#Anglican Communion

[midwesternartlovertraveler]

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Casper, Wyoming https://midwesternartlovertraveler.tumblr.com/

[mrpagesfrontispiece]

People will literally call you a Protestant when you don't follow Sola Scriptura or Sola Fide just because you aren't Catholic or Orthodox

[keendaanmaa]

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[renlyslittlerose]

Me trying desperately to remember all I learned about Catholicism in a class I took on the Reformation over a decade ago so I can write some filthy priest obikin smut for @veloursdor

[merthwyn]

The more I distance myself from (mainly) low Protestantism/Evangelicals and the more deep I get into Traditional denominations, the more I see myself longing for Holy Communion daily. Even now that I struggle with faith. And by longing I don't mean anything related to addiction or obsession. I see it as part of my whole being. In the same way I see (or used to see at least) prayer and thanksgiving, if not more.

[hymnsofheresy]

ime, orthodoxy is just as anti-choice and anti-gay as catholicism. have you tried anglo-catholicism?

yes, i have. let me just say i have just as many issues with joining the anglican communion as i do joining the catholic and orthodox communions. they just happen to be different concerns.

[popsicle-stick]

controversial dracula post: I don't think that catholicism is inherently more effective against vampires than other sects of christianity - it's just that they have more religious imagery to scare off vampires than, say, a baptist. what's a baptist gonna do? dunk 'em in the big baptism bath à la the lost boys??

[bread-and-whine-faggot]

The funny result of converting into the Episcopalian Church is that I find myself re-litigating the Reformation with my mom as a consequence of her loyalty to my anabaptist ancestors. She's not even a Christian but she is a Protestant.

[conningconvert]

I finally went to my first church service, but I didn’t think that’s what I was walking into, so I ended up being very overwhelmed and confused. Afterwards the Reverend introduced himself to me and I actually ended up crying in front of him, which was just mortifying, but he was very kind. I do think I’ll go back. When I actually know what’s going on I’ll be able to enjoy it. It’s a beautiful little church!

[aelloposchrysopterus]

The ho-ho-ho-ly eucharist

Cookies represent the body of Santa while the milk represents the blood of Santa

[theragamuffininitiative]

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[saynaija]

Anglican Bishop Seeks Collaboration With EFCC

Anglican Bishop Seeks Collaboration With EFCC The Bishop of Anglican Communion Diocese of Makurdi, Rt. Rev. Dr. N. N. Inyom today, September 5, declared the church’s support for the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in ridding the country of economic and financial crimes, including corruption. The cleric who led a delegation on a courtesy visit to the Makurdi Zonal…

[rhapsodomancer]

As I am acquainting myself with the Episcopalian church, I'm realizing that this is where all of the gay ex-Catholics ended up after the requisite period of shame-induced atheism or agnosticism, like. I guess I knew it but I didn't like, realize it

[ephemeral-winter]

preparing for an academic class on protestant bible usage and has anybody else noticed that after a certain point in the history of the church words stop having meaning to these people

[anarchobaptist]

[merthwyn]

Evangelicals are weird. They despise ascetic life because we're called to "be in the world but not of this world" but when they meet someone who struggles with loneliness and rejection they rebuke him for "wanting to be of this world" and tell him that "Jesus is all they need". They also despise traditionalists for their tradition calling it "worldly" and the same time you can't tell if their church building is actually a church or a cinema and and if their music is actually Christian or some Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift song.

When I was a "hardcore Evangelical" I had the same behaviour towards ascetic life that I described above. As for communion, it was just something I "liked doing". The Liturgy itself was dull, boring and of minor importance. Now, the more I go back to my roots (a.k.a. traditional denominations like Orthodoxy, Catholicism and High Anglicanism) I can see that ascetic life, communion and Liturgy are crucial to my life. One of my goals is to dive more into the life of the hermites. I'm sure this will be crucial to my faith, especially now that I struggle with it. During the Liturgy I feel at home. As for communion, it is now that I struggle with the image of God that I wish I could receive it every single day. As I am still affected by Evangelical beliefs, I asked my priest about whether I should stop receiving it because of my faith issues and I was scared of what the answer will be. Luckily, he said that there's no reason for me to do that. It's not that I'm an atheist or I mock God. I just struggle. I'm sick. And sick people are not banned from recieving communion. I was really relieved..

I feel like the prodigal son who left home to live his life. Evangelicalism for me was this "life" I wanted to live. Now I'm on the way back home, as I saw that this "life" emptied myself.

What's one aspect of Apostolic Christianity (Orthodoxy and Catholicism) you could never live without and why?

The Eucharist for sure. The entire Liturgy revolves around consuming the Flesh and Blood of our Lord.