Fractured religion

[Sharp_Kid]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...01/nbish01.xml

[Fear_nam_Beanntan]

Well, that's what happens when a king starts a church because he wants to get divorced.

[ANDY-J2]

No that's what happens when you have competing creeds within the same church each jealously pursuing their own private agenda.The last century has seen nothing but strife and division within Anglicanism and after every crisis the church is left weaker and it's credibility is further dented.Now however the church has been so undermined that it lacks the ability to withstand further upheaval.I can't see the Anglican church surviving for much more than another couple of decades.

[HollyElise]

Ah.

Yes, the issue of women's participation and of homosexuality have been hot issues in about every church denomination in America. I've seen it replay again and again, and it does tend to be a very painful period for churches to work through, but so far, when churches split over this issue it is only temporary.

I happened to have been married by the man who took a stand in the Episcopal Church and allowed four women, of the first 11 women ordained, to celebrate mass in his parish. It was the first time it was ever done, here in my little home town. The Episcopal Church was one of the first to deal with this issue, more than 20 years ago. It made international headlines and split the church for a while.

Today, the Methodists are going through tough disagreement about homosexuality.

http://www.churchoftheadvocate.org/historymain.html