Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. I'm an atheist, but have an affinity for the Episcopalians. That church seems very grounded.
Very interesting. This is a huge church. My chuch (small and rather liberal) is in this diocese. I wonder what our Bishop (Stanton) has planned.
Also we have a woman priest. Would becoming Anglican affect that? I would really hate to lose her. She's topnotch and the best priest we've had in 20 years.
Will this cause a fight over who owns the church building?
You know, I was at a wedding this weekend and was chatting with some relatives (we're pretty much all practicing Catholics...and there're loads of us, ten kids are the norm) and the situation of the woman Bishop came up.
One of my relatives by marriage (himself a convert from non-specific Protestant) said he was happy about the Bishop because it would lead to mass conversions to Catholicism by orthodox Anglicans.
Now we all know there are several more orthodox places to end up that the ECUSA (ok many), but whether these good folks end up Catholic is splitting hairs at this point.
I for one did say a prayer that this would come to pass when the Shrine I attended yesterday (a very orthodox one at that) skipped the third verse of Alleiua, Sing to Jesus....WHEN THERE ARE ONLY THREE TO BEGIN WITH!!!!!
Anyway, please tell your friends that if they're planning on swimming over, to PLEASE, bring the choir with them!!!
God Bless,
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Certainly no suprise. I know that Christ Church was sort of looked at as the "holy rollars" in the Dallas diocese. They've been moving this direction for years.