[Talking_Mouse]

I don't understand. Are you saying that you friends left because they followed Rev. Bill DeArtega? He seems not just to have talked the talk but walked the walk as well, by leaving and forming a new church.

[torqemada]

I'm quite sure that Mother is referring to Fr. DeArtega's former Episcopal Church rector...the one who tried to convince DeArtega not to leave the ECUSA because of the "All Mighty Dollar" implications.

[AnAmericanMother]

Not DeArtega - I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough.

I was talking about the man who was the rector of the old church before Vicki Gene even came on the scene. The one who said he was orthodox and went to all the AAC meetings, but decided to stay with the old ECUSA church . . . . with no staff and a handful of congregation. According to my friends, he had issues years ago, and his behavior certainly bears that out.

Better to meet in an office park with a folding table for an altar with the orthodox (which is what the new congregation is doing) than in a multi-million dollar church building with the heretics.