Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Episcopal Church and the New Morality

The Episcopal Church and the New Morality
How pansexuality has affected the whole Anglican Communion

News Analysis

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
June 22, 2013

Watching the Episcopal Church struggle with morality is a bit like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.

The truth is there isn't much left to argue over. The Episcopal Church, like the alcoholic, is sodomizing itself out of existence, slowly but surely, with closing parishes and merging dioceses. It has resisted calls for spiritual cure and the idea of intervention is not on anybody's radar screen. It may take another 20 years or so, but the trajectory is there and the decline inevitable. Shrinkage is everywhere. More and more parishes have part time retired non-stipendiary priests and more dioceses will merge. The average age of Episcopalians is in their mid-Sixties, their congregations under 70.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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