tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post5586255984112867731..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : Telling My StoryAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-18278095032745175542011-12-06T12:30:14.491-08:002011-12-06T12:30:14.491-08:00I am not going to weigh in on any of the doctrinal...I am not going to weigh in on any of the doctrinal or discipline issues in this post, as it is unnecessary. Like one of my mentors, C. S. Lewis, quipped when asked what he believed about this or that, 'It's all written in the Common Prayer book.' Though I am no longer a member of the Anglican communion, the original BCP still plays a large part in my life, even as a Greek Orthodox. 'Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, cleanse...'<br /><br />Thank God, all my memories of the Episcopal Church are good ones. My heart has been cleansed of the memory of the great disaster that plunged the leadership of that community by and large into open apostasy. I only remember the saints with whom I worshipped and worked.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this well-written biographical sketch. I am about to go to its sequel, and I'm sure not to be disappointed.<br /><br />Glory to God.Ρωμανός ~ Romanóshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00212143017939554092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-11379539881480341632011-03-16T16:33:38.282-07:002011-03-16T16:33:38.282-07:00Fr Petroc,
These are sad days for the Church of E...Fr Petroc,<br /><br />These are sad days for the Church of England. May the Holy Spirit move in your situation. May the grace of Christ flow freely through you to those you are called to serve.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-61328191812062608902011-02-18T22:44:58.345-08:002011-02-18T22:44:58.345-08:00Thank you Alice for your interesting and challengi...Thank you Alice for your interesting and challenging post. I'm an Anglican priest working in Britain, but am still sitting on the fence as regards the ordination of women. There are several women clergy in my own diocese. Your witness in a powerful one and profoundly moved me.Petrochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14075711496771007797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-8306902607409758482009-09-09T18:17:14.905-07:002009-09-09T18:17:14.905-07:00Alice,I read your story with great interest as I g...Alice,I read your story with great interest as I grew up at Good Samaritan and started attending again in the 1990s. I do agree that the ordination of women has contributed to the dire situation we now face in TEC. However, it was the changing of centuries of church teaching and embracing revisionist theology in the early 1970s to permit the marriage of divorced persons that laid a clear path for the further erosion of Biblical marriage that we are faced with now. I still attend Good Samaritan church, and do you know that there is no teaching on Biblical marriage or that marriage of divorced persons is not a marriage at all, but adultery. Well, the chickens have come home to roost. The only path for us is the path you have taken, and that is repentence for our own sin of embracing revisionist theology and allowing marriages that are really adultery. Sadly, many of my friends who like to wear the cloak of conservative theology are blind to God's truth and can not see that our very own Good Samaritan needs to repent and turn back to correct Biblical teaching on marriage. I hope that your story will give them the courage to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-44258200560196011312009-08-18T16:37:37.431-07:002009-08-18T16:37:37.431-07:00Hello Alice,
Thank you for posting this. It must ...Hello Alice,<br />Thank you for posting this. It must be hard for you, and I will pray that you have the strength to finish the task.<br /><br />I hope there is a way to share this story with our Orthodox brothers and sisters; I really feel that when the homosexualists finish with the mainline protestants, they're coming for us and the Catholics and we need to be ready.<br /><br />The PilgrimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-88532389639635821942009-08-17T16:35:15.231-07:002009-08-17T16:35:15.231-07:00What an intricate path, Mrs. Linsley, you went thr...What an intricate path, Mrs. Linsley, you went through in that whole ecclesiastical caper - being pushed into the "priesthood" by circumstances and various voices plus thoughts! Here it's worth noting that even the Devil can very much appear as an "angel of light" when it suits him, and apparently it was he who gave the push for you to go there!! [Note for nothing that we're commanded to "test the spirits!"]<br /><br />Yet, maybe God was Willing that you go through there so you could eventually see the full error thereof and be able to speak to others about it - truly His Ways can be so marvellous, and given how you were regularly praying to Him (which doesn't fit so overwhelmingly many of us, and that includes me, alas...), it just could be He Wanted you to see it for what it was, particularly as a witness to the body rot that had already insinuated itself into EOUSA's marrow.<br /><br />[What Spong, Pike and others had prepared the ground for in the '70s and '80s was to prove itself starting by about 1990, just as their Commie professors had done even by 1940! Thus, it took about not less than 70 years for EOUSA to collapse into the abomination it is now...]<br /><br />Very moving and edifying story!! Hoping that your gall-bladder surgery goes well and that nothing more serious reveals itself. God Bless!!!Sashanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-30242946688275971112009-08-17T13:40:12.646-07:002009-08-17T13:40:12.646-07:00Dear Alice,
God bless you for sharing your story....Dear Alice,<br /><br />God bless you for sharing your story.<br /><br />I am really looking forward to Part Two: The Joyful Repentant!!<br /><br />The Joyful Repentant...<br /><br />Amen to that!!!Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-43676337343396981332009-08-15T11:19:24.074-07:002009-08-15T11:19:24.074-07:00Lou, how kind of you!
I follow the news of St. L...Lou, how kind of you! <br /><br />I follow the news of St. Luke's in Maysville, KY. I'm so pleased to hear what our Lord Christ has accomplished among you. HE is faithful and will do more than we can ask or imagine!Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-53027519366318435972009-08-15T10:36:35.062-07:002009-08-15T10:36:35.062-07:00Dear Alice,
I have sent the URL for your Part 1 o...Dear Alice,<br /><br />I have sent the URL for your Part 1 of your story to the members of St. Luke's, Maysville, and others, reminding them that you came to succor us following our departure from the local Episcopal church in the Diocese of Lexington in that bleak time of December, 2005.<br /><br />We will always remember your coming to us open-hearted and open-handed, and we will pray for you and give thanks for your early blessings upon us. <br /><br />Lou BrowningAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-86865995069024041642009-08-12T02:46:54.772-07:002009-08-12T02:46:54.772-07:00Thank you for this. May God bless you.
jerry+Thank you for this. May God bless you.<br />jerry+Jerry Kramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12094303296574710855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-63614241192462307462009-08-11T15:09:35.514-07:002009-08-11T15:09:35.514-07:00You note that the ordination to the priesthood of ...You note that the ordination to the priesthood of the 11 women in Philadelphia came in 1974, the same year that the Episcopal gay-lesbian action group formed - called "Integrity" (hah!) The next year the "Me Too" document was sent by Integrity to all US Roman Catholic bishops. In 1975 more lesbians were ordained. Here is the account in Louie Crew's wn words: "More 'irregular' ordinations of women took place in Washington, DC, in September 1975, after our convention. In Washington at the time, on a missionary journey to our new chapters in the east, Jim Wickliff and I yielded to the counsel of friends who advised that our visibility at the ordination might put in jeopardy lesbians among all early ordinands." From here: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/gayhist.htm<br /><br />Do you know that further efforts to erode the Historic Faith and Practice have happened almost every year since 1974? The 1976 General Convention passed a resolution affirming homosexuals behavior, and in 1977, Bishop Paul Moore ordained Ellen Marie Barrett, who had served as Integrity's first co-president.<br /><br />The homosexual attack on catholic orders has been persistent and steady. Those who uphold Holy Tradition are on firm ground, but we are surrounded by many who hate us.<br /><br />If only right-believing Christians were this persistent and steady in their efforts to bring poor sinners to the Savior!Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-61742654750460245002009-08-11T11:13:32.833-07:002009-08-11T11:13:32.833-07:00A foot in the door for the ordination of non-celib...A foot in the door for the ordination of non-celibate homosexuals... yes... of course. I had not thought of this before but it makes sense. The penny which has been suspended these 20 years is beginning to drop.margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727534908302610374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-63251263656345986932009-08-10T17:22:41.370-07:002009-08-10T17:22:41.370-07:00I saw the link on Dean Lobs' site and dropped ...I saw the link on Dean Lobs' site and dropped in. I thank you as well.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-13550841811517172452009-08-10T09:49:27.828-07:002009-08-10T09:49:27.828-07:00Dear Alice, I am deeply moved by what you have wri...Dear Alice, I am deeply moved by what you have written and I trust by what will follow. Thank you for writing it - you do it well and with grace. Rick+Rick Lobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222099758990328410noreply@blogger.com