SC Episcopal Schism Update
A Lowcountry circuit court judge has rejected efforts by the national Episcopalian Church (TEC) and You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
A Lowcountry circuit court judge has rejected efforts by the national Episcopalian Church (TEC) and You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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First Duck Dynasty, now maybe the church can stand w/ God and The Bible…Wow!!!!FITS, and the pop culture hate-squads are taking an @$$-kickin’….
Let’s not stop ’til we repeal Obamacare and get Obama out of our White House…and back in Chicago where thugs belong…
Take your hate someplace else, I don’t need fans like you.
God HATES sin…and that’s why people like you HATE Him…
Because you are not defined by the God in you…but you define yourselves by your sin…
I don’t need fans like you.
Excellent article Fits. Based on my rather rudimentary understanding of the case, the National Episcopal Church is claiming ownership to property that was in local church hands long before the National Episcopal Church even existed. It’s always unfortunate to see churches fighting amongst themselves. I agree wholeheartedly that individual congregations should be able to associate or disassociate with national denominations as they wish.
Jackie,
You are correct for the most part. Their was a ruling in VA on the matter and if a local church had to get the national church to guarantee a loan for whatever reason, the national church owned the property. If the national church never had to help with any loan, and the local church could get a loan on their own, the local church owned the property. My understanding of the SOuth Carolina lawsuit is the local churches are saying it is their property no matter what. Since the Feds have kicked it to the state, I don’t think the appeals process will take long. Also, the presiding Bishop is addicting to money and that is why she is suing. She and the National Church needs as much money as possible to continue to do the things “they believe is right” even though the Bible disagrees with them 100%. Good luck to Bishop Lawrence. I am hoping Christ Church in the Greenville pulls out as well, but I don’t see it happening for another 5 to 10 years. Christ Church is one of the 10 largest Episcopal churches in the US just as an FYI.
It’s probably just a matter of time. Generally the more “free thinking” congregations are small and/or dying. Look at PCUSA as an example.
who cares how big it is. Christ is run by nouveau riche in Greenville who are members of the Republican party. Old money does not go there; it has all died out. It is suffering financially because no one is pledging to give to a church that sponsors homophobia. The progressives have pulled out. Anglican churches are forming in Greenville that forbid women priests and gay people. The EC is in the middle of a social schism and I for one are with the progressives. The message of Christ is progressive not retrogressive.
You think Will Folks wants to socially climb and be an Episcopalian? He won’ be the first Baptist to do so.
Objection. Incoherent response.
What’s the difference between Anglican-Episcopalian and a Congregationalist since they both now have the same corporate structure and basic theology of individual conscience? Seems Christians are in the middle of a great M&A into 3 entities: Catholic, Catholic-lite and Other and just like any other merger its the lawyers who’ll sort it out and the shareholders will be shafted.
Invest in your soul, not Church property.
As one of my friends in the Navy would say in his country accent… “It’s OK for a man to suck another man’s penis… as long as you love him.”
that smegma taste nasty, bubba
They ALL need to leave the church,and find God.
“As we have stated from the beginning of this process, we believe
individual congregations should be allowed to worship as they see fit”. Which is exactly how Baptist churches operate.
Those backwards Baptists – who’d a thunk it!
And they don’t believe in evolution. Guess that’s how the teabaggers still exist.
Okay bitch, show me jihad in the Episcopal church. You should be castrated for use of this in a discussion of a Christian religion.
The difference between the National Church (TEC) and the Original Diocese is that the Lowcountry is still trying to serve God, while the National Church thinks it IS God. Here’s a news tip: There are SEVERAL large, very well-off parishes in the Upper Diocese which are about to walk away from the Upper Church of Waldo and join the Lowcountry Diocese. That’s all I can say right now, except to say that 2014 is going to be a VERY interesting year for the various parts of the Episcopal Church.
“The difference between the National Church (TEC) and the Original Diocese is that the Lowcountry is still trying to serve God, while the National Church thinks it IS God”
Total nonsense.
Isn’t this about joining up with an African bishop heading up the Charleston diocese (The Diocese of South Carolina) ? Good Lawd, I cannot imagine those blue blooded Charlestonians at St. Michaels and St Phillips paying homage to a black bishop from the continent where their former slaves came from ! Oh Lawd!
The lowcountry Churches have all but lost their minds and their Christianity. Thank Heaven for St Stephen and Grace Churches. The others have totally lost their focus. I’m glad the upper diocese had the foresight to not go that route.