[Magdalen] A Note Re CofE and TEC History

[Molly Wolf]

Scott, I've tried not to name-call, and I want to make it clear that I'm actually very fond of my former fellow-parishioners.  That affection kept me stuck to the place until the Late Unpleasantness with the warden and rector finally knocked me loose.

But a Funeral Society -- which is what a lot of small-town Anglican parishes in this neck of the woods really are -- doesn't merely fail to spread the Gospel; it actually impedes the survival of Anglicanism.  The combination of placid, self-satisfied, self-absorption and refusal to experience any sort of discomfort is counter-evangelical.  It's stale and airless and utterly resistant to the Holy Spirit.

BTW, the Late Unpleasantness resulted from the warden's fury at having her grammar corrected in the parish budget, which she'd asked me to edit.  She had substituted the plural object form ("Bert and me") for the plural subject ("Bert and I") and, when I tried to correct the error, refused to believe that she was wrong, took a royal snit, and triangulated with the rector, with whom she is buddies.  They ended up scapegoating and psychopathologizing me and then communicated this through a third party, while maintaining deniability.  Major no-nos.

I was a professional editor for 20 years until I retired, having worked at high government levels and for sundry university presses.  I also have four books of my own and co-edited three others.  I do know my grammar.

Molly

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

> On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, Scott, I've been following Molly's progress with that and I'm glad
> she's decided not to leave church, just to move churches. If you have never
> been really hurt by a particular branch of the church, you might not know
> how it feels. I do.
> 
>> On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, but this is starting to sound like name-calling. Not liking it.
>> That is all.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Oh yes, the Frozen Chosen. Let 'em freeze in the dark. Come on into the
>>> Light!
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Let the dead bury the dead.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup, he said it.
>>>> -M
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net <javascript:;>
>> <javascript:;>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> A friend calls churches like this "burial societies."
>>