Anonymous
04/06/2018 07:28
Subject: Re:Conservative Episcopal Church in DC Area
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, I am confused about which Falls Church you attended. The Falls Church Anglican is the breakaway church affiliated with the Anglican church that is currently located in a building on Arlington Boulevard. Falls Church Episcopal is located in the historic church in the City of Falls Church (the Episcopal church won the lawsuit, and got this propety back a few years ago).
Does anyone even attend falls church episcopal even? It was such a vibrant church before the episcopal church took it over.
Not any more. Last I knew they had a congregation of only 80+. Maintenance on the buildings has not been kept up.
This is not accurate. The Episcopal Church makes public its membership and Sunday attendance data by church. Their website (https://www.episcopalchurch.org/posts/research/study-your-congregation-and-community) shows that the Falls Church Episcopal in 2016 (the most recent year available) had about 550 members and average Sunday attendance of about 280. This is an increase from 120/50 in 2007, the first year after their split from Falls Church Anglican.
I suspect this is the same person who's always posting negative comments about Falls Church Episcopal. I don't even go to church there, it just gets old.
Anonymous
04/05/2018 17:21
Subject: Re:Conservative Episcopal Church in DC Area
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, I am confused about which Falls Church you attended. The Falls Church Anglican is the breakaway church affiliated with the Anglican church that is currently located in a building on Arlington Boulevard. Falls Church Episcopal is located in the historic church in the City of Falls Church (the Episcopal church won the lawsuit, and got this propety back a few years ago).
Does anyone even attend falls church episcopal even? It was such a vibrant church before the episcopal church took it over.
Not any more. Last I knew they had a congregation of only 80+. Maintenance on the buildings has not been kept up.
Anonymous
04/05/2018 17:17
Subject: Conservative Episcopal Church in DC Area
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP here... I have a feeling that the OP is simply sick of the clergy using the pulpit as a political podium. We have the same issue at our Episcopalian church. It has become too political. I don't necessarily always disagree with the viewpoints being presented. However, I don't feel this is the proper place for the clergy to voice their opinions. They share their political beliefs on social media, in demonstrations, and in other places too.
OP here. Yes, this is exactly what I am trying to articulate!
Here's the deal. If you can't handle the social justice bent of the Episcopalian church, then maybe you need a new denomination.
You are calling things political and the clergy you disagree with would likely say this is not politics, this is about our sense of ethics, personal responsibility and living out the vows we made to God. If that makes you uncomfortable, then you do not share the same doctrinal background as your church. The clergy are trying to shepherd their flock toward what they believe is right morally, spiritually and doctrinally. If you are bristling at that, then you are in the wrong church.
Sitting in the church pew is not meant to be a comfortable solace from the real world where you get to listen to hymns and pretend its 1950 and all is well in the world for white people. It is ugly and hard out there and filled with injustices and your clergy are rightly railing against it. If you want sunshine and roses all the time and a high mass, become Catholic and go to a Latin service where you won't even know what's being said. Otherwise go to a nondenominational evangelical service and get used to the praise dancing and hand waving.
Wow. You sure are full of yourself. And judgemental to boot.
As for social justice, if you knew anything about it, you wouldn't make disparaging comments about the Catholic Church.
I'm the poster you are calling full of myself and judgemental. The OP is the one who says he/she wants a church service that is absent anything she finds unsettling, politcal, or that she/he disagrees with. The OP is the one who is judgemental.
I am not disparaging the Catholic Church. I am Episcopalian and I love my church and also have deep respect for the Catholic Church (while recognizing its issues of course). I was telling the OP to pick a Catholic Church with a LATIN mass where he/she would not understand messages that he/she considers politicized.