Comments on: Looking toward God’s own pruning

By: Bill Musselwhite

Bill Musselwhite — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:21:45 +0000

I m always fascinated by comments such as: “For too long, both Catholic and Protestant churches were filled with nominalist Christians for whom church has been a mere social club to exercise power, influence and money, rather than a school by which one is saved—that is, reshaped and reformed by God.” Well, says who? I joined the Anglican church as a teenage in the mid-50s, left it for a while in the 1960s to become an agnostic, and returned in the 1970s. Were there “nominalist” Anglicans? I suppose there may have been a few but over the years I met more nominalist” priests than laity.

By: Curt Gesch

Curt Gesch — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:58:06 +0000

I found your last paragraph, especially, a call that speaks to me. I am unable to suggest how the questions you ask may be fruitfully asked in every place, and don’t know what to do about that. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

By: Rae Struthers

Rae Struthers — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:05:06 +0000

Leigh….thank you for solid reflection and challenge….pruning…..my wife has been an amateur master gardener…..we struggled over pruning….years ago I had a lame poster of greenery with a J.H.Newman quote: “Growth is the only evidence of life.”….My wife has shown me that most plants do poorly without skilled pruning….it is essential.