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To: utahagen
Hey! Good to see you again.

Well, our decision for now is to wait until October, when two important things are going to happen: (1) the orthodox bishops will be meeting in Plano TX to decide on a course of action IIRC Oct. 8-9. (2) the Archbishop of Canterbury has called an emergency meeting Oct. 16 to discuss the subject.

What is decided at those two meetings will determine our direction. If the orthodox bishops ask for and obtain from Canterbury recognition as "the" Episcopal Church in communion with Canterbury, or recognition as a parallel province in communion with Canterbury, we will find a church in that group to join. If not, we will be looking at breakaway Anglican congregations and two local Catholic parishes.

My husband's advice is to wait until October and see how it shakes out, and I have always found his counsel on matters of this sort to be correct (myself, I am ready to march with a pitchfork and blazing torch . . . but I know he's right.)

My mother, who is disgustingly liberal (she can't help it, she's a professional dancer), said to him the other day, "Oh, you're not going to leave the church over this, are you?" He smiled his cheerful smile (the one he smiles as he throws people head over heels in aikido class) and said, "Watch me."

73 posted on 08/26/2003 4:08:13 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
Sorry, Ignore my other thread with questions. I feel the same as your husband about waiting a bit but even so I cannot ignore that 2/3 of the representative voted to override and ignore scripture without any attempt to justify it.

I cannot help but conclude that the governing of our church in all other matters can be anything but corrupt, scripturally speaking.

The thing that keeps me there is I can still help teach others in my local church. For example, just this past week the sunday school teachers met. One of them expressed a desire to bring up that other non christian religions were just as good and valid as ours. I responded that if I were asked to do that I would have a tough time explaining to the children why Jesus had to die on the cross. I think my comment made a light go on in her and others mind. If I leave it could affect those who stay.

84 posted on 08/26/2003 4:56:27 PM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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