From The Living Church-
I don’t care much for work travel. I am loath to
be away from my wife and three children in Wichita, Kansas, for much
more than a weekend, and on those few occasions when my work requires it
I tend to approach the ordeal with all the enthusiasm of a condemned
man approaching the scaffold.
When I was sent in mid-December to spend 12 days in Dallas, however, a
real measure of anticipation offset my usual sullenness. As a
theological conservative, I was glad for the chance to worship in the
Diocese of Dallas, a diocese not only founded and built by one of my
heroes (Bishop Alexander C. Garrett), but one in which several
contemporary leaders and writers I highly esteem are resident: Bishop
George Sumner, Victor Lee Austin, William Murchison, as well not a few
regular contributors to Covenant and The Living Church.
I planned to spend my Sunday in town at Church of the Incarnation, a
large parish near uptown Dallas. As a lover of the Anglican choral
tradition, I had long wanted to hear its renowned choir. My excitement
only increased when I found the parish would offer its annual service of
Nine Lessons and Carols that Sunday. The service did not disappoint,
and I called my wife afterward, flooding her with adjectives of
increasing superlative intensity and insisting that henceforth we just had to make visiting Incarnation it a yearly occurrence.
More here-
https://livingchurch.org/covenant/2019/01/25/losing-anglicanism-and-finding-repentance/?fbclid=IwAR0hFirNB6p36kwVvcYIjXhrId4uiOPfGnB9lpiByOBXa3n5yPi9OfDEYSI
Opinion – 21 December 2024
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