ecclesiology.
my comment this morning on church structure and discipline:
i don't believe all this weight can rest on just a few men. the call of the body of christ is too intense for that. it needs to be spread out over centuries of tradition, over the hearts and gifts of many, over the purity of the sacraments, over the communion of saints, over the order of the body. i am an anglican because i actually believe that i have more freedom in that space than in this one. it becomes too easy in this one for one person's anxieties, woundings, foibles to get put onto another when that one individual is all that there is. it becomes too easy for one person to damage another person. not that it can't or doesn't happen everywhere. but i yearn for the protection of all those other things, all those other people
