[fgoodwin]

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[Rytwyng]

Comprising just under two-percent of the United States population, it would be easy to write off the Episcopal Church as a church whose power day is past. Yet, it remains a bellwether organization. In 2003, the Episcopal Church consecrated the openly homosexual Gene Robinson as Bishop of the New Hampshire Diocese

Interesting choice of words: Bellwether. A wether is a castrated ram, and a bellwether is a wether who leads the rest of the flock (and who therefore wears a bell).

[ConservativeMind]

I find this rather hard to believe.

How many colonies had, as their official church, the Episcopal church?

[kiriath_jearim]

Didn’t the Episcopalians eventually comprise most of the Federalist Party, and weren’t they, for the most part, opposed to the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson prior to and during his presidency?

[narses]

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There has been a long and often close relationship between
the Anglican and Catholic Churches. In certain situations
there remains a mutual recognition of the validity of key
doctrines, liturgies, and practices. And the Catholic
Church continues to hold the faith and moral teachings as
taught by the Apostles.

I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy
within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer
is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need
to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.

Resources for those interested in the Catholic faith:

Catholic Answers
www.catholic.com
A superb site for clearing away the myths propagated by too many.
Offers free on-line library that examines all the major issues,
free on-line archive of over 1,500 hours of radio/audio material,
plus magazines, books, pamphlets, tracts, videos, and more.

Coming Home Network
www.chnetwork.org
Provides fellowship, encouragement and support for Protestant
pastors and laymen who are somewhere along the journey or
have already been received into the Catholic Church.

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
www.biblicalcatholic.com
Dave Armstrong's monster site. Eclectic, fun, exhaustingly
detailed, personal, moving, and more.

And may God bless your journey where ever it takes you.

posted on 08/05/2003 5:19 PM PDT by polemikos

[lentulusgracchus]

In 2003, the Episcopal Church consecrated the openly homosexual Gene Robinson as Bishop of the New Hampshire Diocese. This event broke open a torrent that had long been an undercurrent within the Anglican Communion.

Polite speech for a homosexual seminarians' conspiracy to overthrow the church.

Politically active homosexuals have worked for 50 years to obtain by fraud the moral endorsement of a mainline church for their paraphilia. They're after the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Lutherans, too. They know they won't get Rome.

[Huber]

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[PAR35]

more than twenty-five percent of all presidents in the past two and a quarter centuries of American history.

Does that number include President Davis, who was Episcopal?

[Honorary Serb]

“America once an Episcopalian nation”

And the West was once Orthodox Christian!!!!

http://www.orthodoxdetroit.com/

[Andrew Byler]

Demography is destiny.

To populate is to govern.

The decline of the Episcopal Church (and the similar decline of the Congregationalists in New England) is a radical example of what happens to those who practice birth control.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"America once an Episcopalian nation"

It just goes to show that there's more to conservatism than adhering to the religion of one's founders! Look where we'd all be today if we were still an Episcopalian nation!

[x]

They were the Church of England, so if you were English, it was considered to be your church unless you explicitly belonged to another denomination. It was the default setting, so to speak.

But so many other denominations arose and grew because ordinary people didn't feel the Anglican/Episcopalian establishment spoke for them. It looked distant, unconcerned, and tepid about religious faith, so people became Baptists or Methodists or joined another, more evangelical church.

Right now, there's some controversy among historians over which tradition was more important in American history: the older, more established churches like the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists, or more evangelical, enthusiastic, and proselytizing denominations.

[bobjam]

The Episcopal Church, like other “mainline” Protestant denominations, never learned to discipline itself. Until after World War II, the clergy were kept in line by powerful men such as EI DuPont and JP Morgan. Many priests and bishops were essentially their employees, whom they kept in line (JP Morgan would never have tolerated Bps Pike and Spong).

After the war, these controllers faded away and new generations of clerics arose to “play” in their churches with endowments they had left. With neither the gumption nor the mechanism to exercise discipline, the ECUSA hierarchy chose to look the other way as heterodoxy and heresy crept into the seminaries.

The Catholics, Baptists and other Protestants never had a club of wealthy powerbrokers to maintain order. They therefore had to learn to discipline themselves in order to avoid ruin.