A High Church of England

I quite like the set responses and intonations if the service doesn't go on for too long. Finding the right balance is important. Here in Singapore of course most anglican congregations spend an hour or so singing badly written praise and worship songs before the preacher gets up and rants about conservative evangelical issues and being born again but when you get a good compact rendering of the communion service it can be done in slightly over an hour. The book of common prayer is a major achievement of English literature and if suitably condensed the service is a thing of beauty.

Evensong is also incredibly beautiful and the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols is lovely.

I most enjoyed Church when we had a Welsh vicar (a strange occurence in rural Lincolnshire) who we called Father (to great shock amongst the elderly). He was very laid back and humourous and made his sermons very accessible. My parents called him Daddy G.
 
OK this is a gross oversimplification of the mid-Stuarts. First off all, Charles I had no desire to return to Rome. He never expressed an interest and resisted efforts by his wife to do so. Charles II did a lot more then merely "sleep around". He tried to make the Anglican Church more inclusive to Presbyterians and non-conformists. Sadly it failed because of Parliament. James II, I can't really dispute that.

Obviously Charles II did more than "sleep around" but by that I meant that he was willing to bend with the wind on religious matters despite his private Catholicism. As for Charles I I didn't say he was a crypto-Catholic who had some grand plan return England to Rome. That was his son. But he was setting it on a path where the C of E would be Catholic in ritual terms and from there it's only a short step to English Gallicanism. I think if Charles I had won his various conflicts had been able to enact his ideas I think some form of re-union with conditions aka English Gallicanism would simply be a matter of time.
 
Anglicanism is a religion.

Ah, another drive by post.

There are cultural aspects to religion. A person can feel an affinity with the cultural aspects without necessarily adhering to all (or any) of the religious aspects.

Now are you going to engage in an actual response to my points?
 
Ah, another drive by post.

There are cultural aspects to religion. A person can feel an affinity with the cultural aspects without necessarily adhering to all (or any) of the religious aspects.

Now are you going to engage in an actual response to my points?

...and also a person might have two parents, one each of two different faiths. Kids grow up celebrating Hannukah and Christmas too, depending on the parents. I myself am Anglican, which in largely fundamentalist rural Alaska is hard to achieve. :)
 
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