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@realcaseyrollins @amerika @jforseth210 most Anglicans today are Africans. I'm not sure how one self describing as a WASP has such a great pulse on that population. Fascinating idea. I wouldn't agree but would be interested to see the evidence behind the claims here.

@trinsec great point that only asking questions that apply to one situation makes us blind to other situations.

@realcaseyrollins @jforseth210

Last one I think, and I look forward to any constructive dialog here....

The arch bishops are peers and if regions start to go off the biblical rails, the others can step in to hold to account or take action.

That's happened with The Episcopal Church USA, so the African bishops eventually acted and started what is now called the Anglican Church of North America, a bit of biblical reform in the US and Canada.

I LOVE the fact that I joined a Rwandan Anglican church. There is a little African liturgy in our services. I loved the international unity of it, and having a reminder that this is not an American or English thing. (It's now its own province with its own North American leadership.)

The Anglican Church is sort of....a middle way, both catholic and protestant. Or one or the other depending on which Anglican you ask.

I love the theological depth behind every part of the liturgy, which can only seem boring if you haven't been informed of that theological depth.

I've found that I'm much less judgmental of others from all church traditions since being Anglican. I love that we're not in chosen conflict with other congregations of other traditions. There is one body, after all.

And that's full circle to the topic of why Anglican to address conversing between catholic and protestant.

So...you know....covert.

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@realcaseyrollins @jforseth210

From most of my life not in a historical church tradition, I think the fault with protestantism is that we're always ready to protest....over positions, people, music, budget, carpet color, and tertiary theological issues. I've lived through all of those.

Anglicanism values unity in the church so not easily having a split. It's not biblical to schism over those things, and one would hope Bible churches wouldn't keep doing that.

We have a church structure of deacons, priest, bishop, the biblical roles from the Greek words deacon, Presbyter, Episcopas), but with Christ as the head of the church, there's no top dog papa bishop.

@realcaseyrollins @jforseth210

We are a historical church and share so much in common with Roman Catholics. An Anglican service and a catholic mass feel very similar. I think the RCC will even accept Anglican (and Lutheran) priests (who if already married are the only married RC priests) .

At the same time, the church has theology shaped/corrected by the reformation. There's alignment on most things theological with anabaptist and Evangelical and non denominational, and even orthodox church traditions on all the primary issues.

It's a natural unifier.

@realcaseyrollins @jforseth210

Oh. A serious question. Fair enough, I threw that out there.

Anglicanism came out of a theological tradition of bridging the gap between Roman Catholics and Protestants,so it is a natural fit here. There's a... 3 legged stool that supports Anglicanism: Bible, Tradition, and Reason.

I typed a lot... Will break it into a few posts...

@jforseth210 not having watched the video, I'm hoping it was light hearted as a shirt and a productive conversation.

The real solution to the topic, of course, is for everyone to become Anglican. 😜

@VerdanuOsane@mstdn.io T-mobile tells me I can file an insurance claim and pay the deductible. Apparently their phones melting down on their own is treated as the customer's fault.

I am concerned the phone is going to burst into flames at I sleep tonight.

@VerdanuOsane@mstdn.io yes! Wild... Here's a photo of the melted charging cable. I'm using the phone.. Still smells like burning metal, don't have a device to take a photo of the melted inside of the charging area.

@realcaseyrollins @Meeper fear is different. We don't enter fight or fight with just any emotion. And the freeze phase of fear, complete immobilization, seems unique.

I keep going back to the (partial) quote from Dune: Fear is the Mind Killer.

@ReadyKilowatt wow. A letter to the editor that the author hates those he disagrees with under the title of Reading is Good.