Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy on Communion without Baptism
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy on Communion without Baptism
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 25, 2011
It is unofficial of course. No one is supposed to know it is going on and it is certainly not approved by the canons of The Episcopal Church - but it is happening around the country. Communion is being offered to people who are not baptized. It is known as Communion Without Baptism (CWOB).
The most blatant case was at a House of Bishops meeting in 2001 presided over by then Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold. In Arrowhead in March of that year, bishops were forced to sit through lectures by a Jewish faculty member from Griswold's alma mater in Massachusetts on how to lead the Christian church. The man was truly offensive, according to a bishop who wrote to VOL at that time. Later, following the lecture, then Bishop of Vermont, Adelia MacLeod, dragged the speaker to the altar rail for communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 25, 2011
It is unofficial of course. No one is supposed to know it is going on and it is certainly not approved by the canons of The Episcopal Church - but it is happening around the country. Communion is being offered to people who are not baptized. It is known as Communion Without Baptism (CWOB).The most blatant case was at a House of Bishops meeting in 2001 presided over by then Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold. In Arrowhead in March of that year, bishops were forced to sit through lectures by a Jewish faculty member from Griswold's alma mater in Massachusetts on how to lead the Christian church. The man was truly offensive, according to a bishop who wrote to VOL at that time. Later, following the lecture, then Bishop of Vermont, Adelia MacLeod, dragged the speaker to the altar rail for communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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