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.
>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.<
How are you and your church different from the ones with homosexual clergy?
>>Would becoming Anglican affect that?<<
You ARE Anglican (at least for a little while longer) - you are not BECOMING Anglican. Perhaps it was a slip of the tongue, but it makes a fine point about how The Episcopal Church & Episcopalians have become so egocentric & distanced from the rest of the Anglican Communion that they don't even regard themselves as Anglican anymore. Some could say that The Episcopal Church started walking apart from the Anglican Communion 40 years ago & has, at every turn over the years, gone to great lengths to disassociate itself from Anglican doctrine, faith, & morals. When a majority of people in The Episcopal Church see themselves at Episcopalians & not Anglicans, it should really come as no surprise that they should callously pursue their own agenda, without regard for the welfare of their erstwhile brothers & sisters in the rest of the world.