NASHVILLE, TN: Former Episcopalians face more upheaval
NASHVILLE, TN: Former Episcopalians face more upheaval
Former Episcopal priest Thomas McKenzie and others are left in limbo amid a spat between Anglican Mission leaders and the overseas Anglican group that adopted them
By: Bob Smietana
The Tennessean
http://tinyurl.com/7hegcwa
January 28, 2012
For the second time in a decade, the Rev. Thomas McKenzie has found himself in an ugly church fight.
Back in 2004, it was over sexuality and salvation in the Episcopal Church.
Now it's over power and money, the spat between leaders of the Anglican Mission in the Americas - made up mostly of former Episcopalians like McKenzie - and the overseas Anglican group that adopted them.
"It's sinful, it's ugly, it's wrong," said McKenzie, pastor of Church of the Redeemer in Nashville and a former Episcopal priest. "And it doesn't bring honor to the name of Christ."
Over the past decade, thousands of Episcopalians have split from that denomination because they feel it lost its theological moorings. Some of its bishops have denied that Jesus is the only path to salvation, and the denomination allows gays and lesbians to be leaders.
They found allies in Anglican bishops from places like Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria and South America. Those bishops, like the leaders of the Episcopal Church, are part of the Anglican Communion but hold more traditional beliefs.
Some local former Episcopalians, like those at Church of the Redeemer, joined the Anglican Mission, which was run by the Church of Rwanda.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Former Episcopal priest Thomas McKenzie and others are left in limbo amid a spat between Anglican Mission leaders and the overseas Anglican group that adopted them
By: Bob Smietana
The Tennessean
http://tinyurl.com/7hegcwa
January 28, 2012
For the second time in a decade, the Rev. Thomas McKenzie has found himself in an ugly church fight.Back in 2004, it was over sexuality and salvation in the Episcopal Church.
Now it's over power and money, the spat between leaders of the Anglican Mission in the Americas - made up mostly of former Episcopalians like McKenzie - and the overseas Anglican group that adopted them.
"It's sinful, it's ugly, it's wrong," said McKenzie, pastor of Church of the Redeemer in Nashville and a former Episcopal priest. "And it doesn't bring honor to the name of Christ."
Over the past decade, thousands of Episcopalians have split from that denomination because they feel it lost its theological moorings. Some of its bishops have denied that Jesus is the only path to salvation, and the denomination allows gays and lesbians to be leaders.
They found allies in Anglican bishops from places like Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria and South America. Those bishops, like the leaders of the Episcopal Church, are part of the Anglican Communion but hold more traditional beliefs.
Some local former Episcopalians, like those at Church of the Redeemer, joined the Anglican Mission, which was run by the Church of Rwanda.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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