of one or more ecumencial communions (and there’s no shortage of them to choose from), you’re not part of the major world religion. The SBC, for example, left its last ecumenical communion (the Baptist World Alliance) in 2004, because even that was insufficiently wingnut for their post-fundamentalist-takeover-era tastes.
I predict that this “communion” will implode from infighting, or stay tiny because for reasons of ideological purity. Most likely, it will be both.