[Magdalen] "leaving church" was -->Re: Prayer request

[Jay Weigel]

It depends, Jim. In some places, Broad Church means "we're the only one one
in town, so we make an effort to accommodate everybody." That might be a
foreign concept to someone who's never lived where most Episcopal churches
are small and are often composed of a mix of cradle Episcopalians, folks in
mixed marriages (often, where I grew up, that meant Catholic-Lutheran),
divorced Catholics, and assorted other Protestants with high church
leanings.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> some years but left that because n his heart he is uber Anglo-Catholic.
>> Much of the congregation is dismayed -- he's so Ca-a-athlick..  But as
>>
>
> Most lay people tend to think of "Broad Church" as halfway between high
> church and low church; most clergy tend to mean "Scripture Broadly
> interpreted."
>
> So search committees and vestries and prospective clerics often seem to be
> talking past each other.
>
> Though in your example Marion, I'm hearing the vestry conversation now,
> "Well, he says he's high church Anglican, but he was a Presbyterian. How
> "high" could he possibly be?"
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>