[Leroy S. Mort]

from the same source:

Popular Priest leaves Episcopal Church

As national Episcopal denomination splinters

By Betty Camp

MONROE - The Rever­end Doctor Foley Beach of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Monroe, GA., one of the leaders of the traditional and conserva­tive faction in the Episcopal Church, has announced that he will leave the Episcopal Church as of February 1, 2004. Dr. Beach has gar­nered a lot of community support from Gwinnett, Walton, Clark, Newton, Oconee, and Rockdale Counties and is forming a new Community Church that will have both a con­temporary and a tradition­al Anglican service. The first services of the new church will be held in Walton County at Loganville Middle School on Sunday, February 8 at 9:00a.m. (traditional) and 11:00a.m. (Contempo­rary). Future plans are underway for a building is be located centrally for Walton and Gwinnett Counties.

The rift among the con­servatives and the liberals in the Episcopal Church in America is careening down the course to its most dev­astating split in its history. About 90 percent of its Mother Church, the Anglican Church world wide, has strongly denounced the American Episcopal Church's arro­gance and tolerance of what it considers sin going unchecked in the Church. The Primates of the Anglican Church (Archbishops of Anglican Provinces all over the world) have spoken very strongly against allowing a change in Church doctrine and Biblical Interpretation. Many Episcopal Dioceses in America are conserva­tive and are struggling with the new Liberal direction the church has taken. A large group is consider­ing trying to re-align with the Anglican Communion or with other conservative Dioceses.

[cripplecreek]

you aren't alone. i am/was a methodist untill the church strayed so far from the faith in knew it may as well be wiccan.

when the reverends started making political statements of the anti gun bent, that right and wrong were objective to each individual, and any number of politically correct concessions to outsiders, it was simply over the line.

frankly ice found a greater freedom as a christian separate from the church. my faith has strengthened.

[TheGeezer]

Isn't the action of the majority of bishops evidence of the loss of the apostolic succession in the ECUSA? The teaching authority lost at the Henry VIII's apostasy and Elizabeth I's heresies has finally been made irrevocably evident, don't you think?

[Unam Sanctam]

FYI

[jocon307]

Thanks for taking the trouble to post this. This man sounds very sad, and I don't blame him. He is doing the right thing though, and that is most important. Godspeed to him in his new ventures.

[cavtrooper21]

Ping.
Very sad state of affairs for all.
The Episcopal Churches in Lawrence(although there is a large/vocal gay community in Lawrence) have both sided with the conservative side of the break. For which I am truely thankful.

[alaskanfan]

I remember my good friend Kale King.

His toes must be curling at the state of the present Episcopal Church.

[The Iguana]

The Rev. Beach is most welcome on my side of the Tiber.

[american colleen]

Sad, thanks for the story. It's heartening to see quite a few souls standing up for Truth.

Just curious... have many/any of the female ministers in the Episcopal Dioceses in America expressed outrage like the Rev. Foley Beach has done? I'm guessing no, but I really don't know. Thanks in advance.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Bumped as a reminder that Rev Beach's first services are tomorrow morning, as listed in the original post.