[Magdalen] Christ the King Anglican

[Jon Egger]

I attended an Anglican (ACNA) Church funeral for the matron of one of our
church families.

July.  No air conditioning.  (I was glad that I took my larger portable
oxygen.) 1928 BCP.

Black vestments and hangings on the pulpit and lectors stand.  Fiddleback
chasuble.

Four of us TEC clergy sat together.  We were all stunned.  No use of the
word Alleluia in the service.   It was all depressing.

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:54 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Episcopal Church isn't all like on Long Island.
>
> I met a chaplain, an Episcopal priest, and a good guy, whose general
> demeanor was more like a Southern Baptist.  He was from the South, and I
> can only assume it worked well for him.
>
> However, if anyone is feeling depressed, I read the Gallup poll people
> performed a poll purported to pick up the particulars of belief in
> inerrancy.
>
> Turns out 27% believe the Bible's the perfect word of God, 47% think it's
> kinda inspired by God and the rest think it's just fairy tales of old dead
> guys (well, the terms were a little different, but you get my drift).  They
> polled 1000 souls.
>
> The good people of Biblical Archaeology Review wondered if their readers
> were different, so they conducted their own poll, using the same wording,
> and got responses from three thousand readers, and the stats were
> essentially the same.
>
> I guess it's a half-full, half-empty dichotomy.  One can say it's good that
> only a quarter of the people believe that BS about the Bible being the
> inerrant word of God, while others get depressed thinking that a quarter of
> the general population can be that stupid.
>
> I kind of take heart that half of everybody really truly gets it -- that
> the bible is a pearl of great price, but it comes to us through human
> agency, and is heir to all the pitfalls and problems included in that
> package.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: ME Michaud
> >
> > Bob began his semon with a rousing "Take back America."
> >
> > Dog whistle for get rid of the Kenyon they don’t call it the White House
> > for nuthin' you know.
> >
> > Some church.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jim Guthrie
> >
>