What does it mean to be an Episcopalian anyway?
We are onto important questions in the midst of our divisions. Our differences nowadays take on global dimensions. On other matters, churches all around the world seem to have similar prospects and struggles in our consumerist age. The diversity of ways that we worship, rendered yet wider in our age of online resources, seems to have taken the “common” out of “common prayer.” Cynical neighbors tell us it all goes back to the lusts of a king long ago and far away. In many parts of the USA, Episcopalians have in large measure defined themselves as not someone-else: not Catholics, not Baptists, etc. The pat answers of an earlier generation seem to satisfy less.
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