Liturgical worship is what I miss most since leaving TEC (not finding a fit for my family in ACNA) and attending a UMC church. I’m not sure what to do. I worship (not as regularly as I should) on my own using Morning and Evening Prayer (sometimes Compline) from the 1662 and 1928 BCPs, but I long to worship in person. I want to chant Psalms with the choir of believers and enjoy quiet contemplative worship. That doesn’t appear to be on offering in the UMC (I kinda knew it going in.., that is part of the reason that I left after my Wesley Foundation small group broke up after graduate school).

Churches need to be preparing people to resist transhumanism It isn’t about people pretending to be another gender, non-gender, or species; it is about what creation is meant to be and what people are meant to be.

We are called to be part of Christ redeeming of the Earth. When the church fails to bring the light (looking at you #TEC), it is failing in its purpose. Point others toward light and life and not toward darkness and death. Heaven is what is more real than what sin has made the Earth. Christ is coming to judge the Earth and the peoples with His Truth, and Christ Truth transforms and makes all things new.

This was too funny not to share. This is how I felt at some points before I had enough and left TEC. and yes, the water women was also there

Ding dong! The witch is dead. Praise God and pass the ammunition.

Now the work needs to begin twofold:

1) overturning elective abortion policies in all of the states and

2) a national mourning, confession of sin, and reconciliation for ever condoning this murder.

The fight for unborn life isn’t over. There was an important win for federalism, but this moves the fight to the individual states.

I agree. We now need a national political party that would agree with this platform.

The BCP expounds upon the gospel doctrine of assurance. The eucharist is an assurance of God’s grace. The doctrine addresses that good works are a sign to assure us of God’s grace even though we sinners can never do enough works to earn salvation by our own merit.

When the church speaks words, things actually happen.

Interesting post on Anglicanism today. I’m attending a Methodist (UMC) parish at the moment, but it is way to low church for my taste. It offers traditionalish hymns, has fun youth choirs and groups for my kids, and has W.O. (Important for some members of my family). Overall, my ideal place of worship would be a ‘yellow’ to ‘yellow-orange’ parish that recognized W.O. Barring that, I’m stuck where I’m currently attending. I’m planning to join an Adult Sunday School class in the fall… maybe I will feel more belonging (if not a churchmanship home) once I make more friends/acquaintances.

This is the number one reason why I’ve become a refugee from the Episcopal Church. The assertion by parishioners (and the bishop) that all people that voted for President Trump were racists was the last straw for me. I’d felt alienated from the parish for years before finally leaving.