FOX NEWS: Rev. Gene Robinson Confirmed As Episcopal Church Bishop

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[Guenevere]

We found Christ.....(actually He found us :)

...Our church provided excellent nurturing, teaching and expository preaching and gave us plenty of room to grow.

Thanks :)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I think you are dead on with that statement....... did you happen to see the thread regarding the Gay/Lesbian Church gathering to be held in Philadelphia? I think it was posted Sunday night...... unreal - one night the "women" of the Liberal group are having a "Nite of Passion" and the agenda lists all kinds of sensual/sexual discussions, but not one single spiritual/religious one..........

[zarf]

So what's the point of a religion where the doctrine keeps changing?

[sockmonkey]

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).

I am a member of the founding parish for the Anglican Use within the Roman Catholic Parish.

Our Lady of the Atonement celebrates our 20th anniversary on the Feast of the Assumption. Our Parish entered the RC Church corporately under the Pastoral Provision. Our Priest was an Anglican Priest, but was allowed to become a Roman Catholic Priest. The founding members (eighteen families) and our Priest have no regrets at Crossing the Tiber.

In the past twenty years, our Parish family has grown by leaps and bounds with many cradle catholics, and converts from other faiths, as well as Anglican/Episcopalian converts.

Our liturgy is contained in the Book of Divine Worship which has many elements of the BCP. Our liturgy is fully approved by Rome.

[Destro]

After I posed I remembered. Your point is a good one.

[Petronski]

...a "Nite of Passion" and the agenda lists all kinds of sensual/sexual discussions, but not one single spiritual/religious one...

On another thread (about headlines 50 years in the future) I made a joke about Episcopals adding "liturgical sodomy" to their new 2053 missal. Maybe that joke wasn't so absurd...

[Arkinsaw]

That is true of the hierarchy but not of many, many Episcopal churches and diocese. Why should we let THEM force us out???

Its apparent from the vote today that your resistance has been futile. If you remain now you are remaining by choice and are accepting the vote as a legitimate difference of opinion rather than what it really is.

One wonders just how far down this road many conservatives are willing to travel just to have familiar company.

[July 4th]

NOW ENTERING EPISCOPALIA

Please leave Jesus at the nearest roadside stop.

[PMCarey]

I am not of their creed-but what justification in scripture do they find to accept homosexuality?

The Bible is just a historic text to them now, no more inspired than the latest NY Times editorial. They worship at the altar of political correctness.

[sydney smith]

The episcopal church has become a mockery of Christianity.

[JOHANNES801]

My wife who is a former Rhoadiesian spent the first 27 years of her life living in remote African camps showed this way of worship to me.

[Friend of thunder]

What is the passage that goes "whenever two or more are gathered in my name

Matthew 18:20

[Arkinsaw]

That's the problem. They can't split. The denomination owns the church building and the cemetary

Those things are not the Church. But many will cling to them as if they are.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Ouch....... lol

[k omalley]

"SO whats the point of a religion where the doctrine keeps changing?"

Beats me! I don't know why these folks bother to go to church. My time would be better spent sleeping in on Sunday morning.

[PMCarey]

I dont tie myself to a denomination, I attended a Naz church for a long time but recently I moved and found a Baptist church where sin is not tolerated because its suddenly popular..

Of course you tie yourself to a denomination, but in your case it's a denomination of one with flexible borders.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Isn't that what this openly gay minister was accused of..... Episcopediphilia?

[TBall]

"hate the sin and not the sinner." By approving a homosexual as bishop the church is clearly accepting and embracing the sin. Sure everyone sins, but I just have a hard time seeing how a church can possibly embrace the homosexual lifestyle.

[PMCarey]

So what's the point of a religion where the doctrine keeps changing?

The death of sin, silly.