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| Post 1: I don't know much either about the specific churches in Monroe or your history with them, but I hope that AAPC becomes a great place for you to worship and minister. I typically try to discourage people from changing churches, but since you've already done it, I hope it goes well. by: Paul Baxter (URL) on 2005-10-25 12:53:13 Post 2: So spill already: what's the deal with becoming an Episcopalian and then re-Presbyterianizing yourself? You're like Vanessa Williams: she was Miss America, then she wasn't Miss America. She was on the Corn Flakes box, then she was off the Corn Flakes box. So, what gives? I know. It's the polyester. Not enough synthetic fibers at the Episcopal Church, was there? by: John Allen Bankson (URL) on 2005-10-26 10:00:58 Post 3: Thanks, Paul. I typically try to discourage people from changing churches, too. John Allen, here's the Reader's Digest version: I grew up in AAPC. Hollie's family moved to Monroe and joined Auburn Avenue when she was a senior in high school. My family moved to Idaho, but her family is all still here. I moved to Idaho for college, we got married, and I became a wannabe evangelical Anglican in a land without a viable Anglican church. Moved back to Monroe and joined an Anglican church with some Anglo-Catholic tendencies (tendencies I don't like but that I have a higher tolerance for than Hollie does), while also attending Auburn Avenue regularly. Hollie never really felt at home (liturgical-theologically) in the local Anglican churches, so on the advice of an Anglican priest friend, we finally decided to join Auburn Avenue for the time being, as it's the obvious place where we could really commit ourselves together. So I haven't really re-Presbyterianized myself. Our Episcopal rector even offered to keep us on the books if we just went to Auburn Avenue without doing anything official. Problem there was that we would have had our feet in both places and been grounded in none. Auburn Avenue knows that I see myself as an Anglican sojourning back at home with them and that I still desire to eventually serve in Anglican holy orders. But more than anything, I see myself as a mere Christian who holds his denominational loyalties very loosely. by: jon (URL) on 2005-10-26 10:52:17 Post 4: Since I've now linked this explanation on my sidebar, here's a link to Auburn Avenue's website for any interested visitors. by: jon (URL) on 2006-01-18 11:24:01 |