The Anglican Mainstream
It's not where Americans might think.
Diane Knippers
August 25, 2003, Vol. 8, No. 47
KARL MARX had a good line about Episcopalians. In a preface to Volume 1 of "Das Kapital," he wrote that the "English Established Church"--of which the Episcopal Church is an American offshoot--would "more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income." Marx was referring to the Church of England's "Articles of Religion," a basic summary of its doctrine. His cynicism seems vindicated in the Episcopal Church's recent abandonment of biblical teaching on homosexuality.
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