The focus on homosexuality and the work of establishing parallel Anglican structures in the US and in the Anglican Communion has distorted the relationships of
The Church’s presence on the internet is varied and growing. Church-on-the-net is a new internet church site that targets people who not in the Church
Gordon Brown is the third Prime Minister in a row in Great Britain to “do God.” The son of a Church of Scotland minister, he says he will bring “competence and serious moral purpose” to government.
The Diocese of Massachusetts has sued former Episcopalians who departed their parish. In the Diocese of Connecticut, a congregation that voted to depart has until July 8th to vacate the building and account for assets.
Some evangelical bishops in the Church of England say that floods there are God’s judgment. One said that the floods are the result of our lack of respect for the planet, and also are a judgment on society’s moral decadence.
What I most regret about Episcopal worship is a formalized, numbed aesthetic and an Anglophile caricature of Gothic revival. It’s a too-settled, status-quo feeling in liturgy that carries smugness: we say people have to “learn to appreciate it.” It’s sectarian and arrogant, it doesn’t touch people’s lives, and it’s why our Anglophile churches in America are relics.
Continuing to belong to the Episcopal Church even when at variance with some of its central doctrines did not seem to discomfort the Deistically inclined founders such as Jefferson, for they liked its liturgy and the historic cadences of its language. The Anglican faith of Virginia differed from the New England Puritanism out of which Adams and Franklin emerged.