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My wife knows an Episcopal priest who fills in around the diocese here as needed, and she's a wonderful human being. Also being semi-retired she says what she feels is right and the local bishop just has to deal with it. Livin' the dream, from what I can tell. She's a perfect example of a woman in leadership who is 110% comfortable in her own skin. I wish we had more female leadership in church, government and business. It brings a needed balance to things.
That's what this priest is doing for us. She is retired, but filling in here and there since our last priest, who was part-time since we aren't able to pay a full-time priest, retired for good and went to Florida.
He had been a Catholic priest who became disillusioned as a young man, married and had a career in marketing, then became an Episcopal priest for 6 years upon his retirement from the corporate world.
There are a few out there like these people, male and female.
I am in NJ, and our bishop is open-minded, though he does hold to the rules of the organization. Sometimes you just gotta work around that.
I just sit here and wonder why a member of a religion that has been decided NON-Christian as long as it's existed.....would want to identify as a Christian?
We have people posting here from several different groups that have historically self-identified as being different from the rest of the Christian mainstream, even claiming to be the only representatives of Christianity on Earth....yet here they are saying they're just ordinary Christians. Why?
Why deny major facets of the faith, and still believe you are one of us? Why is it so important to you?
It's common now. I KNEW things like this would happen as soon as they started calling spiraled zucchini and pasta sauce "spaghetti".
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