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To: Republican Wildcat

Our neighbor stopped attending the Methodist Church in our town because of this. She told me many others have left for the same reason. (One reason specifically is because of a woman Assistant Pastor.)

The church no longer can support the work via regular tithes and offerings, and relies on the income from their large thrift shop and other small efforts to supplement it. They believe it will close soon.

It used to have a large congregation, and was a stable presence in the area. Gorgeous building. Sorry of pitiful.


16 posted on 10/21/2023 4:56:15 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Normal" is never coming back.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
We left the Episcopal Church for many reasons, but female pastors was one of them.

Our parish was the training parish for the diocese, so we saw every female minister that was ordained in the 25 years or so we were in that parish.

One was a fairly decent pastor (though far left). The rest had gone into ministry for all the wrong reasons - political mostly. Feminists seeking to prove a point, lesbians ditto, leftist activists seeking a platform . . . preaching the Gospel was way down the list, if it was on the list at all.

My husband's last straw was when the denomination consecrated as bishop a man who left his wife and two daughters to "marry" another man - and run a website for "questioning teens." As he said, "If he'd run off with the church organist they'd have defrocked him . . . "

It's another dying denomination.

17 posted on 10/22/2023 5:35:46 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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