We know, it's "episcopalians" but there's something overly stuffy and proper about the term episcopalian. BC prefers to refer to them as The Episcopals, like The Thorn Birds. Draw your own parallels.This weekend two, very smart, awfully good writers address different issues in the Episcopal Church that are really quite similar. The ever grumpy yet eloquent George Will deals with the fracture over homosexuality. While the equally articulate and always graceful Michael Paulson looks at the issue of Open Communion. Church history is fraught with schism rooted in the question of who is in and who is out. Say what you will about the current tension in the Anglican Commmunion, BC contends that it's just one more chapter of the who's in, who's out fight. We hope that all sides remember that no matter how we write our rule books, the big book is pretty clear, like it or not - we all share one bread and one cup.
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sadly, the will article is nothing but talking points supplied by the good (newly anglican) bishop with no thoughtful commentary at all -- excepting a whiff of sadness that the episcopal church ain't what she used to be.
there's also the fact that, in spite of how will portrays the church, if it were just about the abandoning of doctrine for social issues, then the dioceses of pittsburgh, san joaquin and quincy would be growing like wildfire. they are not. they are three of the fastest declining dioceses in the US. not to mention that the whole dIocese of quincy is just a wee bit bigger than the church i attend.
seems to me that mr. will is just trying to get his mind off of the upcoming election. fair enough.
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