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Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15

[PubliusToo]

True enough, indeed. But do we really need to return to the good old days of "true" orthodoxy? You know, when heretics were burned at the stake?!

[Agrarian]

"Thus the liberal of 1960 is the conservative of 2006! And the traditionalist of 1960 is either in the Continuing Anglican Church or in Rome or Orthodoxy."

This is very true. The "conservatives" of ECUSA today are those who have made their peace with all sorts of things contrary to the Christian tradition. I'm glad they are drawing the line at openly homosexual bishops, and they are of course better than the worst, but by Orthodox standards, the "conservative" leaders in Anglicanism are indeed scarcely to be compared with those "Anglo-Orthodox" of 50 - 60 years ago to whom Orthodoxy felt quite close.

As the author says, there are perhaps nooks and crannies of ECUSA where one can leave one's blinders on and live a somewhat traditional Christian life -- but if they are, they are vestigial structures that the leadership has found to be so marginal and insignificant as to not make them worth stamping out.

[Zetman]

"There is a possibility also that he may be found on the perimeter of the modern ECUSA in a congregation that, against all the odds, continues to worship the Lord using the traditional PECUSA Book of Common Prayer and its 1940 Hymnal."

I am having similar problems in the Catholic Church. Cross out "ECUSA" in this article, and a few other words, and replace them with Catholic terms like "Vatican II", and he could just as easily be talking about the state of the Catholic Church. There is even a small, but growing, number of Traditional Catholics who are trying to follow the teachings of the Church as they were before the introduction of the Vatican II liberalisms. The Pope even seems to be sympathetic, and might even try to formalize the old Latin Rite a bit more than it is today. Most Traditionalists I have met seem to be happy to co-exist with the New Rite, thinking "they can do their thing, and we can do ours" (of course, there are exceptions). However, most of the Church hierarchy despise the Traditional Movement, and would like nothing better than to stamp it out completely. They don't want anyone doing anything unless it is "their way". What a messed up world!!