Gay clergy ordinations and marriage will take their toll which is just starting to mount. Don’t expect it to lose momentum either. The ’second’ wave of Episcopal churches are looking elsewhere because of these very issues.
A “good-sized second wave” of at least eight conservative Northeast Florida churches will be following six that have already quit the Episcopal Diocese of Florida to realign themselves with Worldwide Anglican Communion, two local priests said Friday.
As the Episcopal Church heads toward their convention things will certainly heat up.
A new darkness is descending over the Episcopal Church as it heads towards General Convention later this year.
The pleas for unity have for many years been based solely on exclusivity and not upon the truth they are responsible to stand for. This is becoming increasingly painful for more congregations and leaders who still hold to more biblical positions on such issues.
In England a leading member of the Anglican Church exchanged vows with his ‘longtime’ partner.
(London) A leading member of the Anglican Church has exchanged vows with his longtime partner with his bishop and the dean of his cathedral in attendance - a move likely to further infuriate conservatives in the worldwide church….
A spokesperson for the diocese defended the presence of the two.
“This was a civil partnership ceremony and there was no religious involvement,” he said. “It followed exactly the legal requirements and the guidelines of the Church of England.”
The only statement that was correct in all of this was one who said there was ‘no religious involvement.’ There hasn’t been any ‘religious’ involvement by such leaders for sometime. At least this much is becoming obvious to numerous congregations.
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