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July 29, 2005
What Anglicans Believe
The other day I saw a copy of Bishop Spongs book Why The Church Must Change or Die. I almost started laughing at the idea of a liberal theologian from a denomination that is still undergoing a rapid decline in numbers from a combination of an aging and dying membership and a general lack of purpose telling the church at large what to do to prevent its death. From a pragmatic point of view alone (although the same could be said from a theological point of view) good advice for a church that wants to grow is this: do the opposite of what Spong says. Spongs attitude is greatly reflected in the following article about the trend of liberal denominations to divest from Israel friendly businesses, a trend which I blogged about many months ago.
Somewhere around Amherst, I asked Lawrence what Anglicans believed. His face took on a deep, pensive look. 'We believe,' he intoned, 'in civil rights for Negroes, the admission of Red China to the United Nations, and friendship with Castro Cuba.' I do not at all want to belittle the bishop. I liked him. He was not pompous. And probably he thought that this clever Jewish boy from New York would not really be asking him a theological question, which is exactly what I was doing.
Posted by Pete at July 29, 2005 05:40 PM
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