Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

Never in any "official" communications (i.e., sermons, etc.). Communicants will often note where a given church falls on that continuum, but I've never seen, say, a diocesan website in which one can filter by "high" vs. "low" church. To my admittedly inexpert eyes, that's sort of an organic thing ... churches evolve in one direction or another.

My diocese:

 

I know I’m a Protestant and if you drill down I’ll tell you I am one. But that (and my denomination) are a subset of my Christianity. That’s how I’ve identified since being saved. Not everything is a nefarious plot to addle pollsters.

 

Well, there went that entry on @heyabbott's Christmas card list.

 

I'm cradle Episcopalian. I came up through being an acolyte then the crucifer, yadda yadda. The only way I remember hearing Protestant used was in the broader sense of "we're a Protestant church". We're basically Anglican, or Anglican adjacent anyway, but since the American Episcopal church became "too liberal" and the very conservative parishes started to join the African branch of the Anglican church, the openly anti-gay side, I hear that less. I don't recall hearing "Anglo-Catholic" much either, although I can't say that I've delved very deeply into church matters as an adult.

High church/Low church was more of a shorthand to get a handle on the ritual the church used, colloquially "bells and smells". There are definitely some some very High Church Episcopal churches here, the sort where if you are not attending in a nice suit you feel uncomfortable.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I grew up with the 1928 liturgy and I miss the beauty of the language. I don't have anything against the more current prayer book, I just miss "It is meet and right so to do. It is very meet, right and our bounden duty to..."

 

Lebanon Schools responds after approving facility use for 'After-School Satan Club'

God bless ‘em.

 

From The article:

Three conservative Supreme Court Justices, Clarence Thomas, William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, joined in the majority opinion back in 2001 to set the ground rules for such cases, ensuring the right to allow religious groups to rent space in public schools.

In recent years, wherever the Good News Club, an evangelistic Christian nonprofit, situates The Satanic Temple After School Satan Club is certain to try to follow.

Despite the name, which many families find repugnant, the group's mission statement said it does not try to convert children to Satanism.

In fact, the club doesn't regard Satan as real, merely using the image as a representation of iconoclast thinking and rebellion.

The group states its intent is to promote free inquiry, rationalism, and science.

 

Typical. Folks want their way, but when someone else of a different mindset wants equal time, they raise the dickens.
Not where I work, but at another school, some gay kids want to form a school club. The school has to let them if a teacher wants to be club sponsor. I've heard that word has been put about that nobody better agree to do it.

 

‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, has just sent documents to the Vatican requesting that the left-wing writer and activist Dorothy Day be declared a saint. I hope that does not happen. The late Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan said that canonizing Dorothy Day would be a demotion. She herself said simply it would trivialize her. She is larger than the figures who wind their way through the miniaturizing process of canonization.

 

Easier to market.

 

You're doin' fine Oklahoma, etc.



Darwin?