{"id":4089,"date":"2005-08-22T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:58:02","slug":"a-strange-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4089","title":{"rendered":"A strange dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I dreamt that I was attending a Russian Orthodox service, and ++Rowan was censing the altar.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking a lot about church identity recently, and read an interesting blog here<\/a> by a priest who converted to orthodoxy. So the issues are circulating in my mind – what is it that I hold fast to as an Anglican? From where does my certainty or trust in the continuity of Anglican identity derive? Could I move to Rome or to the Orthodox?<\/p>\n

The most important thing for me is the community. Over a thousand years of continuous worship in the place I serve. Whatever happens in the stratosphere, the sheep need a shepherd to feed them (for better or for worse). And Christ was always with the sheep, not the shepherds.<\/p>\n

I also came across this recently: “If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish” (John Keble)<\/p>\n

Now there is a man to emulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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