From South Carolina-“It’s like a divorce,” said Emily Guess, senior warden of Christ Episcopal Church in Denmark. “It hurts my heart.”
“I felt very sad,” said Pinckney Thompson, senior warden of the Church of the Redeemer in Orangeburg. “We love our brothers and sisters who remained.”
Guess and Thompson represent the two arms of a church separated by a huge body of differences.
The Church of the Redeemer is a member of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, which officially separated itself from the national Episcopal Church in November 2012.
Christ Episcopal Church belongs to the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, which continues as a part of the national church.
The groups disagree on numerous issues, including the causes of the rift.
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