1776 and All That

Elizabeth E. Evans writing a guest column on Reuters religion blog:

While there is dissent from other voices in the Communion, at the moment there is an element in the Anglican crack-up that seems familiar. After all, American Anglicans lived without prelatical supervisors for hundreds of years — and then had to go to Scotland to get Samuel Seabury consecrated as bishop in 1784 because he couldn’t take the oath of loyalty to King George III.


Posted by Jim Naughton on December 19, 2009 10:10 AM | |
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