Comments on: This far by faith https://anglicanjournal.com/this-far-by-faith/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Curt Gesch https://anglicanjournal.com/this-far-by-faith/#comment-31132 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:11:36 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162226#comment-31132 Thank you, editor, for your analysis and wise counsel.

]]> By: Paul Friesen https://anglicanjournal.com/this-far-by-faith/#comment-31126 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:01:10 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162226#comment-31126 We owe the Editor a vote of thanks for hitting the heads of two nails with the hammer of one column. A suggestion:
We should not mourn the decline of Christendom, but take note of how its decline has chastened us, and act accordingly.
And we should embrace our rebirth: not by changing for the sake of change, not by moving around liturgical deck chairs on the sinking Titanic of the institutional church, but by being faithful to the calling and confession of the church and being willing to let go of everything else. Here, with our Primate and Bishops we have the invaluable opportunity to hear the rising Indigenous church in our midst, and learn from the ancient, minority churches of the eastern, Orthodox world, neither of which have ever had their own ‘Christendom’ but are both faithful and vital.

Paul Friesen

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