@KirstieMAllsopp You are fighting a good fight here. Acknowledging the actual death of a person is not a statement about what happens to them after that. It is the end of their time on earth with us, and having others acknowledge that is not cruel.
@AnglicanCouncil Bishop Edgar did not say the report would be made public. He said it would be issued to the standing committees of the province, and clergy could then request it from the committees. As poor as the sound was during the livestream, that came through loud and clear.
@BethMooreLPM Happy Trinity Sunday! โFor there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.โ Amen!
@mrdavidrowe@Phoebe_Tweets It was enormously popular in the various renewal ministries of the Episcopal church in the 1980s-1990s. Itโs hard to believe it isnโt familiar now.
@mrdavidrowe I love how red represents the tongues of fire, and most of us see relatively little liturgical red throughout the year on Sundays. I donโt see white representing the excitement and supernatural manifestations of the Spirit like red does. Itโs a traditional visual aid.
I remember rehearsing for this bit on the sidewalk outside of the Tonight Show with @billyjoel and his band. I asked him, โShould we just do The Lion Sleeps Tonight?โ There were two other songs. He said, โWell letโs just try it now with my band.โ And that turned into three doo-wop songs on an NYC street corner. And THAT turned into this bit. Happy birthday to the one and only.
@jagges I miss knowing I was part of a church that loved this kind of worship and treasured its sense of glory and tradition. So few childrenโs choirs, adult choirs, and love of Anglican hymns โ I pray our children who have been raised without it are able to find it in their adulthood.
@AngAesthetics The Episcopal church still had bishops who did not ordain women to the priesthood in the 1980s. Iโm not sure what โkeep the path to ordination open to womenโ means, but there was no requirement placed on my bishop to ordain women during that time.