The Battle over Acceptance in the United States Anglican Community
“Accepting” has been widely used throughout society to define the sects and branches of Christian churches across the nation that choose to be queer-affirming. The battle over acceptance and affirmation has led many churches, including my own, to split and fracture due to the internal debate and turmoil over the theology of queer affirmation. Debate, which has a longstanding tradition of being positive within the Anglican faith community, became impossible for some, which saw the acceptance of all people in The Episcopal Church as a failure to include their voices. In the modern day, we now see two main Anglican sects within the United States, which continue on the Anglican tradition of dissension in an ever-changing modern era.
14 thoughts on “A Split Queery- The Battle over Acceptance in the United States Anglican Community”
Great project! I wish you had heard back from more people! This was such an in depth project — I really am impressed with how much content you fit into it.
I really enjoyed reading this! After hearing your thoughts and all the history when you talked about your project in the small group, I was excited to see whether or not the people you reached out to ever responded. Must be frustrating that not all of them did, but nonetheless, this was still very informative and felt like a complete story. Great work!
WOW! First of all– I love a good pun, so I really enjoyed this whole project from the outset. Secondly, I absolutely loved the historical and religious context you provided us with. I love history, and felt very well-situated going into the intricacies of the Anglican tradition. I wonder when we’ll fully move towards being queer-affirming, and whether that will every happen? Good job! –ars
OMG I love the pun! I think it says a lot that some people decided not to respond to you showing how leaders of faith are still hesitant to share their ideas. From what you gathered I think that this project really exposed what it means to be religious and queer. Amazing writing too:)
I loved how you made an analytical paper very easy and interesting to read. I think your choice to reach out to figures in the community was a great choice and also think that it’s very telling of the shortcomings of the church when people didn’t reach back to you. I learned a lot about the Anglican church and was very interested by your findings!
This was such an in-depth and such a well-written project! It was interesting to see, from the get-go, the differences between the two branches of the church depending on their willingness to talk about the topic. Sometimes it makes one wonder whether it is because they hate the topic or whether they do not have enough evidence to back their argument if someone interrogates them.
This was a very in-depth and powerful project even though you weren’t able to get input from leaders within the church, which, I guess, speaks for itself, and unfortunately clearly presents their views without them even participating. Overall, this was very well-written, and props to you for choosing an essay as your medium of expression!
Echoing what other people have said, it is unfortunately not a surprise that you didn’t hear back from a lot of these religious leaders. I really appreciate that you went out of your way to try to involve them in the conversation. I didn’t know much about the Anglican church before your presentation, but learning about the split was super interesting. Great job!
First, I also want to express my appreciation of the pun- it is truly magnificent. And I think you did a great job telling this story- it truly is a wild ride and I had no idea there was this level of drama in the Anglican community so I found it really interesting!
This was so well-researched and in depth, wow. I was very impressed by the obvious amount of work and effort put into this. I love how specific and through and to the point is. It’s unfortunate you only heard back from one Reverend, but, I think the insight provided was useful to the project. Loved the pun in the title name as well, it was very creative.
Love the title! Also really liked the essay itself as it was so incredibly comprehensive. I am not super knowledgeable on the ideas existing within the Anglican community so it was interesting to hear the perspectives of figures from the community on such a charged topic. And of course one would think about what it means when some people from the Anglican community are not even willing to address certain topics? Not willing to have a conversation certainly does not reflect well on them.
Although I am not Episcopalian I have heard a lot of speculation around this situation, and I have been interested as to why the debate is splitting the denomination like this and what the repercussions and consequences this split would have for both the denomination and the religion as a whole. I found your insight very interesting. I also did not know the fact that the Episcopalian church was an extension of the English Anglican church, so thank you for telling us that!
I loved! this project so much. At first, when you told us that you were going to be writing a research paper I was skeptical because I wondered how would one present a paper…. but you did such a great job presenting and I loved learning about the history. Again, your presentation skills are awesome — I loved being able to learn about this in what felt like a story telling setting.
I love the title. I think it’s so clever and engaging. You also did a fantastic job presenting.. The information you present is very helpful in understanding denominational differences. Anglican churches are definitely less discussed and understood in mainstream America. I’m from the south and really was not exposed to Anglican beliefs, so I really did learn a lot from your project.
Great project! I wish you had heard back from more people! This was such an in depth project — I really am impressed with how much content you fit into it.
I really enjoyed reading this! After hearing your thoughts and all the history when you talked about your project in the small group, I was excited to see whether or not the people you reached out to ever responded. Must be frustrating that not all of them did, but nonetheless, this was still very informative and felt like a complete story. Great work!
WOW! First of all– I love a good pun, so I really enjoyed this whole project from the outset. Secondly, I absolutely loved the historical and religious context you provided us with. I love history, and felt very well-situated going into the intricacies of the Anglican tradition. I wonder when we’ll fully move towards being queer-affirming, and whether that will every happen? Good job! –ars
OMG I love the pun! I think it says a lot that some people decided not to respond to you showing how leaders of faith are still hesitant to share their ideas. From what you gathered I think that this project really exposed what it means to be religious and queer. Amazing writing too:)
I loved how you made an analytical paper very easy and interesting to read. I think your choice to reach out to figures in the community was a great choice and also think that it’s very telling of the shortcomings of the church when people didn’t reach back to you. I learned a lot about the Anglican church and was very interested by your findings!
This was such an in-depth and such a well-written project! It was interesting to see, from the get-go, the differences between the two branches of the church depending on their willingness to talk about the topic. Sometimes it makes one wonder whether it is because they hate the topic or whether they do not have enough evidence to back their argument if someone interrogates them.
This was a very in-depth and powerful project even though you weren’t able to get input from leaders within the church, which, I guess, speaks for itself, and unfortunately clearly presents their views without them even participating. Overall, this was very well-written, and props to you for choosing an essay as your medium of expression!
Echoing what other people have said, it is unfortunately not a surprise that you didn’t hear back from a lot of these religious leaders. I really appreciate that you went out of your way to try to involve them in the conversation. I didn’t know much about the Anglican church before your presentation, but learning about the split was super interesting. Great job!
First, I also want to express my appreciation of the pun- it is truly magnificent. And I think you did a great job telling this story- it truly is a wild ride and I had no idea there was this level of drama in the Anglican community so I found it really interesting!
This was so well-researched and in depth, wow. I was very impressed by the obvious amount of work and effort put into this. I love how specific and through and to the point is. It’s unfortunate you only heard back from one Reverend, but, I think the insight provided was useful to the project. Loved the pun in the title name as well, it was very creative.
Love the title! Also really liked the essay itself as it was so incredibly comprehensive. I am not super knowledgeable on the ideas existing within the Anglican community so it was interesting to hear the perspectives of figures from the community on such a charged topic. And of course one would think about what it means when some people from the Anglican community are not even willing to address certain topics? Not willing to have a conversation certainly does not reflect well on them.
Although I am not Episcopalian I have heard a lot of speculation around this situation, and I have been interested as to why the debate is splitting the denomination like this and what the repercussions and consequences this split would have for both the denomination and the religion as a whole. I found your insight very interesting. I also did not know the fact that the Episcopalian church was an extension of the English Anglican church, so thank you for telling us that!
I loved! this project so much. At first, when you told us that you were going to be writing a research paper I was skeptical because I wondered how would one present a paper…. but you did such a great job presenting and I loved learning about the history. Again, your presentation skills are awesome — I loved being able to learn about this in what felt like a story telling setting.
I love the title. I think it’s so clever and engaging. You also did a fantastic job presenting.. The information you present is very helpful in understanding denominational differences. Anglican churches are definitely less discussed and understood in mainstream America. I’m from the south and really was not exposed to Anglican beliefs, so I really did learn a lot from your project.