26 March 2015 A.D. Episcopal Church—Is This Any Longer a Church One Wants to Join?”
26 March 2015 A.D. Episcopal Church—Is This Any Longer a Church One Wants to Join?” Anglican Communion Institute. “Is This Any Longer A Church One Wants to Join?” Virtueonline.org. 25 Mar 2015. http://virtueonline.org/any-longer-church-one-wants-join . Accessed 25 Mar 2015. Is This Any Longer A Church One Wants To Join? A Plea to the Leaders of the Episcopal Church From the Anglican Communion Institute http://www.communionpartners.org/ March 25, 2015 The Episcopal Church (TEC) is experiencing a precipitous decline in Sunday morning attendance. Without addressing some of its institutional pathologies, TEC will render itself evermore irrelevant. Yet the current proposals to restructure the church ignore its basic problems.1 The present practices, or likely outcomes in the very near future, of TEC raise a number of questions. Here is a sample: ● A proposed modification of the Book of Common Prayer Marriage Rite wherein the rubrics are malleable and...