[Magdalen] Jeff Sessions Brought Up On Church Charges

[Charles Wohlers]

Indeed, that's what's used. It's actually mostly a hymnal.

My impression of Methodists in Massachusetts is that they're basically very 
low-church Episcopalians. Communion is once a month, and otherwise the 
service is indeed much like Morning Prayer - although the service isn't as 
"rote" as it is in the Book of Common Prayer.

Methodists in New England, by and large, ignore the strictures on gays as 
much as they can. My impression on the "no gays" issue in the Methodist 
Church is that it's driven by the Africans, and Methodist discipline is 
Church-wide, not Province-wide as it is with Anglicans.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Eleanor Braun
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 1:36 PM
To: Magdalen
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Jeff Sessions Brought Up On Church Charges

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Eleanor



On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was thinking they had a book of services like the Lutherans and
> Episcopalians. Is that not the case?
>
> > On Jun 21, 2018, at 11:41 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > It is well known, however, that southern Methodists tend to be more
> conservative.
> > It is their opposition that has kept the UMC from marrying gays and
> lesbian couples,
> > I am told by members of the Methodist "Affirmation" group.
> >
> > I've mentioned before on this list my astonishment at the general
> development
> > of loose, informal liturgies in Methodist churches.  When I was growing
> up
> > Methodist worship in the Upper Midwest USA, at least, was essentially
> like
> > Episcopal Morning Prayer.  Now Methodists have gone all informal chatty.
> >
> >
> > David S.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/20/2018 11:43:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> > David, I could be wrong, but I think I read that he was a Baptist before
> becoming a Methodist. I don’t say that to malign Baptists in any way, but
> their style has tended to be more evangelical and fundamentalist than
> Methodists, and that sometimes sticks.
>