About the Episcopal Church
I drafted this essay on ECUSA last night, with some edits this AM. Feedback is welcomed (on this blog post – not on the parish website, thanks). Naturally, the history is biased, as is all history: I left out the part about the Anglican inquisition.
Huw blogged this on May 25th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Category: Egg Cracking, church geekery
Discussion: You came too late to this party
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Category: Egg Cracking, church geekery
Discussion: You came too late to this party
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I actually liked this comment by the Rev. Patton Boyle:
We disagree often, politically and doctrinally. … But we have a sense of unity. We respect the fact that we don’t agree. Some people wish we would agree. I, personally, don’t want a church where everyone agrees. I’m not looking for a church where everyone sees things the same way I do.”
This is the main reason why I’ve decided to leave Orthodoxy and return to the Episcopal Church. I was tired of being dictated to by my priest as if I were a child who doesn’t have the mental and moral capacity to make up his own mind.
James – while I agree with you on this: “I was tired of being dictated to by my priest as if I were a child who doesn’t have the mental and moral capacity to make up his own mind.” I think the truth is that the Orthodox church is also a place where “We disagree often, politically and doctrinally” but we keep quiet about it. In fact, I think the online world attempts to enforce a kind of uniformity that isn’t there in reality.
And, having said that, I respect a church that not only has diversity but celebrates it. Which is why I think some on both the conservative and liberal sides of the Anglican argument are not really very Anglican at all.
Which is why I think some on both the conservative and liberal sides of the Anglican argument are not really very Anglican at all.
Very true indeed, Huw. I have come to a point in my life where I no longer feel threatened by someone who doesn’t see things the same way I do. Unless, of course, that someone attempts to manipulate me in to thinking the same way they do.