[Magdalen] Mass e-mails, was Test

[Molly Wolf]

I don't know what it is about churches.  I just know that I'm sick almost to spiritual death of church politics, which seem to be full of inflated ego-needs and power toxicity. I had a nasty run-in not long ago which finally did me in.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Scott, I will keep you and Ascension in my prayers.  What is it about churches anyway?!?!?!  No place seems to be immune from the evil that is always lurking in the shadows, ready to leap out and disrupt.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
>> On 4/8/2015 2:43 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> One parishioner who left as soon as the organist and choirmaster were let
>> go let it be known a $2M bequest was leaving with him. I care not and would
>> rather not know such things,  but he apparently wanted us to know that to
>> lose him as a member is worse than to lose someone else.  But he wouldn't
>> be satisfied unless we called an old-time closeted rector with a particular
>> personality, as though that were essential to a Catholic parish. It
>> certainly ain't.
>> 
>> What saddens me is that people with whom I was on friendly terms have
>> started avoiding me because I'm not on the Save Ascension list. And I will
>> not participate in coffee-hour gossip about it. I'm sick of the conspiracy
>> theories, demonizing, lies about an "empty" church and choir loft (not
>> remotely true), and brickbats thrown from afar by folks who haven't been at
>> the church in years or ever but are sure they know what is behind the staff
>> changes, a sinister plot worthy of a bestseller.
>>> On Apr 8, 2015 10:54 AM, "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That reminds me a lot of what happened when a few people in my late
>>> parents' church (ironically also named Ascension) took offense at the
>>> electon of +Gene Robinson in NH and in a rump meeting of *part* of the
>>> vestry, decided that none of those awful gay people were going to infest
>>> their sacred environs and put out a mass e-mail to that effect. My parents
>>> were furious, as was the clergy, but it did cause a split in the church and
>>> they lost some big contributors. The parish remains, however, the largest
>>> in the diocese.
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