"The history of the church is littered with the shells and remnants of purist and separatist movements, as is the world. From Babel to Utopia, from the Zealots to the Taliban, from the House of Shammai to the Sanctified Brethren — such efforts to lift and separate more often fall and dissipate. The church will always be a hospital for sinners, a field strewn with weeds and wheat; it is not the task of one sinner to judge another, nor the task of anyone to weed the field. We are instead called to grow and bear fruit — and it is the fruit that will be gathered in the harvest, not the stalks, be they weed or wheat."
Tobias Haller (BSG) is the vicar of St. James Episcopal Church, Fordham. The above quote is taken from his excellent blog, "In a Godward Direction", which really takes one inside the divisions of the Anglican community. Tobias is also responsible for the "Nunc Dimittis" music and video that you can link on this page on your left.
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