Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), in one of their hip church plants.
One priest comments, "So who knew IKEA sold altars?"
I mean, what in the actual heck is this? It looks like an ironing board. Why don't they have a real altar instead of this ugly abomination of a "communion table"? Where are his vestments? Celebrating Holy Communion in jeans, clerical shirt and stole? C'mon. Why isn't he facing ad orientum? Is he reading a laptop? If not, what is that thing? What are those fired clay things on the "altar"?
Folks, this isn't Anglicanism. It is an imposter. My Anglican jurisdiction, The Orthodox Anglican Church - North America, recently received two parishes from the ACNA and several clergy who craved traditional Anglicanism and therefore simply got tired of this and other pseudo-Anglican nonsense. I suspect we will receive more of their parishes and clergy in the futre.
By the way, ACNA's usage of the terms "abbeys" and leading "abbots" with respect to some of their church plants is consummate silliness. Abbeys are communities formed by monks, who are celibates, and abbots are celibate monastic leaders of abbeys. ACNA's "Mission Abbey" is no abbey, and Chris Sorenson is no abbot. Styling this community as an "abbey" is nothing more than "cool" factor, but a complete distortion of Church history.
(The reference to "Foley" in the top pic is to Archbishop Foley Beach, the Primate of the Neo-Anglican ACNA and the Ordinary of the ACNA's Anglican Diocese of the South.)
