Frozen Chosen: Episcopalians and Anglicans
Clio -- Sunday, June 08, 2003 -- 05:19:17 PMFor discussion of anything related to the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion
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These are the liberal protestants, yes?
Yes.
The General Convention has been skirting around this issue for years. They debate it and then table because it's too divisive. Now, they won't really be able to avoid it because they have to vote on whether or not to approve his election.
These are the liberal protestants, yes?
In America, yes, depending upon what you mean by liberal, of course.
A lot of Anglicans, particularly those who are quite as WASPish, think the Episcopalians aren't liberal, they are heterodox. This feeling is strong enough to create awhole different sort of disruption.
Episcopalian is a fun word to say. Whenever I hear it, I'm reminded of a line from a bad movie. Faced with impending disaster, one character asks the other, "Are you a religious man?" He replies, "Good God no, man, I'm Episcopalian!"
Episcopalians with a dress code?
Where are you?!?!
Oh, we're talking about a very different thing, then. In the US, the Episcopal Church broke off from the Church of England during the Revolution. But it is still very much a part of the Anglican tradition - use a version of the Book of Common Prayer and bishops are ordained in apostolic succession. Like other Anglicans, we consider the Archbishop of Canterbury to be our spiritual leader.
And I feel the need to explain the thread title. It's a joking way my priest refers to Episcopalians - playing on the stereotype of them as staid, upper class, WASPy types who sit stolidly in their pews, revealing no emotion or religious enthusiasm.
InTheRed-
Weird. They certainly aren't part of the general Synod. Most Episcopal churches don't even require women to wear hats to service any longer.
Church dress codes are a special interest of mine.
Wesleyan churches have all kinds of variants that require weird rules or quibble on apostolic gift requirements but High Church is pretty uniform on the outside. Or so I thought. Now I have to go read up on these pentecostal episcopalians.
Clio, I laughed out loud when I saw your thread title, since Father Bob mentioned that very thing in his sermon yesterday. He was riffing on the How Many <insert denomination here> Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
BTW, the Episcopalian answer is three; one to call the electrician, one to mix the drinks, and one to wax nostalgic about the way it used to be.
Heh. My uncle is a Father Bob in the Epicopal church and I can easily see him riffing on jokes in a sermon. And that joke answer is perfect.
In fact, he (my uncle) forwarded a whole bunch of articles on the new archbishop to me today, but I think I just tossed them.
Biscuit: Well, you can imagine that "Church of England" wouldn't be taken very well down here, given the revolution and all. So instead, a hard to spell name.
Oh, I get it, MM - I was actually replying to InTheRed's comment about the really conservative "Episcopalians". I'd just never seen any Epis. up here at all.
I think it's all run by the same big Eastern syndicate, though </Lucy van Pelt>, since the "welcome" signs in front of the Anglican churches here are nearly identical to the Episcopalian ones I've seen in the States.