Liberty in Christ

I greatly appreciate N's words earlier today - we need very much to move away from the disputes and disagreements of the Victorian era and to move forward in the common life and work of proclaiming the Gospel of Our Blessed Saviour to which we are all called and by which we have all been made one Body. We should all deeply respect and honour one another's positions (even if we disagree with them) and engage all questions of religious difference in a reverent, dispassionate, and charitable manner, simultaneously recognising that many of the matters recently discussed are indeed deeply-held beliefs which are matters of conscience and faith. For example, I vehemently support the right of a churchman not to have Eucharistic devotions as much as I vehemently support another's right TO have them; Anglicanism's past successes and future strengths lie in the liberty of conscience and expression which has always manifested the best of what we are. Anglicanism also has theological boundaries, and together we should explore and determine what those are - as brothers, together, in one mind and heart. I pray that my meagre contributions to the recent discussion at hand have served, not to polarise or divide, but to intensify, sharpen, and clarify the issues at stake, all the while giving the honest perspective of one who does hold certain beliefs and expressions to be sacred and worth preservation. Let us persevere in well-doing and, above all, in supernatural charity in God, for God, and for one another. Jesus Christ be praised.