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Liturgical worship is what I miss most since leaving TEC (not finding a fit for my family in ACNA) and attending a UMC church. I’m not sure what to do. I worship (not as regularly as I should) on my own using Morning and Evening Prayer (sometimes Compline) from the 1662 and 1928 BCPs, but I long to worship in person. I want to chant Psalms with the choir of believers and enjoy quiet contemplative worship. That doesn’t appear to be on offering in the UMC (I kinda knew it going in.., that is part of the reason that I left after my Wesley Foundation small group broke up after graduate school).

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Churches need to be preparing people to resist transhumanism It isn’t about people pretending to be another gender, non-gender, or species; it is about what creation is meant to be and what people are meant to be.

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We are called to be part of Christ redeeming of the Earth. When the church fails to bring the light (looking at you #TEC), it is failing in its purpose. Point others toward light and life and not toward darkness and death. Heaven is what is more real than what sin has made the Earth. Christ is coming to judge the Earth and the peoples with His Truth, and Christ Truth transforms and makes all things new.

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This was too funny not to share. This is how I felt at some points before I had enough and left TEC. and yes, the water women was also there

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Ding dong! The witch is dead. Praise God and pass the ammunition. Now the work needs to begin twofold:

1) overturning elective abortion policies in all of the states and

2) a national mourning, confession of sin, and reconciliation for ever condoning this murder.

The fight for unborn life isn’t over. There was an important win for federalism, but this moves the fight to the individual states.

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I agree. We now need a national political party that would agree with this platform.

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The BCP expounds upon the gospel doctrine of assurance. The eucharist is an assurance of God’s grace. The doctrine addresses that good works are a sign to assure us of God’s grace even though we sinners can never do enough works to earn salvation by our own merit.

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When the church speaks words, things actually happen.

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Interesting post on Anglicanism today. I’m attending a Methodist (UMC) parish at the moment, but it is way to low church for my taste. It offers traditionalish hymns, has fun youth choirs and groups for my kids, and has W.O. (Important for some members of my family). Overall, my ideal place of worship would be a ‘yellow’ to ‘yellow-orange’ parish that recognized W.O. Barring that, I’m stuck where I’m currently attending. I’m planning to join an Adult Sunday School class in the fall… maybe I will feel more belonging (if not a churchmanship home) once I make more friends/acquaintances.

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This is the number one reason why I’ve become a refugee from the Episcopal Church. The assertion by parishioners (and the bishop) that all people that voted for President Trump were racists was the last straw for me. I’d felt alienated from the parish for years before finally leaving.

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Traditional Christians must answer postmodernism with truth and love. When confronted with their power theories remind them that not everything is about power, and Christians acknowledge that communication with the divine has occurred… that real truth exists.

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An interesting discussion of the Abraham-Isaac story from Genesis 22. Did Abraham miss the point (partially miss the point)? Was the test really not about Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac but about Abraham’s knowledge of God and his relationship with his son? Thoughts?

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“Truth doesn’t care, reality doesn’t care about your ideology. Truth is unconcerned by whatever you think someone else’s interests are. It persists,” said Distance.

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I (mostly) agree. Things were definitely better legally (and culturally) in the 70s (except disco… that sucked).

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Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg is so caught up in a pay-to-play scandal. These are the same things that would get my employer banned from Federal contracts. Honk Honk!

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Though certainly this is a caricature, I undoubtedly have suffered from this point of view (or similar).

Here’s an update on the church discernment journey. As you may recall, my family left the Episcopal Church last year when they stopped having services (since resumed) and the bishop and many parishioners attacked fellow parishioners with unfounded and politically motivated accusations of white supremacy. In January 2021, we began attending an Anglican Church in North America parish nearby. Though we liked the people of the parish, there were theological and practical reasons that we discerned that we could not join them as members: 1) they did not have a youth program that could engage my daughter, and 2) we could not join a church that opposed full ministry participation for women.

We have begun attending a large United Methodist Church that fulfilled many of the family’s needs. The church has great youth programs for my children, including multiple children/youth choirs. The sermons are at least as good as previously attended churches, but they are long. The hymns are generally good and otherwise acceptable. The biggest drawbacks are the general lack of liturgy, infrequent Eucharist (with grape juice), a lack of contemplative opportunities, modern inclusive language, lack of service music (other than the Gloria Patri), and the uncertainty about the split in the UMC (We’re in the suburbs of Atlanta, so it could go either way).

I think we are staying here, but any ideas about a liturgical church with women in ministry but not run by the woke and recognizing that Christian marriage is only between one man and one woman? I’m basically an old high church Anglican (not Anglocatholic).

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Interesting podcast from Symbolic World discussing that anti-Christ system of weaponized compassion. The prime biblical example given was Judas, Mary, and the perfume with which she anointed Jesus’ feet. The current example given of weaponized compassion are COVID restrictions. The system uses things that Christians should desire, compassion, to coerce behavior that gives the system power.