Monday, April 8, 2013

Here's Another Question

Since the more recent "last straw" episode in The Episcopal Church, the 2003 election of openly gay Bishop of New Hampshire Eugene Robinson, which drove four dioceses and numerous other parishes out of TEC and into the arms of what eventually became the ACNA, how many Episcopal parishes have joined the Anglican Church in America? I think the number may be close to zero, and it certainly doesn't offset the number of parishes that have left.

Second, since Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina Mark Lawrence issued quitclaims for the property of all the parishes in his diocese, how many of those parishes have elected to take their property and join the ACA Diocese of the Eastern US? Has even one of those parishes even seen the ACA as an option? What does this say about the ACA, Presiding Bishop Marsh, and Bishop Vaughan?

Douglas Bess ends his history of "continuing Anglicanism" before l'affaire Robinson, but it would be a worthwhile commentary to add for any subsequent revision. On the other hand, has any "continuing" blogger, such as David Virtue or Stephen Smuts, remotely considered investigating this topic?