tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post1100883630563819788..comments2023-04-07T19:33:19.607+10:00Comments on Caliban's Dream: The Duck gets ToughAlcibiadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13132420102550256958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-71749283008178841222007-10-24T14:27:00.000+10:002007-10-24T14:27:00.000+10:00"the Helmet of Correctness"? Is that a euphemism f..."the Helmet of Correctness"? Is that a euphemism for a chastity belt or codpiece or some such?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-88358208701129317892007-10-24T09:03:00.000+10:002007-10-24T09:03:00.000+10:00When I was a youth leader in a typical Sydney Dioc...When I was a youth leader in a typical Sydney Diocese low church of the '60s, my rector chastised me for not regularly attending the Communion service. Typically a teenager, I found it difficult to get out of bed early on a Sunday morning. I pointed out that I was a Sunday school teacher from 9.30 to 10.30, usually at church meetings from 11 to 12 and back again preparing for youth fellowship at 5 remaining for Evening Prayer(Communion once per month)where I regularly led and occasionally preached and then coffee hour until about 10pm. Surely that was enough? No, he told me, Communion was the most important. I took that to heart, how things have changed.Brian Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-64919040372052397672007-10-24T08:58:00.000+10:002007-10-24T08:58:00.000+10:00The cynic's answer is that they want to be Anglica...The cynic's answer is that they want to be Anglican because the Anglican Church owns the properties they use, as well as a lot of commercial property generating huge $$$ in rents - but there really is more to it than that.<BR/><BR/>+Jensen and his supporters see themselves as evangelicals first and foremost, and Anglicanism is only the context in which they express this. They believe the "true" nature of the Anglican church to be evangelical (or more accuately called "Matthian" down here, which comes from Dean Jensen's former parish), and that all other expressions of Anglicanism are nothing more than unbiblical vestiges of Catholicism not yet purged from a doctrinally Puritan church.<BR/><BR/>Yes, they really do believe this. And as the reporter said, "Mmmmmmmm".Alcibiadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13132420102550256958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-53083076781631780282007-10-24T00:16:00.000+10:002007-10-24T00:16:00.000+10:00Based on what I have read about Sydney over the ye...Based on what I have read about Sydney over the years, I have no idea why they want to be Anglican to begin with...<BR/><BR/>I still find it rich that +Jensen accuses TEC of innovating, when he has encouraged and supported everything you name. The idea of an "Anglican" church demoting the Eucharist, or of supporting lay presidency, is so far off the rails I don't even know what to call it.Wormwood's Doxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882756844690851674noreply@blogger.com