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Pittsburgh's an unusual place: Fiscally Liberal, Socially Conservative.
Posted on 06/29/2006 5:37:12 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
In a step toward creating a church within the Episcopal Church, the Diocese of Pittsburgh decided yesterday to seek formation of a boundary-less, theologically conservative province, and it appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury for immediate alternative oversight and pastoral care.
Yesterday's resolution does not change the diocese's standing within the Episcopal Church. Nor is it likely to have immediate impact on the diocese's 20,000 members.
It does signal, however, that biblically conservative Episcopalians are replacing talk of dissatisfaction with the national church with concrete efforts to create a separate place for themselves within the wider Anglican Communion.
Pittsburgh Bishop Robert W. Duncan Jr. said the diocese's action was in keeping with its intentions of the past several years.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Did I miss something or did Pittsburg recant their support for female ordination? If they did, then great, they really are biblically conservative. Otherwise, they are, at best, heterodox and 'conservative' in the sense that Conservative Jews merit that appelation.
Must be the media's way of splitting Christians into the same three buckets as Jews are already in.
seems that the bone smugglers are fomenting a new 'Protestant Reformation'.
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Pittsburgh's an unusual place: Fiscally Liberal, Socially Conservative.
good for them piscopalians!
God blessem!
"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.", Rev 18:4
And that is exactly what we did, in 1978.
Excellent citation.
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