{"id":5642,"date":"2006-01-09T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/alien-is-as-alien-does.html"},"modified":"2006-01-09T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T13:54:28","slug":"alien-is-as-alien-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/alien-is-as-alien-does.html","title":{"rendered":"Alien is as Alien Does"},"content":{"rendered":"

The turmoil in the Anglican Communion and the ECUSA interest us a great deal because it’s interesting in and of itself, but also because of what it tells us about the road of "God is doing a new thing." Today Christopher Johnson reports that eight – count them eight – more parishes in Northeast Florida might be cutting ties with ECUSA, adding to the six that did so in 2005.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fourteen in one diocese. While the secular media dithers about how the Roman Catholic Church’s stances on various issues (mostly sexual) is so "alienating"…we have fourteen<\/em> parishes in a single diocese leaving the liberal<\/em> ECUSA fold for a more conservative<\/em> alignment with the Worlwide Anglican Communion…wow. Talk about alienating.<\/p>\n

(Mary Jane, I know you’ve helped out musically at St. Michael’s in Gainesville, by which I used to drive several times a day…any perspective? And does anyone know if All Saints’ in Lakeland, while not being in "northeast" Florida – is one of the parishes in question?)<\/p>\n

And from the comments on MCJ, a link to a post about a church in Livonia, MI that made the move this past Sunday)<\/a><\/p>\n

For more, and interesting discussion, see TitusOneNine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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