19th Century Evangelicals were willing to pay such a cost. But the signers of the document call us neither to prayer or to the disciplined sacramental life. In this they betray their own spiritual bankruptcy. They do not have the courage of their own theological convictions. They call other Bishops to action without cost.
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There are few who will engage in tough spiritual discipline, rooted as it is be in the classical Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical spiritualities. None of this is meant to be sarcastic. All of this is written from a puzzled and wondering heart. Yours sincerely, J. Michael Povey, Rector, St. Stephen's, Pittsfield, MA Louie Crew's Anglican pages . Louie Crew's home page .