Challenges Quote by John Shelby Spong

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church…

— Robert Webber

The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It…

— Judith Herrin

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops…

— Gene Robinson

If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

— Wayne Mack

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone…

— Barry W. Lynn

The Episcopalians don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages? it's much…

— Ann Coulter

It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the…

— Lisa Rinna

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

— Pope Shenouda III

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.

— Sandy Adams

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the…

— Benjamin Franklin