[Magdalen] Whoops. We've got the Southern slavers' battle flag in the National Cathedral.

[ME Michaud]

There are a couple of startlingy dysfunctional AME churches
here. St. Paul's isn't one of them, however.

Attributable in part to strong leadership and a continuing sense
of its own history, and in part to the excellent public schools in
Cambridge, and, of course, other factors.
-M

On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> I thought the part about a "functional church" interesting. I've never
> heard the term "dysfunctional church" applied to AME (or AME Zion or the
> other flavors, not to mention Church of Christ or the other national
> historic Black Churches. Not saying there aren't some out there, but
> hearing that dysfunction phrase applied to TEC, Presbyterian, Methodist,
> RC, UCC and even UUs and Jewish Synagogues, I think there may be something
> telling there.
>
>