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12.03.2008 1:08pm EST
(Wheaton, Illinois) Theological conservatives upset by the liberal views of the Episcopal Church are forming a rival denomination.
The new Anglican Church in North America will include four Episcopal dioceses that recently split from the U.S. church, along with breakaway Anglican parishes from Canada.The announcement Wednesday in Wheaton, Illinois, comes after decades of debate over what Episcopalians should believe about issues ranging from salvation to sexuality. Tensions erupted in 2003 when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.
The world Anglican Communion is a fellowship of churches with roots in the Church of England. The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the United States. But the new North American church says it represents true Anglican beliefs.
…and if the Anglican Communion does decide to recognize this new bunch as part of the communion (assuming they would even want to participate), what then? Maybe it really is time for the the original American church to wave good-bye to the communion and let it drown without the American church’s money.
Morgan, as is mine.
These groups that have splintered off are not a part of the Communion. They have little in common with how the Church views things.
I hope that the Church is able to seize the property that the renegades believe is theirs.
I guess their God hates us!
Sometimes “Division” isn’t a dirty word. Cells divide and diversify in order to improve the body’s ability to thrive in new environments.
My Episcopal church is progay and pro-diversity, has got a fantastic female preacher and that church is where I will remain.
Any church founded upon hatred will not long endure. At present, there are at least FIFTEEN break-away groups in the USA that call themselves “Anglicans.” In reality, they are Puritans/Congregationalists/Calvinist homophobes who have no respect for Scripture, Sacred Tradition, or Reason (the “three-legged stool” of Anglicanism). The Africans and the other “primates” of the Southern Hemisphere are in it for the conservative American money (Ahmanson, Scaife, Coors, etc.). The American clergy are in it for two reasons:
1. So they can be as high-church as they want, and be able to “wear lace all over the place.”
2. They have mitre-itis. They all want to be bishops. They can’t, obviously, but watch this new group splinter (as all the others have done) as egos clash and the available territories are carved into smaller and smaller dioceses.
I know most of the principals; I can’t say that ANY of them have PRINCIPLES. It’s ALL about MONEY and POWER.
Period.
Bud Burgoon-Clark
2nd class citizen
but not in GOD’S eyes
And you’d think the Roman church would be a perfect fit. Oh, wait, the priests and bishops would have to go sit in the cheap seats again.
Yeah, they don’t have enough gay hating churches. Who can blame them? Gotta have 100 preaching HATE to balance out that ONE preaching LOVE. Jesus would be proud!