danpitts.bsky.social
Episcopalian, ex-military, fly fisherman.
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I’ve taken this at least a dozen times. I think I’ve gotten Old High each time.
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I’m no ethicist, but corporate-style ethics, which generally pretends to be agnostic about all but “universal human values” strikes me as historically illiterate.
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I and the rest of the Vestry had to push back against this in my parish. The clergy lovingly accepted our push-back, but I just can’t understand being willing to advertise one’s intent to violate the canons in the bulletin.
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3: namely English, Spanish, Greek
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I’m going to sound like a crazy libertarian here (I’m not), but I think some small minority of people resent the civic value provided by churches precisely because the state isn’t providing it. Replacing church-supplied social services with tax-funded ones seems a net negative.
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Sometimes I think it’s a rubric of “it was revealed to me in a dream”. Or maybe the Holy Spirit directing choices. Both equally likely, I reckon.
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Cooperstown, NY
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Will you be ordained to the diaconate while still in seminary? I know it varies by diocese.
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Not to mention their cool old church. Like bro we took those over in the reign of good king Henry
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Me please! About two-thirds of the way through COM.
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I don’t know what a feed is, but this sounds like a thing for me (TEC)
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In my experience, esp. in traditions where the creeds are not a part of regular Sunday worship, he actually *does* need to correct people about this. Maybe not within Anglicanism, but his reach is far wider than that.
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It just seems like a really weird thing to get hung up on. To the extent that (a) I can’t impact it, and (b) my daily calling isn’t impacted by the answer to this question, I kinda just…don’t care?
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Assuming you’re talking about TN, I think it’s partially cost of living and partially just Evangelical culture
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I still haven’t recovered from Father Brown wearing a maniple as a stole, over a surplice.
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It’s a shame, and I think driven by our image of ourselves as a place for disaffected RCs and Evangelicals.
Among growing parishes, very little of the growth is from previously un-Christian people.
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And I know brown shoes aren’t entirely kosher, but what can I say? I’m something of an ecclesiastical bad boy