GetReligion: Update on Episcopal/ Anglican language land
January 22, 2007

It’s time for a quick update from the Anglican/Episcopal wars in northern Virginia.

No, this doesn’t have anything to do with the lawyers for the churches or the national Episcopal Church establishment. This has to do with the other major player in this battle — The Washington Post.

As I mentioned the other day, it does appear that some people at the Post now grasp that the battles between Anglican conservatives around the world and the liberal Episcopal Church establishment here in North America didn’t start a few years ago with the consecration of one noncelibate gay bishop in New Hampshire. The fighting has been going on for decades and focuses on some very basic issues — which is that whole “tmatt trio” thing again. (Drinking game alert!) Here is a short version of those questions again:

(1) Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Did this event really happen?

(2) Is salvation found through Jesus Christ, alone? Was Jesus being literal when he said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6)?

(3) Is sex outside of marriage a sin?

And then there is my Episcopal bonus question: “Should churches in the Anglican Communion ban the worship, by name, of other gods at their altars?”

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