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To: AnalogReigns

I was unaware that there was such a wide latitude of religious practice in the Episcopal Church.


28 posted on 02/20/2012 7:24:33 AM PST by wintertime (Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion center.)
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To: wintertime
I was unaware that there was such a wide latitude of religious practice in the Episcopal Church.

Actually, in the last 20 or 30 years there's been a serious narrowing of acceptable religious practice within The (official) Episcopalian Church (TEC). More and more, if a pastor objects to the official Politically Correct line (female priests & bishops....as well as--much worse--active homosexual priests and bishops....) dictated from the NYC offices of TEC, they will be marginalized or even force to leave. In particular, they have squeezed out traditional conservative/orthodox Christians--either from the evangelical/biblical side (so called "low church) or (and especially) the Anglo-Catholic ("high church") side.

Very few Anglo-Catholic congregations remain Episcopal...

Over the last 20 or 30 years, membership of TEC has reduced by over 30%--and the average age of members today is somewhere over 60. TEC is literally dying.

31 posted on 02/20/2012 10:03:00 AM PST by AnalogReigns (because REALITY is never digital...)
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