Naughty, naughty, naughty Episcopalians....Now you've gone and done it!
Guardian Story
I don't get this. Really.
The conservative Anglican's aren't happy with those crazy North American liberals so they're going to create their own Church and going back to an earlier, more conservative version of the Book of Common Prayer...
wait for it....
below the fold...
...based on the 1662 version. That's not a typo. 1662. I suppose it's progress that they didn't want to go back to Henry VIII's version.
I don't get it.
I think I know this....
Faith is a reality to be experienced, not a set of rules to be followed. Jesus said, "Come and see," not, "Do what I tell you, or else." Elevating two-thousand-year-old texts over all human experience of God in our lives was exactly the kind of screwed-up orthodoxy Jesus' ministry was out to subvert.
There is no such thing as a second class Child of God. Our understanding of what that means may change over time, but the truth itself does not. We were created (see sidebar) with reason, intelligence, creativity, and curiousity. How we understand things - even how we understand what God wants of us, can and should change over time as we learn and grow as people and as a community.
So I really don't it.
(Sidebar: Evolution and astrophysics, along with all science are science, explaining the how when and where of the universe as best we know. But not "why". Ultimately, I believe the answer to "Why?" lies with God - you don't have to agree, but let's not get into it now, okay?)