Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. "As my Dad has been saying, he just wishes someone would tell him where he is supposed to go to church."
He should go to the nearest Catholic parish.
If cannot stomach that thought, then he should go to the nearest Eastern Orthodox church.
Because the religion he grew up in does not exist anymore in this country. It's faithful remain, but the church itself in America has moved on to "more important" things, which does not include those beliefs and things that it used to have and do when he was growing up, and that they still have and do at the Latin and Eastern versions of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Compromise with Rome or Constantinople or Moscow before you compromise with the Devil.
There is his answer.
Painful as it is.
Dear sionnsar,
So it appears that another homosexual bishop may get the nod at the General Convention in 2006?
If the General Convention next year were a repeat of the 2003 Convention, I guess that might sufficiently inflame the rest of the Communion to finally through ECUSA out in 2008.
However, if the 2006 General Convention went ahead with another homosexual and the Communion didn't finally throw ECUSA out by the end of the 2008 Lambeth Conference, I think that this would unofficially, but pretty much permanently, ratify open and active homosexual bishops in the Anglican Communion.
What's your take?
Do you think California is going to put up a homosexual bishop?
If they do, will the General Convention buy off on him or her?
If that occurs, will that be the final straw, leading to expulsion from the Anglican Communion of ECUSA at Lambeth 2008?
Thanks for all your posts and pings.
sitetest
First, let me apologize if I gave you the impression on that other thread that I thought you were the one who got all aghast if someone chose to stay in the EC.
I just addressed the comment to you because you started the thread, and I knew if I said I was staying I would be jumped on by someone.
Maybe because I was raised in the Baptist church... as you may or may not know, there is no "Baptist Church." The churches are all independent. They may belong to a convention, ie Southern Baptist Convention, but basically, each church does as it pleases.
It never occurred to me to even be concerned about what the "national church" did until a few years ago.
I do what I can. I speak up. But I'm not gonna go schlepping around to some Catholic church or start over at some distant Anglican parish when I have a small, holy church I love a half mile away.
I pray every day for the national church, that it will come to its senses, but they seem determined to drive the conservatives out. I actually think that is what they want...there is no other explanation.
Thanx for all your posts.