Friday, March 23, 2007
Episcopals side with Copernicus
The Episcopal Church has rejected a demand from the worldwide Anglican Communion that they provide conservative leaders for parishes that disagree with the U.S. church's liberal stance on homosexuality.
Read all about it, with a certain earth-centric spin, from Focus on the Family.
Sometimes churches grow by splitting. Ask any Amercian Baptist.
Godspeed to the Episcopal Church, member of the Worldwide Anglican Communion -- for now.
If I can't find a good UCC church close by in Colorado, I'll join the Episcopal Church.
--ER
Read all about it, with a certain earth-centric spin, from Focus on the Family.
Sometimes churches grow by splitting. Ask any Amercian Baptist.
Godspeed to the Episcopal Church, member of the Worldwide Anglican Communion -- for now.
If I can't find a good UCC church close by in Colorado, I'll join the Episcopal Church.
--ER
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Except for the fact that I know some quite reasonable people who have lived in Colorado Springs, I would suspect that there must be something in the water, or Radon or something else in the air that has filtered down from those old gold mines up the canyons. The seems to be a very non-random distribution and concentration of freaky fundamentalism pervading that community. It would be worth a study and grant money from the Feds.
As you pursue academia in that part of the world maybe you could study the cause and effect of what ever created that cul-de-sac of hyper-righteousness. I can see it now: Dr. E.R. Phd in History and his new book, "God's Blessings and the Correlated Presence of Arsenic Dioxide in the Garden of The Gods Aquifer, During the First 150 years of Colorado Springs and Associated Urban Areas"
Hey Teditor want to share my smokes?
As you pursue academia in that part of the world maybe you could study the cause and effect of what ever created that cul-de-sac of hyper-righteousness. I can see it now: Dr. E.R. Phd in History and his new book, "God's Blessings and the Correlated Presence of Arsenic Dioxide in the Garden of The Gods Aquifer, During the First 150 years of Colorado Springs and Associated Urban Areas"
Hey Teditor want to share my smokes?
# posted by 
: 11:59 PM
: 11:59 PM 
ER, I don't know how familiar you are with the Episcopal church. I would lovingly advise you to spend a considerable period of time attending a few before you make a decision to join. Make sure you have experience both in High Church and Low Church congregations.
I just want to say that one issue may not be enough to make a decision about where you should make your church home. The Episcopal church is in much pain right now over this one issue.
Look at what the ministries of the churches are in the local congregations. I would challenge you to consider that what happens in the local parishes matter more than the doctrinal divide going on.
UCC and the Anglican fellowship are not the only options available when looking for a church that is open to all people. If you want to fight doctrine, you can do that with politics. If you want to love people -- all people -- it happens locally.
I just want to say that one issue may not be enough to make a decision about where you should make your church home. The Episcopal church is in much pain right now over this one issue.
Look at what the ministries of the churches are in the local congregations. I would challenge you to consider that what happens in the local parishes matter more than the doctrinal divide going on.
UCC and the Anglican fellowship are not the only options available when looking for a church that is open to all people. If you want to fight doctrine, you can do that with politics. If you want to love people -- all people -- it happens locally.
I know, Trixie. This was just me blowing off, again, when I saw Focus on the Family, again, seeming to gloat over what could very well become the carcass of the Episcopal Church. It makes me sick.
I do like me some smells and bells, too. :-)
Fact is, I'd prolly go Disciples if not UCC.
I do like me some smells and bells, too. :-)
Fact is, I'd prolly go Disciples if not UCC.
Yep, them Disciples would fit you good. After all one of their early founders was Racoon John Smith.
# posted by : 7:21 PM
: 7:21 PM
So many changes in your life, ER, and all coming at the same time. Hang in there, dude.
We have a few of those breakaway congregations here in the Old Dominion, the ones who have left the Episcopal Church of Amercia to place themselves under the leadership of the Nigerian bishop who has been instrumental in creating the current schism in the Anglican Communion. The real arguments are going to be over the money and property, of course.
It's not an accident there is such a concentration of Chirstian fundamentalists in Colorado Springs. It was very deliberate. Much of the city's growth is attributable to several mega-churches locating their headquarters there. The flock followed.
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We have a few of those breakaway congregations here in the Old Dominion, the ones who have left the Episcopal Church of Amercia to place themselves under the leadership of the Nigerian bishop who has been instrumental in creating the current schism in the Anglican Communion. The real arguments are going to be over the money and property, of course.
It's not an accident there is such a concentration of Chirstian fundamentalists in Colorado Springs. It was very deliberate. Much of the city's growth is attributable to several mega-churches locating their headquarters there. The flock followed.
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