The turmoil in the Anglican Communion and the ECUSA interest us a great deal because it’s interesting in and of itself, but also because of what it tells us about the road of "God is doing a new thing." Today Christopher Johnson reports that eight – count them eight – more parishes in Northeast Florida might be cutting ties with ECUSA, adding to the six that did so in 2005.

Fourteen in one diocese. While the secular media dithers about how the Roman Catholic Church’s stances on various issues (mostly sexual) is so "alienating"…we have fourteen parishes in a single diocese leaving the liberal ECUSA fold for a more conservative alignment with the Worlwide Anglican Communion…wow. Talk about alienating.

(Mary Jane, I know you’ve helped out musically at St. Michael’s in Gainesville, by which I used to drive several times a day…any perspective? And does anyone know if All Saints’ in Lakeland, while not being in "northeast" Florida – is one of the parishes in question?)

And from the comments on MCJ, a link to a post about a church in Livonia, MI that made the move this past Sunday)

For more, and interesting discussion, see TitusOneNine