Derek Olsen offers some insightful remarks over at Haligweorc regarding the formation of a “Society for Eastern Rite Anglicans.” I particularly appreciated one of his remarks in the comments:
“One of our issues is clergy who use their position to inflict their own spiritual journeys (or meanderings) on their congregations. It goes back to the idea of the Book of Common Prayer as a contract between the clergy and the laity—in principle we’ve all agreed that this is what we’re going to use and that it will be our norm.”
Sharing–to an appropriate degree–what is going on in our spiritual lives with our congregations is simply part of being in community and, in particular, being a leader in the community. Pulling people along as you’re blown this way and that by all sorts of quirky and half-bakes spirituality? Not so much…
M mentioned to me that she’d seen something on Facebook about an Eastern-leaning Anglican group. The Eastern churches are a very interesting bunch. We—I—sometimes talk about the theology of the…
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