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Someone said something about sharing our Sunday morning experiences.

A pleasant fellow from the New York Times was visiting our parish this morning, and interviewed my wife. Apparently they're spread all over the country....

Although our rector was front and center for the national media last week, we didn't have any discission on the topic today.

The childrens' choir (2nd-6th Grade) just returned from camp, and their performance ("Adam's Apple") took the place of the sermon. And they also did some Handel, Mozart, and Bach -- sweet childrens' voices and beautiful music about God. Doesn't get much better than that.

There was a flyer in the bulletin, which outlined the fact that people could earmark their pledges so that their money wouldn't go to the national church or diocese unless they specifically said so.

Other than that, I think our parish is pretty much going to ignore the last convention, which we consider to be illegitimate.

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I would be very tempted to go that route as well ... staying cosy in my own dear little church and ignoring the national church, but I don't think we will have that option.

It was pretty obvious from Bishop Stanton's letter that he is very serious about taking this diocese out of the National Church.

The Dallas Diocese (this is the case with all diocese) owns the individual churches; the land, the building, the vestments, the silver, all our stuff.

If we didn't want to go along with what is done, we'd have to go worship in a tent. That would be okay if we could find an air conditioned one, but I would opt for going along. I would really like to split from the far-left National Church ... don't like the presiding Bishop and don't like much of what they do.