The crowd attending the B.C. Supreme Court trial in which four dissident Anglican parishes are claiming ownership of the multi-million-dollar places in which they worship has received some entertaining lessons in the meaning of “orthodox.”
The conservative parishes are claiming they’re the “orthodox” Anglicans in B.C.’s diocese of New Westminster. Their priests say they’re the true followers of hundreds of years of Anglican tradition -- and that’s a key reason they deserve to hold onto the properties even though they’ve quit the Anglican Church of Canada.
The conservative priests have maintained for years that Vancouver-area Bishop Michael Ingham is decidedly “unorthodox” in his approval of same-sex blessings, his interpretation of the Bible and in his openness to other religions and philosophies.
There was a surprise in store, however, when Regent College professor John Stackhouse, an...
