Bandwagoning

I have recently begun to follow a couple of blogs/news sites giving updates on global Anglicanism. My favorite site posted some great quotes yesterday, which I thought I would pass along here.

First, a couple of quotes from leaders in the Episcopal church who are trying desperately to keep conservatives from leaving the mainline fold:

"I am very struck by our failure to communicate."
--Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to clergy of the diocese of South Carolina

This cracks me up! Understatement of the year award slash missing the point entirely!

Meanwhile, in Kentucky...

" 'We're having a family argument,' said [Rev. Katherine] Grieb, a Virginia Theological Seminary biblical scholar and a member of a team drafting a 'covenant' to hold together the Anglican Communion, which consists of the Episcopal Church and other national churches descended from the Church of England.

'There never was a golden age when everybody in the church agreed about everything,' she said at the gathering at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in southwestern Jefferson County."

Ok, true, but as Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon (the man behind my favorite Anglican site) responds:

"It is so very sad to see a ...[Church leader] once again parlaying the ECUSA hierarchy’s offical party line which is: to be Episcopal means to agree to disagree agreeably, we have been through struggles before, and this is yet another struggle through which the church will find her way.

The problem is the hidden theological assumption here that all theological differences are the same. They are NOT."

So true, so true. As Bishop Rogers emphasized at Winter Conference, unity comes through true doctrine, NOT through institutional bonds.

One more quote, this time from the BCP. Apparently yesterday was the Feast of St. Matthias, so although this is a day late, I thought it was worth sharing:

Almighty God, who in the place of Judas chose your faithful servant Matthias to be numbered among the Twelve: Grant that your Church, being delivered from false apostles, may always be guided and governed by faithful and true pastors; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Amen indeed.

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