[Magdalen] End of an Era.

[Jay Weigel]

I might ask my niece, who has recently moved to Minneapolis and is
apparently doing *something* for the church there in between her theatrical
activities. Not sure what that is, however, she being young and into any
number of things. She and her brother, children of an Episco-Buddhist and a
Minnesota Lutheran, both seem to be faithful Episcopalians.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> What's left of the congregation will have the three remaining TEC
>> churches from which to choose.
>>
>
> Are they all viable? i.e. can they handle the cost of compensating clergy
> no
> more than 25% of pledge and plate, and all routine operating expense and
> maintenance at no more than 30-35% of pledge and plate?
>
> Or are the dominos continuing to fall?
>
> There were so may redundant parishes built in the high church vs low
> church era,
> mainly in battles of ritualism that there are many parishes that just
> haven’t
> been able to go beyond a eking out a meager existence, save for maybe the
> 20
> years immediately following WWII.
>
> In New york, of course, disgruntled vestry members could go to JP Morgan
> and get
> him to finance a new parish down the street from the one with the
> disgruntled
> members.
>
> Until the 1970s, they could co-exist -- often with one offering Morning
> Prayer in its many variants, the other offering Communion every week as
> principal service. Dom Gregory Dix and the changes leading to the 1979 BCP
> pretty much doomed that peaceful coexistence.
>
> Did St Paul have anyone like Morgan who financed all these?
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>