Some have asked about my series The Good Shepherd Saga concerning the Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, PA) and why I have not posted anything recently. When I began the series, I was under the impression any further legal matters would be many months if not years away. Recent events indicate I was wrong. [...]
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The Rev. Tom Ehrlich, an Episcopal priest and writer for Religion News Service (RNS), has recently discussed in an article titled The New Anglicanism what he perceives as the issues facing Anglicanism in the wake of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, resigninh and the likely fallout. While the article is about as detached from reality [...]
The leader of every church is required to give some sort of message to the faithful as Easter approaches. After all, if you cannot articulate a coherent reason to be a Christian at the time when Christians observe the events the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, then you really have nothing to offer and no reason [...]
The pace has quickened in the Episcopal Church in its already rapid hellbound march. It seems every year’s joke about where the Episcopal Church (TEC) is headed is matched and exceded within a few years by the reality of TEC’s wanton disregard for the Biblical witness. Consider these few tidbits of recent TEC adventures: The [...]
Last Friday, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, announced he would be resigning his post. It is rather unusual for someone in this position who is in good health to resign a decade early but these are rather unusual circumstances. The very fabric of the Anglican Communion, for which he holds the position of leadership, [...]
After the ESA convention in 1997, it did not take long for things to begin to heat up for the Church of the Good Shepherd and other traditionalist parishes in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. In September of 1997, David Virtue of Virtueonline (then called Virtuosity) filed the following report: It was a Mexican standoff yesterday [...]
With all the drama that has overtaken the Church of the Good Shepherd, it is easy to lost track of the origins of the dispute a over a decade ago. By the end, the battle lines barely resembled where it began and the parish’s once united front had been broken by miscalculations and misdirections of [...]
Before going further with the history of the saga, I will spend at least this post on my personal account of joining and worshipping at the Church of the Good Shepherd. My own exprience at the parish began with my employment at a local bank (the long gone Fidelity Bank) where the parish had its [...]
Although it may not be noticed, the seeds of the recent saga actually precedes the tenure of the Rev. David Moyer as rector of the parish. Certainly the parish has not been without some drama during its history although certainly not of the current variety. Formed in the latter half of the nineteenth century as [...]
This will be the first in a series of articles on the events that overtook the Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, PA), my former parish, in its battles with the Diocese of Pennsylvania. It still amazes me how a quickly things unraveled and the parish’s unity, once its greatest strength, was destroyed by poor [...]
