Everyone’s writing about the big issues in the communion: homosexuality, schism, Lambeth, GAFCON, the global South, post-colonialism, the covenant, etc
These are a big deal, sure, but in the meantime, nobody is really writing about, well, Jesus. Or anything else. It’s not that I expect people to pretend that the big happenings aren’t happening, but as I’m more and more certain that Anglicanism is the direction for me, I’m eager to engage in conversations about theology, about spirituality, about God, about prayer, about Church history, about the Bible, about liturgy, about Christian life, about the environment, about poverty, about war, about government. About poetry, art, mythology, history, music, anything. There’s so much that is informed by faith that is worth talking about.
Instead, it’s all Church politics, all the time. It’s disappointing. Maybe Anglicans, especially in countries like mine where church membership is low and dropping, need to hear this: nobody’s going to want to join a church when the only issue is internecine politics. Even those who do, like me, are finding it difficult to stay enthusiastic.
Have you found a parish home yet? It sounds like maybe what you need right now is to focus your spiritual energy on your real-world religious community and let the virtual world tend to itself for a while longer?
You’re probably right about that, but no, unfortunately I have not. we’re in New York for the summer, and headed back to the DC area in a couple of weeks. When we’re back in DC we’re probably going to go to Cedar Ridge Community Church for at least the next year.
I’ve been to lots of nice Anglican churches, but not yet to one that really felt like home.