I had an account some years ago under a different username. I don't recall what exactly that name was.
I am a preacher's kid. My grandfather was also a CoC preacher. I was a CoC preacher from 2003-2007. I did some preaching after that as well, on a fill-in basis, until 2011. I am a Navy veteran and now an Anglican Reverend within an independent Anglican jurisdiction. And I am a pariah to all of the non-institutional CoCers that ever knew me.
I have been able to mostly avoid the CoC since 2014 but I have been into their churches exactly twice since then. Also, when my wife died in April, my CoC parents came down for a couple of weeks and welcomed some CoC people into my home without first asking me. They were very odd people and I shall write more on that elsewhere.
Hello again
Re: Hello again
Hi Shane. Welcome back. I'm sorry to hear about your wife.
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Hi Shane, glad you're back. There is an Anglican congregation a few miles from me, and I've been thinking about visiting them some Sunday. I hope you'll post about some of your experiences, especially about your decision to become an Anglican.
"If I had to define my own theme, it would be that of a person who absorbed some of the worst the church has to offer, yet still landed in the loving arms of God." (From the book 'Soul Survivor' by Philip Yancy)
Re: Hello again
Welcome back. I'm sorry to hear about your wife.
