Don Armstrong update

Since Rev. Don Armstrong hasn’t shown up here over a week, a couple of updates:

1.  He’s keeping busy sniping at Bp. Rob O’Neill.

 “O’Neill is in need of an intervention and the diocese is in need of leadership who will stand up to him,” says Armstrong.

Which is, of course, why you bailed, right, Don?

2.  And sniping at Bp. O’Neill some more (emphasis mine):

Another priest under siege in the diocese, the Rev. Don Armstrong at Grace and St Stephens in Colorado Springs, said that this is what the end of the failed [Bishop Rob] O’Neill episcopacy is going to look like…the man’s obsession with winning favor within TEC power circles, his commitment to sexual perversions, and his propensity for vindictive revenge are going to drive the Diocese into bankruptcy. Armstrong said that if the diocese is successful in taking his church, the bishop will be stuck with a $2.6 million dollar called note.

Because “blackmail” is such an ugly word …

3.  And keeping his martyrdom (in the penumbra of other martyred priests and bishops) in the public eye (again, emphasis mine).

I actually think these Bishops are afraid of a number of things–that the Windsor Bishops didn’t release a statement after their last meeting wasn’t because they have a secret plan, they simply had nothing to say given where they each are personally in a very difficult and oppressive system.

It seems like everyone is hiding out, and perhaps rightfully so. Frankly I don’t think we know the half of the pressures on and threats against these bishops–so this is not simply a lack of courage–it has to do with the fact that the enemy is truly evil, and they are waging not reconciliation, but a shock and awe assault on all of us, priests and bishops, who have maintained our ordination vows of innocence and fidelity. (1928 BCP).

Kind of gets you … right here …