Ruddy-cheeked Scot new leader of Dallas’ Temple Emanu-El

From Dallas-

It sounds like the start of a corny joke. Did you hear about the Episcopalian who becomes president of a Jewish temple?

It’s no joke, but Scott McCartney admits, “My family thinks it’s hilarious.”

Let’s just call it deliciously different that a ruddy-cheeked chap of Scottish descent is now leader of Temple Emanu-El, the oldest and largest Jewish congregation in Dallas.

Even he had to poke fun at his “Jewish name” during the installation ceremony earlier this month.
Scott, 53, is the first Jewish convert to head the venerable congregation. And the Temple Emanu-El family seems to know it has a gem in him.

“Scott is universally respected,” said Rabbi David Stern. “He’s caring. He’s smart. He’s dedicated. He’s humble. He’s a mensch.”

I have known Scott a long time, and I have to agree. He is a mensch, though he would bring to mind British long before Yiddish.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/steve-blow/20130427-ruddy-cheeked-scot-new-leader-of-dallas-temple-emanu-el.ece

Bishop unlikely to allow same-sex blessings in Dallas Episcopal diocese

From Dallas-


The heavily LGBT congregation at The Episcopal Church of St. Thomas the Apostle likely won’t be able to bless same-sex relationships even if a resolution allowing the blessings passes at the July General Convention in Indianapolis.

Bishops will decide whether to allow the blessings in their dioceses, making Dallas parishes doubt that they’ll be performing them anytime soon.

The Rev. Stephen Waller, openly gay rector at St. Thomas, said he hasn’t even requested permission from the Dallas bishop to perform the blessing because he doesn’t think it would be granted.

“We would not be given such permission by our diocese,” Waller said. “I can’t speak for the bishop, but I suspect he will toe the line and not grant permission. Our bishop has been pretty clear that he didn’t want to do that.”

Dallas Diocese Bishop James Stanton didn’t return calls this week requesting a comment about the resolution.

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http://www.dallasvoice.com/bishop-same-sex-blessings-dallas-episcopal-diocese-10117724.html

Homeless advocate with the unforgettable name is retiring

From Dallas-

The homeless simply know her as “Rev. Bubba.”

The Rev. Beulah Dailey started helping the homeless decades ago by delivering blankets under bridges.

And now, the Episcopal priest with the unforgettable nickname plans to retire after working for 28 years at the Austin Street Centre. Dailey, the Dallas shelter’s executive director since 1998, plans to step down in October.

The leader is well-known for her work running the shelter with her husband, the Rev. Harry Dailey, co-director. The couple met when Harry was homeless and came to the shelter for help. He later was ordained.

Austin Street has grown from an emergency shelter to a campus that includes transitional housing, a non-denominational chapel, thrift store and a program to help people prepare to find jobs.

Austin Street’s board of trustees will begin a national search for Rev. Bubba Dailey’s replacement.

“It is time to begin a new chapter in my life,” she said. “More than 400 men, women and children find shelter here each day. It has been an honor for me to know these souls and to provide a place of solace to them. I am very grateful for having the opportunity to do what I was absolutely born to do, to care for the least of these.”

Austin Street is one of 24 nonprofits that receive donations through The Dallas Morning News Charities program. The charities (charities.dallasnews.com) solicits donations through Jan. 31.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20110127-homeless-advocate-with-the-unforgettable-name-is-retiring.ece

Three Dioceses Question Title IV Changes

From Anglicans United-

With varying degrees of force, three dioceses – Dallas, South Carolina and Western Louisiana – have expressed their concerns about revisions to Title IV of the Episcopal Church’s canons. All three dioceses express concerns about the revised Title IV granting greater authority to the church’s presiding bishop over other bishops, and to diocesan bishops over their clergy, amid accusations of misconduct.

The Diocese of South Carolina adopted seven resolutions that either delete references to the Episcopal Church’s canons, or specify that the diocese recognizes those canons only through 2006.

The annual convention of the Diocese of Dallas voted to study revisions to Title IV for the next several months and to reconvene in early summer to act on conclusions of that study.

“The more we looked at Title IV, we began to realize what we have here is a constitutional crisis,” said the Rt. Rev. James M. Stanton, Bishop of Dallas. “Much of our concern has to do with due process for clergy and protections for clergy.”

Bishop Stanton said his vocation has been guided by a principle he heard in a seminary course with the Rev. Dr. Massey H. Shepherd: “Canon law exists to protect the people from their clergy and the clergy from their bishops.”

“When you are liable to be charged for failing to report something that may have been an offense, you’re opening the door to all kinds proceedings,” Stanton added. “I think it’s important for every diocese, and clergy especially, to look very carefully at this.”

The Diocese of Western Louisiana adopted a canon that places the diocese in conformity with the new Title IV, but also called on General Convention to reconsider the revisions to Title IV.

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http://www.anglicansunited.com/?p=8954

Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity

From The American Spectator-

Virginia's Supreme Court recently ruled against conservative former Episcopal Church congregations trying to keep their property as members of a new theologically orthodox Anglican denomination. Hundreds of local churches across America are agonizing over whether to remain in the old and increasingly heterodox Episcopal Church or depart, potentially losing venerable church properties.

Former Dallas Morning News editor and current syndicated columnist William Murchison remains in the old denomination. He published his book about the Episcopal Church just in time for the denomination's implosively historic 2009 General Convention, which officially sanctioned gay clergy and same-sex unions. Himself a long-time active Episcopalian in the theologically orthodox Diocese of Dallas, and partial to the church's Anglo-Catholic wing, Murchison sagely traces the church's fall from America's most culturally elite church to an increasingly marginal, though still highly entertaining religious sideshow.

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http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/03/killing-a-church

Updated: Dallas Affirms Anglican Covenant

From The Living Church-

Delegates to a special convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas voted March 6 to adopt and enter into the Anglican Covenant.

The move makes the 30,000-member North Texas diocese among the first dioceses (Central Florida is another) to affirm the Covenant’s call for mutual accountability among worldwide Anglicans.

Delegates also voted 185–101 to disassociate the diocese from General Convention actions last summer that have led to more public blessings of same-sex couples.

The votes followed a call by the chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council to renounce the notion that the gospel “is all about us.”

“The hour is getting late,” said the Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga, Bishop of Southern Malawi, quoting lyrics from Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.”

“Time for our games is running out,” the bishop added. “In fact, I believe it has run out already. It is time to focus on Jesus. … It is not about you but about Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

The diocese’s adoption of the Covenant — irrespective of what the Episcopal Church might decide someday on the matter — carried heavily by voice vote.

The convention earlier adopted, 176–147, a motion to affirm diocesan membership not just in the Anglican Communion but also in the Episcopal Church — a signal that the Rt. Rev. James Stanton’s commitment to keep the diocese in the church enjoys majority support.

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http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/3/6/dallas-affirms-anglican-covenant

Episcopal cathedral celebrates restoration, return of copy of painting

From Dallas-

After 18 months of painstaking restoration, a 19th-century reproduction of Spanish painter Bartolomé Murillo's The Holy Family was reinstalled Tuesday in St. Matthew's Cathedral in Old East Dallas.

The 6-foot-by-8-foot oil painting, purchased in 1873 by a New York woman traveling through Europe, was a fixture at the Episcopal church for more than 70 years until it was taken down to be cleaned.

"It's like an old friend coming back to us," said the Rev. Kevin Martin, dean of the cathedral.

The painting depicts Mary and Elizabeth with their young sons, Jesus and John the Baptist. Above them are the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove and God as a bearded figure with hands outstretched. Murillo's 1620 painting, also known as The Virgin of Seville, is part of the Louvre's collection in Paris.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-painting_03met.ART.State.Edition1.4c11788.html

Jubilee in Southeast Dallas

From The Living Church-

How might an affluent Episcopal church celebrate its Jubilee anniversary? Would it commission another stained glass window, expand its facilities, redo the landscaping, upgrade its parking lots?

All those options were on the table in 1997 when members of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, started thinking about its birthday bash. But then something strange happened. The celebration committee decided to put suggestion boxes around the church, and hundreds of parishioners cast their votes, and chose, overwhelmingly, to make a substantial investment in people living beyond the church’s upscale neighborhood. Members of the anniversary committee put away the silver service and got out their work gloves.

We had no money to invest, and scarcely knew where to begin. So we stepped out in faith — determined, by God’s grace, to transform the lives of others in need. Of course, we have ourselves been transformed, beyond our wildest imagining.

First we chose a neighborhood: Fair Park, a 62-block neighborhood in southeast Dallas, just 15 minutes from Saint Michael’s. The focal point of the neighborhood was a bar. There were several drug houses. The elementary school rated the lowest in the entire city. Many senior citizens were living there because they had no other place to go, but were afraid to go outside due to violent crime.

After the committee shared its vision with the parish, donations began rolling in. Working with AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity and the Greater Dallas Community of Churches, St. Michael’s acquired five acres to build a beautiful park, on lots formerly covered in whiskey bottles, syringes and trash.

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http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/2/26/jubilee-in-southeast-dallas

Comparative Christology in Dallas

From the Living Church-

Sparks glowed and winked only momentarily on Dec. 12 when the Episcopal Church’s longest-serving evangelical bishop and its Presiding Bishop discussed the Second Person of the Trinity.

With the Diocese of Dallas’ two traditionalist bishops listening from the front row, the Most Rev. Jefferts Schori and the Rt. Rev. William C. Frey delivered modulated addresses on set topics: “Who is Christ for Me?” and “Who is Christ for the World?”

Only in response to questions did the presiding bishop cause, a couple of times, any considerable shaking of heads in an audience of more than 500 at the Church of St. Michael & All Angels, for decades one of the Episcopal Church’s largest and wealthiest parishes.

One questioner sought her views on the value of protecting unborn life. Bishop Jefferts Schori said the issue of abortion “raised the tragic question of whose life and privileges” deserved to triumph, the mother’s or the unborn child’s. She left the matter at that, philosophically speaking.

Another questioner brought up the bodily resurrection of Christ. Did she believe there had been one? She had (clearly) not been there herself, she said. The disciples believed it had happened. She went on: “The only permanent healing is the Resurrection of Christ.”

In one of her lectures she called Jesus’ sacrificial death “a fully divine participation in humanity, a making-holy (which is what sacrifice means) of the meaning of his life, and all human life.” Thus: “The resurrection is sacramental fruit of sacrifice.”

Bishop Frey, who was expelled from Guatemala by a military junta in 1971, said the church’s work is not limited to social engagement.

“[E]vangelism is our primary calling,” Bishop Frey said. “It would sell Jesus short to imply that he’s simply an example for us to follow, or another one of the world’s moral teachers. He’s a doer — the one who acts with power to transform us from what we are to what we can become.”

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http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2009/12/16/comparative-christology-in-dallas

No fireworks at Episcopal bishops' debate in North Dallas

From The Dallas Morning News-

One bishop spoke deliberately, professorially, with flashes of droll humor and poetic phrasing. The other told stories from his long ministerial career, rounding them off with insights into Christian faith and practice.

"I heard a great deal of convergence," Frey said afterward.

The three-hour Saturday morning event packed the 700-seat sanctuary of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in North Dallas, which brought the speakers in as part of a lecture series.

Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal Church's first female presiding bishop, has been criticized by theological conservatives on a number of fronts, including for refusing to say that belief in Jesus is the only way to heaven.

The Rev. Robert Dannals, rector of Saint Michael and All Angels, sought to balance the program with Frey, a longtime leader of the Episcopal Church's traditional wing.

That wasn't enough for one local Episcopal priest, who said he and five colleagues wrote a letter to Bishop James Stanton of the Diocese of Dallas, protesting his decision to allow Jefferts Schori's visit. (Under Episcopal law, a diocesan bishop must give permission for a working visit by another bishop.)

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/DN-episcopal_13met.ART.Central.Edition1.4bd941e.html

Episcopal bishop seeks prayer in rift over gays

From AP-

The Episcopal Church should respond with "prayer and discernment" to the recent election of a lesbian priest as an assistant bishop of the Los Angeles diocese, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said Saturday.
Although the Rev. Mary Glasspool of Baltimore was elected earlier this month, she must be approved by a majority of Episcopal dioceses before she can be consecrated, and that could take several months, said Jefferts Schori, the church's head.

"The process isn't finished until it's finished," she said.

The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the United States. In 2003, it caused an uproar by consecrating its first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

The following year, Anglican leaders asked the Episcopal Church to hold off on electing another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break in the fellowship.

But in July, the U.S. church's top policy making body affirmed that gay and lesbian priests were eligible to become bishops despite pressure from other Anglicans.

The Archbishop of Canterbury called for gracious restraint on the matter, but Jefferts Schori said Saturday that "there was never any time frame attached to that request."

She added that she didn't know whether six years was long enough to wait but "the church is in the process of discerning that."

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzw85Io7SKBEfEHOweJ2KcTOw0cwD9CI2HBG0

Ex-stockbroker leaves priesthood amid Dallas Episcopal scandal

From the Dallas Morning News-

The man at the center of the Dallas Episcopal Diocese's clergy-discipline scandal has quit the priesthood, church officials said Tuesday.

The Rev. William Warnky's resignation ends a church inquiry that kicked into high gear last month after a Dallas Morning News investigation revealed a series of problems: He defrauded an ex-parishioner while serving as his stockbroker, lost his securities license, failed to pay child support, was put on probation for contempt of court and didn't pay federal income taxes.

"He made the decision that could have been made for him," said Bishop Suffragan Paul Lambert, the diocese's No. 2 official. But "we weren't [yet] in a position to judge his guilt or innocence."

Warnky, who was the part-time priest in charge of Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, near White Rock Lake, declined to comment.

He did not cite specific reasons for his resignation, Lambert said.

"He did it for the benefit of the church," the bishop said.

By renouncing his vows as a priest and not being defrocked, Warnky leaves open a window for returning to the ministry. Lambert called that only a theoretical possibility, because Dallas Bishop James Stanton and his counterparts in five surrounding dioceses would all have to approve.

Lambert described himself as exhausted by a long day of meetings and many days of dealing with unhappy situations.

"I feel like I've been rode hard and put up wet," he said.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/090809dnmetepiscopal.15e3d6d90.html

Another Dallas Episcopal priest suspended

From The Dallas News-

Dallas Episcopal Bishop James Stanton's list of problem priests isn't limited to the Rev. William Warnky (right), who, as I reported in yesterday's paper, has been suspended in recent days from both ministry and securities trading because he owes an ex-parishioner $50,000 for stock fraud.

I learned today that two months ago, Stanton quietly stripped the Rev. Keith Roberson (below right) of his collar for three years for "conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy."

Here's a partial translation that I coaxed out of Stanton's top aide, Bishop Suffragan Paul Lambert: The conduct was directed at women at the Terrell church where Roberson worked, Good Shepherd. "It was more harassment than anything," and "it was nothing physical."

Roberson declined to comment today. He runs an optical repair business in Fort Worth called J.R. Optical, whose Web site says:

"I am an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church and I uphold the values and character traits associated with a life of personal commitment and service to the Lord. I live by the Scripture verse 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' I am honest, open, professional, congenial, and stand by my word."

Lambert acknowledged that Roberson previously left another parish -- he wouldn't say which one -- amid controversy. "It was a bad match," he said. "It was not sexual harassment."

Years ago, Roberson also worked briefly as a fill-in priest at Good Samaritan, where Warnky was the priest in charge until this week. It hasn't been decided yet how long Warnky will be out of ministry.

http://watchdogblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/08/another-dallas-episcopal-pries.html

Dallas priest suspended over stock-fraud case

From the Dallas Morning News-

Dallas Episcopal Bishop James Stanton (right) confirmed today that he has suspended a priest-stockbroker who, as I reported Sunday, owes an ex-parishioner/ex-client $50,000 for securities fraud.

Stanton said he was unaware of what I discovered late yesterday: A Dallas judge put the Rev. William Warnky (below right) on 10 years of probation in 2006 for contempt of court after he failed to pay about $50,000 in child support to his second wife.

Warnky should have disclosed this to Dallas Episcopal Diocese leaders, the bishop said.

"Mercy," he added. "That is a very serious matter."

This spring, the Texas attorney general's office sought to jail Warnky because of continuing child-support failures. The judge let him stay on probation. Warnky has been making payments since, the AG's office said.

The priest declined to comment today. He led services Sunday at his church, Good Samaritan, which is a few blocks south of White Rock Lake. Stanton said his suspension from ministry took effect Monday.

http://watchdogblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/08/dallas-priest-suspended-over-s.html

Good Stuf in TEC: Dallas

Cult Awareness, Spiritual Abuse, and Recovery Presentation Saturday, June 20th

2:00-4:00 pm

Mary Stuart Hall

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

1200 North Shiloh, Garland, 75042

On Saturday, June 20, 2009 from 2:00-4:00, Doug and Wendy Duncan will give a presentation on cult awareness, spiritual abuse, and recovery at St.
Barnabas Episcopal Church in Garland. The Duncans are former members of a Bible-based cult.

Wendy is a licensed social worker and holds a master's degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is also the author of I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult, the true story of the couple's involvement in and eventual separation from a Bible-based cult. After leaving the cult where he was a member for over twenty years, Doug earned his master's degree in counseling and is now a licensed professional counselor.

http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/06/cult-awareness-workshop-saturd.html

Dallas Church Plans Prayer for ACC

The Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, is organizing a prayer vigil to coincide with the May 1-13 meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Jamaica.

The foremost items on the agenda for the ACC meeting will be consideration of a proposed Anglican Covenant and reception of the final report of the Windsor Continuation Process. “Both of these documents are key to discerning a way forward for the Anglican Communion in light of recent stresses caused by differences over matters of human sexuality,” according to a recent media release by the Anglican Communion News Service.

In addition to having individuals pray at the parish during the times that the ACC will be in session, the parish is also encouraging individuals to volunteer to pray via the internet.

Organizers at Incarnation decided to create the prayer vigil after being challenged to do so by Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon of the Province of Kaduna in the Anglican Church of Nigeria.

“Let all Anglicans who believe in the power of prayers get to work,” Archbishop Fearon said. “My conviction is that our praying together is able to make [The Episcopal Church] and the Canadian [Church] part of our family discuss(ion) and (will help them) miraculously accept the proposed Covenant for the Communion. Nothing is beyond the Lord who owns his Church.”

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2009/4/30/dallas-church-plans-prayer-for-acc

Brite Divinity to add Episcopal Studies Program

Brite Divinity School at TCU has announced the establishment of an Episcopal Studies Program rooted in classical Anglican tradition.

The Episcopal Studies Program will begin on Aug. 24 with the opening of the fall 2009 semester. The Rev. Fred Barber, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, has been named part-time acting director of the new program, which will allow candidates for the Episcopal priesthood to complete the Master of Divinity in preparation for ordination without leaving North Texas. The program has the enthusiastic support of the Rt. Rev. Edwin F. (Ted) Gulick Jr., provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.
It will follow the model of the other denominational studies programs at Brite.

Brite is affiliated with Texas Christian University and related to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). President Dr. Newell Williams notes the school has long been committed to serving the whole church. In addition to enrolling students from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Brite offers specialized programs in Baptist Studies, Presbyterian Studies and United Methodist Studies. Each denominational studies program has a program director that helps students maintain connections to their denomination. Brite also offers courses addressing distinctive traditions and contemporary issues of African American, Hispanic and Asian American faith communities, provides courses in Jewish Studies and sponsors a Catholic lecture series.

http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/03/brite-divinity-to-add-episcopa.html

A Dallas Episcopal priest comments on the split in Fort Worth

From the Dallas Morning News

I wish that those who are so adamant to pull away from TEC and align with the Southern Cone would realize the damage they do to people who simply want a place to worship God without controversy or involving themselves in any fight. The actions of the previous councils of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth affect us all, especially as we try to prepare people for membership in our parishes. Lay people struggle with whether to believe in a church of bishops, if bishops lead only to schism. People reject church experiences where there is fighting over anything, and rightfully so.

What I cannot agree with is the pretense that there are two Episcopal dioceses of Fort Worth. Bishop Iker needs to come to terms with the fact that his argument is an emperor without clothes. The historical position of all our bishops for centuries is that there cannot be two different ecclesiastical authorities over one geographical area. Bishop Iker knows that if an Episcopal priest failed to show up for services or at any diocesan function he would be compelled to remove that priest. Likewise it is the duty of the Presiding Bishop to remove any bishop who is not participating in the life of the Episcopal Church. There are priests in Texas who claim to be Anglican but not part of the Episcopal Church (TEC). I guess I could pretend to be Roman Catholic but it would not make it so. At the very best these congregations are "faux Anglican." The Archbishop of Canterbury has never approved a separate Province inside the US. He cannot without violating all historical precedents and furthering schism. I do not doubt that Bishop Iker is a good man who has done wonderful things in his ministry. How sad, it is most likely that history will record him now solely as a schismatic bishop.

http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/02/a-dallas-episcopal-priest-comm.html

Good Stuff in TEC: Texas

Episcopal Church of Our Savior to hold community garden workday

This small church in Dallas' Pleasant Grove area has a community garden that produces tons (literally) of organic vegetables for local food banks. The church will have a garden workday on Saturday, and volunteers are needed.

Join us for a Workday of winter Garden Chores, a Pot Luck Lunch at Noon, and the 2009 Our Saviour/Gardeners In Community Development, Gardeners' and Volunteers' Meeting at 1pm. At the meeting we will go over 2009 contracts/fees, share 2008 garden photos and stories (bring yours!) and 2009 goals and projects. Don Lambert, Executive Director, GICD, will be there to discuss GICD projects, plans and expectations.

If you are interested in continuing your plot at Our Saviour Community Garden, being a regular volunteer at OS and/or other GICD projects, beginning or participating on a garden project team (ie composting cooks, mighty mulchers, weed whackers, sign makers, etc. ;) or volunteering and growing toward becoming a future plot owner, or interested in beginning a garden of your own.

http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/episcopal-church-of-our-savior.html

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I suggest the new 'Anglican Church in North America' isn't actually Anglican

An editorial from the Dallas Morning News about the so called "New Province".

My musing: At this point I put these folks in the same basket as the women who claim they're Catholic priests, Christians who say they are "Messianic Jews" and Mormons who say they are Christians.

(snip)

Which leads us to the Episcopalian/Anglican kafuffle. Anglican provinces are defined by the Anglican Communion of which they are a part. Until now, a province could no more declare itself to exist than I could declare myself to be a doctor. There are rules, standards, approvals. None of which has this new whatever-it-is gone through.

So what is it? Best I can see, it's a religious organization - a new American denomination - that seeks to be recognized as an Anglican province. News reports about how its leaders plan to seek that recognition are not specific. But until the Archbishop of Canterbury says it is, I can't see calling it "Anglican" without quotes.

All here-

http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/2008/12/the-episcopal-split-a-battle-o.html