Wednesday, February 01, 2012


Tunics, cloaks, and church buildings - Robert S. Munday

Tunics, cloaks, and church buildings

The V. Rev. Robert Munday
http://toalltheworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/tunics-cloaks-and-church-buildings.html
Jan. 28, 2012

"And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well" (Matthew 5:40, ESV).

Last week I happened to be in Savannah, Georgia; and, as I try to do whenever I am in town on a Sunday evening, I attended the beautiful sung Compline at historic Christ Church. Christ Church is the oldest Anglican church in Georgia-older than the State of Georgia, older than the Diocese of Georgia, and older than the Episcopal Church. It is the only church where both John Wesley and George Whitefield served as rectors. Christ Church, whose vestry voted unanimously to separate from the Episcopal Church in 2007 (a vote that was sustained by 87% of the membership) recently had its building taken away by the courts and given to the Episcopal diocese.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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