The great Anglican divide

Lowville split a 'microcosm'
October 08, 2008
Jon Wells
The Hamilton Spectator
LOWVILLE (Oct 8, 2008)

It looked the same as any perfect Sunday morning at the stone church on a hill -- sunshine backlighting the Niagara Escarpment, leaves starting to blush with fall colours in the bucolic village nestled between Milton and Burlington.

As usual, there was Edgar Stokes helping out at St. George's Church in Lowville as he's done for decades, the diminutive man with white hair brushed back handing out service pamphlets, wearing a red pinstriped shirt and bolo tie with a Christian dove design.

But things are not the same at St. George's, and likely never will be.

While about 20 parishioners pray under the old wooden beams of the church, most of the congregation is farther south, inside the natural light and modern teal and white colours of a chapel in the Crossroads Centre along the QEW. the rest