| The Fate Of The Episcopal Church In The Anglican Communion?

The Fate Of The Episcopal Church In The Anglican Communion?

topazelf asked the question:


Tensions continue to rise between the Episcopal Church, USA (ECUSA) and the worldwide Anglican Communion. Some fear that the ECUSA, which already enjoys great independance and “autonomy” may separate from the wider Communion, whether by expulsion or by leaving.

Additionally, many conservative Episcopalians are individually leaving the ECUSA and joining more traditional denominations (Catholic, Orthodox).

Is it possible for the Communion to resolve its conflicts and bring everyone back together into their Anglican family?

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7 Responses to “The Fate Of The Episcopal Church In The Anglican Communion?”

  1. jstaceyinspector on January 22nd, 2009 7:14 am

    prayer for all is best!

  2. Jay on January 25th, 2009 7:33 am

    It is not possible, so long as the one believes in “traditional values” and the other insists on having an openly homosexual, and sexually active, Bishop.

  3. jimi4950 on January 25th, 2009 2:06 pm

    It is doomed to fail,some have adopted things that God hates, the church has turned it’s back on God and has condoned sin…

  4. mysticalguy188 on January 26th, 2009 9:56 pm

    You mean their Catholic family? If your ancestors were Christian then they were Catholic. Anglicans formed to get away from the Church of England but they still follow many Catholic doctrines. I think that they should join back into the church formed by Christ not man.

  5. bacha2_33461 on January 28th, 2009 1:57 pm

    It just goes to show that you can’t “water down” Christianity and expect true believers
    to go with it.
    There are certain moral concepts which
    are not flexible, otherwise the entire system
    is relative. This is such an instance.

  6. Darren S on January 31st, 2009 9:21 pm

    The Anglican Church has expressed a continual desire for unity and has bent over backward to allow ECUSA to back down from their heretical views. Anglican Churches are now sprouting up in the USA and are rapidly growing from an influx of Episcopalians who wish to return to the orthodox faith.
    The issues regarding homosexuality and gay clergy will not be resolved until the Episcopal communion disavows their current stance and return to the Apostolic and Biblical doctrine of the Faith.
    Homosexuality is a lifestyle that is in direct conflict with scripture and the teachings of the church fathers. There is not any Biblical premise for allowing gay clergy and to promote any other view is false doctrine.
    As Christians, we do not hate or dislike homosexuals. We just believe that their lifestyle is a sin as it is described in the Bible and as such, is irreconcileable to scripture.

  7. Bob on February 2nd, 2009 8:29 pm

    Henry VIII only wanted to marry another woman when he separated himself from the Pope in the 1480’s.

    520+ years later, the gay-supporting ECUSA wants to do the same thing. Let them separate and see where they wind up. As for the Anglican communion, it would be nice to see them vanish completely for allowing apostasy with the ECUSA. Rowan Williams supports gay marriage; he just doesn’t have the public face to advocate this view in a country whose monarch gave him his existence in the first place.