12/23 Update: Discussion continued here.
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For the "Anglican Follies" file.
Here is Kate Bottley, the "Dancing Vicar(ess)" of Blyth (or is that Blithe?):
Now, conservative Anglicans will simply dismiss this as yet another example of the antics of lunatic left clergy in the Church of England, but then they would need to explain the whys and wherefores of what occurs in ACNA's Diocese of the Upper Midwest (DUM). Here's a clip from the consecration of Stewart Ruch III, DUM's first bishop:
And a photo of something that happened at the same church. Fire jugglers!:
A friend mine commenting on this says,
I'm not the only one (to have left). There is a huge revolving door in that diocese: people come in by the droves, and the ones who buy what their selling stay, but a significant amount of members end up bolting for Catholicism or Orthodoxy--I know tons. They spend their years in that diocese getting silenced or marginalized if they don't drink the Three Streams Kool Aid. As a result, they create a diocese of uncatechized charismatic/evangelicals who dress up and play church.
Ouch. So which is worse, I wonder? The liberal Dancing Vicaress of Blyth or the "conservative" Dancing Fire Jugglers of DUM? Both end up forcing people who are seeking traditional Catholic faith and practice away from Realignment Anglicanism and into Roman, Orthodox or Continuing Anglican ranks. I must be honest and say that I'm feeling the latter's tractor beam on me these days. And I wonder how long the REC will hang in there with ACNA.