tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post3394408636145415660..comments2024-03-27T19:11:37.620-04:00Comments on You Don't Say: Unashamed AnglicanismJohn McIntyrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559687583130468871noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-12947468457566155482011-08-06T14:13:47.060-04:002011-08-06T14:13:47.060-04:00I just found your blog, via my favorite site, Stro...I just found your blog, via my favorite site, Strobist. Such lovely portraits of you, by the way. As a cradle episcopalian, in the deep south, I loved reading your sentiments. I'm not sure which one of your thoughts about our church impressed me the most, but one was certainly the part about orderliness and dignity. I particularly love the dignity, along with the history of that. I also enjoyed your part about being able to believe in evolution, etc. as well as the faith. Why must one nullify the other?<br />Thank you for this post. I am going to save it in my collection of 'good things'Kathrynhttp://kgfinephoto.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-29587916805730810852011-03-02T14:11:40.485-05:002011-03-02T14:11:40.485-05:00Having attended your church a few times, while vis...Having attended your church a few times, while visiting in town, I can understand your support of it. Your statements help me understand why my daughter loves being a part of a small church with a large outreach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-64003332760594293882011-03-02T09:38:01.572-05:002011-03-02T09:38:01.572-05:00Somehow I had missed the connection between dowdin...Somehow I had missed the connection between dowdiness and immorality.John McIntyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03559687583130468871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-64611133719915443262011-02-28T12:33:59.141-05:002011-02-28T12:33:59.141-05:00I decided at the time of the False Ordinations, th...I decided at the time of the False Ordinations, that if Betty Bone Schiess, who was an irritating woman even before her entry into the Church, was typical of women priests, that I wanted nothing to do with it - or rather them. Too many of them seem to have followed her lead - and parade about looking like frumps into the bargain. I see nothing in the Canons that require Ordinands to look like unmade beds - most of the male clergy are neat and clean - so why the women should drag themselves about this way is a mystery (not one of the great ones) to me. As for same-sex marriage,etc, when the Church, parts of which I love, gets herself up to her ears in lefty politics, we part company. The Church is, or should be, based upon faith and morals. When you have thinned out the moral requirements,it isn't long before the other begins to look shakey.Patricia the Tersenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-34419281854335892322011-02-28T06:30:27.829-05:002011-02-28T06:30:27.829-05:00I hope a nonbeliever can make a comment without se...I hope a nonbeliever can make a comment without seeming impertinent.<br /><br />Living in rural England I have a particular relationship with Anglicanism, because among the great gifts of the English church (in addition of course to the BCP and the KJV) is the ancient beauty of its architecture, which almost defines an English landscape rolling from village to village, tower to spire. And it would be difficult to exaggerate the value of those churches, as buildings and communities, to the villages they serve.<br /><br />Your words about the Anglican "indulgence of intelligence" reminded me of reading reports of the English church's fruitful conversations with Old Catholics, European Lutherans and Evangelicals, and British Methodists: conversations which have been characterised by a search for understanding which is not always prominent when churches pronounce on their creeds and orders.Pickynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-24557046078455554052011-02-27T18:36:57.545-05:002011-02-27T18:36:57.545-05:00Way back in 1958 in Little Rock, the Bishop of the...Way back in 1958 in Little Rock, the Bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas stepped forward to support integration of the public schools--made the rest of us Arkansas Episcopalians realize that integration was a moral issue, not a political one.BlogBroadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06605294163191243496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-26622170886018394852011-02-27T16:26:58.492-05:002011-02-27T16:26:58.492-05:00The Romish doctrine of Purgatory, of course, is qu...The Romish doctrine of Purgatory, of course, is <a href="http://anglicanhistory.org/tracts/tract90/fulltext.html" rel="nofollow">quite distinct from the Roman one</a> (see section 6).John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com