[Magdalen] Jeff Sessions Brought Up On Church Charges

[Donald Boyd]

Liturgical style in university and theological schools in general would 
tend to be "higher" than in most congregations.  As my (Methodist 
minister) father would have said, "That's where they'll do things right, 
even if nowhere else."   And I would think that an Easter liturgy being 
televised would likely be the most elaborate of the year (equaled only 
by Christmas Eve, again often observed with a midnight service rarely 
encountered in the average congregation).

Of course my father died in 1981, and since then my mother (who died in 
2003) usually came to our (Episcopal) church when we were together (the 
liturgy she grew up on having closely resembled that of Anglican Morning 
Prayer).  I do not pretend to know what's going on in the Methodist 
world these days.  Official polity may not have changed much, but an 
extremely conservative (or I should say anti-liberal) party within 
Methodist ranks has been highly influential since the 1970's if not 
earlier.  There is  a "Methodist" seminary that is not affiliated with 
the United Methodist Church just as there is an "Episcopal" seminary (or 
more than o ne) not affiliated with TEC but preferred by some bishops.


On 6/22/2018 10:51 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> There seems to be a tremendous difference in the liturgical
> style of USA Methodists.  For example, the clergy albs and
> crucifer with torch bearers leading the procession that are
> depicted in the You Tube Easter segments of the Duke U.
> Methodist Church would positively dumbfound
> the Methodists in the parishes I know in the Upper Midwest
> USA. This is, I suspect, manifested in a variety of theological
> positions.
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> Likewise the high church theology of the official Methodist
> tome, "This Holy Mystery," would evoke "Papist!" cries  from the
> Methodists in the pews almost anywhere in the USA, even though
> it is official church theology.
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> David S.
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> In a message dated 6/22/2018 8:29:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, mcepeda514 at gmail.com writes:
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> Jay he is a member of Ashland Place UMC. It is not what I would consider
> evangelical.
>