Most absurdly in the program, the Aidan Quinn character is portrayed as a courageous priest challenging a conservative church hierarchy. In real life, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has a liberal bishop who is cracking down on dissenting conservative priests. The national Episcopal hierarchy is overwhelmingly liberal, and orthodox Episcopalians are increasingly looking to overseas Anglican primates for leadership and protection.
Quotes about anglican (13 Quotes)
We're getting letter from people saying they just feel refreshed by another voice within the Anglican church of Canada,
This is a bigger task than the whole Diocese of the Arctic can do, so we're reaching out all across Canada, to other Anglican churches, to individuals, to corporations and we're reaching out to foundations.
I can't even imagine not observing Christmas in an Episcopal (Anglican) Church.
Headmaster of Shore, Anglican School for Boys We train leaders, organization men if you like... people who make other people do what they want them to do, without them realizing it.
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
This body has denied the plain teaching of Scripture and the moral consensus of the church throughout the ages. This body has divided itself from millions of Anglican Christians throughout the world.
Although it would have been within his gift to do so, I think he took the view that there would be too many distressed communicants inside the Anglican Church for it to be a good idea,
The message is, we don't care about being part of the Anglican Communion.
EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word Everlasting, as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.
Our church is like a microcosm of the Anglican community. I've got 28 nationalities from every continent.
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.