Lux Dei Christian Rants (Archive)

Friday, November 21, 2003

Dayton, Ohio Episcopalians Become Anglican

http://philippians-1-20.us/fairborn.htm

Andy Figueroa, leader of the Southern Ohio American Anglican Council, and over 36 others have left St. Christopher's Fairborn, OH for a less heretical environment (This is a 32% loss of regular attendees). Inside sources tell me that the reason many left is that the rector of St. Christopher's essentially took a business-as-usual approach, even cutting off discussion at a popular Sunday School discussion forum. While pretending nothing has happened might work for a little while, once the average Episcopalian gets mobilized, this approach will seem condescending, since it does not recognize the valid feelings that many people have over this. The Southern Ohio Diocese already prevented discussion about GC2003 at their Diocesan convention. The "let's pretend nothing happened and get along" approach will be less and less effective as the weeks go by.