[johnb838]

Last night at choir practice I remarked to a guy that the nave "looked good for an apostate church". This dude is a little bit unbalanced anyway and he looked at me as if he was about to come unglued and said "We'll have to talk about that later". There are a lot of liberals where I go. It is definitely time for people to stand up and be counted as to where they stand on this. We will be discussing it on Sunday. In honor of the sermon the choirmaster selected "The Church's One Foundation" as the processional.

[AnAmericanMother]

"One holy Name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,
With every grace endued."

The substitute rector at my parents' church bore the brunt because the rector was on vacation (we were too - that's why we were at my parents' church in the conservative Diocese of Georgia, rather than home in the outrageously liberal Diocese of Atlanta.) He had "Onward Christian Soldiers" as the recessional, and other likely "unity" hymns scattered throughout.

"We are not divided,
All one body we . . . "

. . . I told him after the service I HOPED he was right. By the look in my eye he knew I thought he was whistling past the graveyard. But the Bishop of the diocese, Louttit, is conservative and voted "No." He is holding two meetings for communicants to state their opinions. I don't know whether he's going to Plano in October or not.

Our diocese is a blinkin' lost cause, I could just scream. Maybe the Diocese of Georgia will start a couple of mission churches?????