[sionnsar]

[The good Reverend Harding hits the nail most squarely on the head! The proximate cause of my departure from PECUSA to a Continuing church a quarter-century ago was my being a delegate to a diocesan convention, and seeing for the first time what was going on outside the purview of the average parishioner. --sionnsar]

[sionnsar]

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[coconutt2000]

The Episcopalian priests I have met have all been very odd. But I must admit that I've only met a few... as in three.

[Wings-n-Wind]

I am not Anglican/Episcopalian....
Just a disciple (small "d")
Part of the whole church (small "c")

I appreciate your faithfulness; posting here all of the difficult issues...

Many of your kindred in the Lord at FR are stirred to fervent prayer by the insights and info.

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[Lurker]

A Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic In Boston.

I think that qualfies as a Democrat Church, don't you?

L

[JimKalb]

Do people really say the Episcopal Church is democratic? What I saw when I was Episcopalian was an extraordinarily abusive management style. The whole point when you dealt with higher ups at any level was for them to show you who was boss. I don't think that's much of an exaggeration. That was in the Diocese of Long Island, though, which seemed to me extraordinarily dysfunctional at the top but also to some degree at every other level.

The idea of a democratic church is ridiculous anyway. Even assuming none of the stuff Harding says applies what you have is a committee or convention made up of professionals (clergy together with lay pros and semipros) together with some well-meaning amateurs who don't have much experience and put most of their time and attention into other things. The professionals will always get their way, and the amateurs will enable them to say that it was all the people's choice adopted after maximum participation etc.