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    Do you have any particular devotions?

    At the beginning of mealtimes we all sit down at the table together and follow the Daily Devotions for Families and Individuals or other portion of the Daily Office from the '79 BCP and the Lectionary readings for the day, too. We also tend to observe all of the Feasts and Fasts as a family...
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    Does this make any sense?

    Don't fret. I doubt that you will find much about coat hangers in the Bible. :-) At 13 you have your whole life ahead of you, which means you have many wonderful things in your future. Perhaps music and performance is going to be one of them. However, you said "keep singing and performing."...
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    Does The Anglican Communion Matter?

    If the organization does not have "black sheep" of some variety on the individual, congregational, diocesan, and provincial levels something is very, very suspicious. :-) It would make me worry that somehow they weren't human.
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    Does The Anglican Communion Matter?

    Very well put. This is my position as well.
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    Does The Anglican Communion Matter?

    I think we're actually closer to the same page than we realize. There is certainly more room for improvement in everything, the Communion especially.
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    Does The Anglican Communion Matter?

    Because schism is not edifying and is unsustainable. The Anglican Communion was founded to bring all of the fragmented denominations from the Church of England back together under the banner of our shared history (plus a bunch of housekeeping conveniences). I prefer a more unified church over...
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    Does The Anglican Communion Matter?

    A body certainly could break off and remain Apostolic in the strictest sense, provided they continue the succession of Bishops. That's how the Anglican Communion is Apostolic in the first place when it broke from Rome. The Episcopal Church had to do the same thing when it broke from the Church...
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    Anglo-Catholic?

    Then call me a True Anglo-Catholic™ and be done with it! ;)
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    Anglo-Catholic?

    As someone who identifies as Anglo-Catholic myself, I find my focus of such identification is more upon high-church Liturgy and traditions ('79 BCP Rite One Eucharist, "folksy" traditions, Saint feasts and fasts and the likes, etc.). Often times I'll mention such things like we're observing St...
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    Bishop Lawrence Out of the TEC

    That confirms a number of things that I thought were the case about this matter.
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    Bishop Lawrence Out of the TEC

    And you were concerned about value judgements? :)
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    "Stuck" in Place in my Faith Development

    If you look at it that way, it's not a matter of being "pulled back" per se, it's a matter of you actively pursuing that experience because it is a part of who you are. It comes to mind often, I take it, and you feel 'whole' when you're at services (regardless of how hard it may be to attend...
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    The Shroud of Turin

    I do find the Shroud quite interesting, yet I am unconvinced at this point of its authenticity from the carbon dating tests and the image itself. As a point of order, these individuals speculate that it was a sample from the repaired portion, but there is (from what I understand) no evidence...
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    Name one thing you "Love" and one thing you "Dislike" about the Anglican Church!

    I like that we're not so much a melting pot, but more like a salad with many things tossed in together, and we all, more or less, share the same dressing (er... not sure how much further I want to push this metaphor...). However, as has been mentioned, in recent times this has become a point...
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    A Sad Day for Many

    I feel for your distress Episcoboi. However, I must say with confidence, knowing many Puerto Ricans and your indomitable spirit, I doubt that your culture is going to "disappear" any time soon. :-) From where I see it, 61% voted for it on the ballot, but as I remember 52% of Puerto Ricans...
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    Bishop Lawrence Out of the TEC

    What do you mean "the record"? Are his sermons, actions, public documents, legal decisions, the diocesan website and all of the resolutions listed there, and other such things *not* part of "the record"? If so, I am still at a loss for words as the world is now upside-down and the record isn't...
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    Bishop Lawrence Out of the TEC

    I have to ask again: Are we reading the same documents? Are we hearing the same words? Given your responses, I'm at a complete loss. It prompts me to rub my eyes and re-read everything posted so far to make sure I haven't imagined anything, and in the end I'm in the same state. Perhaps there...
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    Bishop Lawrence Out of the TEC

    IMHO, that's pretty cut and dry. Means. Motive. Opportunity. (Although not nearly as exciting as a courtroom drama.) :-)
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    My opinions on the division in the Christian faith as we know it today.

    I suppose it's a matter of how different people see themselves vis à vis the greater body of Christianity. Some sects see themselves as The Only Way™, where others see themselves as Christian within a particular tradition or way of doing things. For example, I am Christian, but I am also...