The comment was tongue in cheek. I have also had experience of a “liberalism” that is exclusive, intolerant, closed-minded, etc. It’s a kind of fundamentalist liberalism that is as concerning as conservative fundamentalism.

John,
Your perspective of the Anglican Church of Canada being “…inclusive, accepting, tolerant, welcoming, open-minded…” is not what I have experienced. As a Christian that believes the Holy Bible is authored by God, and also believing that only Christians go to heaven I have been made to feel outcast, unaccepted, not-tolerated, and unwelcome by a group of people that are incredibly closed minded against anything that does not fit in with their liberalism.
To claim to be “…inclusive, accepting, tolerant, welcoming, open-minded…” is a remarkable contrast against the way that Rev. Jacob Worley was treated.
Allan

Karen,
Why are you referring to God as “she”. Whenever the Holy Bible gives any indication to the gender of God it is always in the masculine. “Our Father, who art in heaven…”
Perhaps this “political correctness” is a big part of the problem in why so many people have left the Anglican Church of Canada and are not coming back.
Allan

We Anglicans tend to be proud of our church’s image liberal, inclusive, accepting, tolerant, welcoming, open-minded, generous, and all that other good stuff. But for some reason, these don’t apply to Tim and the Glory Boys.

You say, “this is a desperate attempt to convert the unconverted, describing God as nothing different than who we already are. This invitation provides little challenge for us or the world to be altered by a choice for a life lived in Christ.”

Goodness, what a damning attitude! Such intolerance! And with absolutely no evidence to back it up! So I have to ask, How on earth could you know these things? Is it the name, Tim and the Glory Boys, that bothers you? Is it the joi de vivre evident in their videos that offends Anglican sensibilities?

I challenge you to go and check them out. Frankly, I don’t think I would like the music either, and the culture is not my culture. But my theology tells me God is bigger than my personal tastes, and God works through things and people of which I deeply disapprove. It may irritate me, but that’s God’s prerogative, and it reminds me to work on being humble and open-minded.

Unless we are a bit more truly liberal, we are simply confirming the old gibe, “The Anglican Church: Worshipping God with a Slightly Superior Attitude since 1534.”

Karen Pidcock
Kaslo, BC