Thank you thank you thank you, from a life-long Episcopalian and lay preacher in an inner city church (in Maine) where the abject and forgotten of our society are on our doorsteps and sometimes with us on Sunday mornings. We live in the ruins of empire (and mills that went elsewhere). What's kept me in the Episcopal church is the ministry of this tiny congregation, and a beloved church family that many Sundays sits around after church pushing back at the scriptures....
Excellent piece, Andy, and sobering. Your ideas on the intersection of church and “empire” in various times are important.
I so appreciate your support.
Thank you thank you thank you, from a life-long Episcopalian and lay preacher in an inner city church (in Maine) where the abject and forgotten of our society are on our doorsteps and sometimes with us on Sunday mornings. We live in the ruins of empire (and mills that went elsewhere). What's kept me in the Episcopal church is the ministry of this tiny congregation, and a beloved church family that many Sundays sits around after church pushing back at the scriptures....
Thank YOU for sharing your thoughts. There are many who probably feel the same. Take heart, every story of good news begins in darkness.
Thank you for expressing what I felt as I saw such a difference in Christ’s teachings and the philosophy and actions of the institutionalized church.
I am a retired United Methodist elder who attends a wonderful Episcopal church, Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama.