The biggest property fight in Christendom
The trial comes almost a year after the majority of congregants in 15 traditional Episcopal churches voted to leave the national church because of disagreements about the nature of God and salvation as well as whether gay men and lesbians should be fully accepted. Northern Virginia has since become one of the most active areas in the country for the conservative, breakaway movement. Clergy around the country are watching this trial to see what happens to Episcopalians who want to leave — and take church properties with them.
posted Nov 17, 2007, 11:01am by Rodolpho Carrasco
And it’s a test of fidelity to Paul’s imperative to “let there not be lawsuits among believers.” I pray that those who want to leave will do so without taking diocesan property; I pray that bishops will show the generosity to let them go with that same property. The moral high ground will be seized by whichever side is first to say that the property doesn’t matter.
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Isn’t the Episcopal church in La Crescenta part of that fight?