His Judgment cometh, and that right soon...
So, the recorded Sunday liturgy of a former parish where I was a newly ordained Anglican clergyman years ago happened to pop up in my Facebook feed this morning. Out of morbid curiosity, I clicked on it and kind of skimmed my way through it for old time's sake. I was truly aghast at what I witnessed. This parish had been a small but fairly active parish some 18 years ago now with a bustling Sunday church school with several kids and families between two fairly well attended morning Sunday services. The parish supported two full time priests (the rector and myself) and a few part time priests who were either semi-retired or worked at the University near by as professors. While the parish was on the liberal side of things to the point where I referred to this parish as 'my island of misfit toys'-it was generally at least liturgically pretty solid and I thought a good home for people who would otherwise have left organized Christianity altogether. I d...