We hear a lot about how far the Episcopal Church has strayed from orthodoxy. Here's a piece by an Episcopal Priest in Washington D.C. which seems to suggest otherwise. Incidentally his answer to the title question is "yes".A church that means business speaks to this crisis of meaning head on and is unafraid to talk of being saved. It encourages people to articulate their doubt, not just about this church teaching or that, but about the value and ultimate meaning of our fragile human lives on this little blue planet circling as a speck in a galaxy that is merely one of billions.
When I hear the gospel addressed to me in the midst of this vertigo of doubt, and accept its poignant insistence that our lives are meaningful because they are what God meant, and that we mean everything to him, and that he means to take us into his life by uniting us to the one who suffered with us and for us, whom he raised from the dead, I can say “This is what it means to be saved, and I want others to receive the same gift.”
http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/theology/are_we_still_in_the_salvation.php
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Yes, there are still a few priests in pecusa that preach the gospel. That has never been in doubt. What is also not in doubt is the overall liberal leadership and direction of pecusa. pecusa continues to walk apart from the Anglican Communion and deeper into liberal protestant sectarianism. Trotting out a few theologically orthodox priests is an attempt to hide the larger picture.
When some theologically orthodox priests formally trot out as a group, after years of informal trotting out of opportunities to talk to other bishops when they meet, they do nothing to affect that "larger picture" except to dodge their responsibility to witness and teach.
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