Post by angli_fan on Sept 26, 2006 22:01:11 GMT -5
(from D Magazine, the magazine of Dallas)
Stepping to the pulpit for his sermon, the Rev. Canon George Luck struggles with his thoughts, and says so. The 200 or so congregants begin to realize this will not be your ordinary weekend homily. Luck says that he resisted bringing up what is in his heart so much that he realized that is precisely what God wants him to talk about.
...Inside this 1,500-member parish, founded in 1857, throughout the 38,000-member Diocese of Dallas, created in 1895, and among the 2.3 million members of the national Episcopal Church, created during the Revolutionary War, the creaks and moans of an impending denominational implosion reverberate like hell’s own din. Wracked by long-unresolved quarrels over the role of gays and women in its top ranks, the relatively small but culturally influential church (compared to 64 million U.S. Catholics) is on the brink of a breakaway by a small but hardcore conservative faction with powerful links to the Dallas diocese. At issue is the claim to spiritual legitimacy. The breakaway faction says that the national church is actually the one doing the leaving, having abandoned the orthodoxy of the 77 million strong international Anglican Communion, which has been disapproving of the path taken by its American offshoot. To resolve the conflict, the conservative U.S. rebels plan to align directly with the international Anglicans and claim title as true heirs of the Church of England on these shores.
An in-depth article on the state of affairs in the Diocese of Dallas.
www.dmagazine.com//article.asp?articleid=1140
Stepping to the pulpit for his sermon, the Rev. Canon George Luck struggles with his thoughts, and says so. The 200 or so congregants begin to realize this will not be your ordinary weekend homily. Luck says that he resisted bringing up what is in his heart so much that he realized that is precisely what God wants him to talk about.
...Inside this 1,500-member parish, founded in 1857, throughout the 38,000-member Diocese of Dallas, created in 1895, and among the 2.3 million members of the national Episcopal Church, created during the Revolutionary War, the creaks and moans of an impending denominational implosion reverberate like hell’s own din. Wracked by long-unresolved quarrels over the role of gays and women in its top ranks, the relatively small but culturally influential church (compared to 64 million U.S. Catholics) is on the brink of a breakaway by a small but hardcore conservative faction with powerful links to the Dallas diocese. At issue is the claim to spiritual legitimacy. The breakaway faction says that the national church is actually the one doing the leaving, having abandoned the orthodoxy of the 77 million strong international Anglican Communion, which has been disapproving of the path taken by its American offshoot. To resolve the conflict, the conservative U.S. rebels plan to align directly with the international Anglicans and claim title as true heirs of the Church of England on these shores.
An in-depth article on the state of affairs in the Diocese of Dallas.
www.dmagazine.com//article.asp?articleid=1140