tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703933675593092725.post5132452107698100968..comments2023-05-22T08:55:16.160-04:00Comments on subversive orthodoxy: Inside a Reformed Episcopal churchGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00324636915206892169noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703933675593092725.post-72094950377052781752008-11-19T23:44:00.000-05:002008-11-19T23:44:00.000-05:00It looks much like the middle-of-the-road style wh...It looks much like the middle-of-the-road style where I got started. <BR/><BR/>The Reformed Episcopal Church - like James Parker Dees' tiny Anglican Orthodox Church, a later low-church split (Dixiecrat North Carolina Episcopalians from 1963 - think Virginian Low Church) - has changed a lot recently, high-churchifying and emphasising their Anglican heritage, approaching the Anglo-Catholic Continuing churches and I understand now interested in coming back under the Anglican umbrella in a proposed new American province (not the Episcopalians).<BR/><BR/>I've seen old-school Reformed Episcopal. Communion table the size of a tea-trolley and minister in black academic gown for preaching. Almost a trip back in time to the early 1800s. The only concessions to a more liturgical approach were a plain brass cross (unthinkable in that church 100 years ago) and little green superfrontal.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.com