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In case Episcopal conservatives want to know what they're in for, a commenter refers me to this interview with the next Presiding Bishop:

What about those who seem bent and determined to leave or to wound the body if they don’t get their own way?

I think they need to be challenged, more so than they have been. I see signs of hope in the House of Bishops, an unwillingness to continue to put up with bad behavior. We haven’t seen any action yet, but I think it is coming.

Do you have any sense of what that action might be? Would a verbal rebuke be enough?

It won’t be enough in some cases, I am sure. But I have the sense that there is some desire to hold each other accountable for actions that are not canonical, for actions that have the appearance of being downright schismatic.

Like a separate church ... not even doing Eucharist together: I find that the most painful part.

Absolutely.


1 posted on 06/19/2006 6:58:47 PM PDT by sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
Sionnsar, I know this subject is really dear to you, so I know what I may say might hurt, but what on earth has gone so freaking wrong with the Anglican church? Is there an alternative you would consider?

If my church (a nondenominational church) had any of these problems, I would immediately leave and attend a church that reported to God.

I could not allow, on behalf of God, idiots to lead a flock of which I was a part.
2 posted on 06/19/2006 7:05:18 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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