St. John's Episcopal Church
From Margaret at Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flang It:
The Episcopal Church was born today in 1785 --in Philadelphia... What a terrifying and exhilarating time those post-Revolutionary war years must have been --establishing and experimenting with new governmental forms --and in the church, we became autonomous from the Church of England. (Well --at least that's the myth...) And, some clergy concluded that their ordination vows required them to remain loyal to the crown and the bishops who ordained them, and they fled to places where the crown and their bishops still ruled.
And, of course, you should click on over to Margaret's blog and read the rest. She speaks her thoughts on matters of authoriteh and more.
I thank God for the Episcopal Church, warts and all, where I found a home after 60-plus years in another denomination. At the very first service I attended at St. John's Episcopal Church, after several months in the wilderness, I felt as though I had come home.
Well as a TEC lifer, I can tell ya Mimi, how HAPPY we are to have ya! :-D
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Awww, JCF, thanks. I'm happy to be your sister Episcopalian.
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