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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is S/O, --As immigrant that's not familiar with all these different types of churches and terms, could someone explain to me what it means to be high church?  How is the service different?

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A high church is one that has a lot of formality and ritual in the service.  Incense, parts of the service that are sung or chanted rather than spoken, traditional music and instrumentation, and genuflecting to the altar, are all examples of things that signal "high church".   In addition, the high church sections of the Anglican communion often have some theological similarities with Catholicism, leaning more towards doctrines like transubstantiation, recognizing sacraments beyond Eucharist and Baptism, and showing reverence for saints.

A lot of people think that because the high church practices are very old, and very traditional, that the people who follow them must be old fashioned or traditional in political or social ways.  They are often surprised to find that many people who choose high church parishes are very socially liberal on issues such as gay marriage.  [/quote]

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