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I was waiting for intimacy until marriage, or that was the plan, but I ended up having sex repeatedly with my then-fiancée. I thought it was okay because we were going to get married. But a few months ago, maybe six months, she called off the wedding and broke up with me. (Over the phone! Which IMO is a bit callous considering we were engaged, but whatever.)

I have OCD and some other mental health challenges, and this has been really difficult for me. I feel like I’ve completely betrayed God and also my own standards for myself. I’ve talked with my priest, who says there are worse sexual sins to commit than loving intimacy with someone you earnestly planned to marry, but I still feel awful. I feel tainted and less than, and like I have no right to ask future partners to wait til marriage when I didn’t even wait myself. I had so badly wanted my first partner to be my only partner, which has made moving on from everything very difficult for me. I wish we hadn’t ever slept together, because you can never take it back. I feel like when I was baptized (as an adult) I was given a chance to be a new person, and I just threw it away.

I would appreciate any advice anyone has about moving forward or how I should conduct myself in the future. (Besides the obvious—at least I’ll hopefully not make this specific mistake again.)

So I am Catholic and have grown very tired of the Catholic community and how women are commodified in the community and how they seen as baby makers and with all of these red pill manosphere types running around the community. I am so very close to just becoming Anglican. Do you guys have any statements or anything else that could continue to drive me forward into this process?

I know this reading about the Canaanite woman came up in the Episcopal Church's lectionary this last Sunday. I think we rightly read the Gospel of the Canaanite woman for liberationist themes, and I'm wondering if there is a way to do it that also keeps in balance certain key Christological ideas—for instance that Jesus Christ should be called Immanuel, God-with-us (Matt 1:13), that he is the fulfillment of the law (Matt 5:17), that he is innocent and sinless (Matt 27:24; 2 Cor 5:20–21; Heb 4:15). Perhaps this comes close:

>Jesus, seeing this sin arise among his members, does what Jesus always does: he takes this sin upon himself. He loads this sin upon his own shoulders, places it on his own burning lips—but somehow he does this sinlessly. This is what he always does: he takes our sin while yet remaining sinless. We do not see this. We do not understand this. And so like Pilate, like the high priest, we reckon Jesus Christ a transgressor, just like the Prophet Isaiah said we would. We judge him. We judge him for he says, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” Never mind that he says this the way a rabbi or a Socratic teacher proposes a thesis—so that it can be refuted and shred to bits by the disciple, so that the disciple will grow in their own strength and power. (And indeed, that is what the Canaanite woman does.) But more than a rabbi or a Socratic teacher, Jesus acts like the God he is: taking the evil that breeds death and division, and throwing it into the fire of faith that is his own life in the heart of the Canaanite woman.

Hello ACNA Subgroup,

I am not a member of an Anglican or Episcopal congregation per se, but read a fair amount including the Bible to aid my spiritual ghrowth. For several years, some writers within Jewish Spirituality have influenced my own spiritual growth, and recently became aware of Christ Church Jerusalem, online.

I just started reading R. Lawrence Kushner's How Jesus Became God, for example. Here are my wonderings:

Would voices such as N.T. Wright, R. Gerald McDermott, J.I. Packer, be examples of the orthodox/conservative category of Anglicans; Rowan Williams, and Richard Morray, (forgive spelling) be the more liberal-minded spokespersons in the denomination's authorial circle?

Finally, how would Anglicans in general hold fourth century writer, Ambrose?

His citation concerning death being a positive for the believer on the website CommonPrayer.net, was 'spot on' in my estimation. Thank you!

Hello, I don’t mean to cause offense by asking this question. I understand the message of the gospels is love. But when it comes to the fate of those who are not saved, what is the general feeling? I’m sure there are possibly a range of views from universalism, purgatorial universalism, annihilationism, traditional ECT.

I myself seem to have come to the conclusion that annihilationism makes the most sense. Matthew 10:28 says we can lose both body and soul in Gehenna. The Apostle Paul says the wages of sin is death in Romans 6:23

The wicked often described as being destroyed and ceasing to exist. Scripture speaks of “eternal life” for the believer. Not “eternal bliss compared to eternal torment” but “life vs death”.

God alone is immortal (1 Timothy 6:16) and eternal life is a gift to believers through Jesus (2 Timothy 1:10).

Perhaps the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 is explaining the temporary torment in Hades that happens before the second death Revelatiom 20:14 is where Hades is thrown into the Lake of Fire.

The eternal fire Jesus references (Mark 9:48) is an old Hebrew reference of the literal corpses being completely consumed by fire and worms (Isaiah 66:24). Meaning the fire does its job until nothing is left. It’s still going because the world is continually producing more of the wicked.

But ultimately it’s the punishment of non existence that is eternal not the experience of eternal conscious torment in hellfire.

I’ve heard the Anglican Communion was potentially open to this view but I wanted to ask and see which views are most common.

Hi, first time posting! I have recently come back to faith and Jesus after 20 odd years as an atheist due to terrible childhood experiences in a Catholic boarding school. So long story short I have been hunting for a church which I feel safe and comfortable in.
I have visited a lot of my local Anglican CofE churches (Surrey, UK) and accidentally stumbled across a very literal and authoritarian low Anglican Church where I quickly knew I wouldn’t fit in with my person and political beliefs being vastly different.
The only annoying this is now that I have found a fantastic Anglo-Catholic church which is part of inclusive church and very peaceful and welcoming, I have realised how much I miss the bible study evening sessions at the first church.
My new church doesn’t really do that and most of the congregation are much older (I’m 30).
I’m missing the community aspect as I have to do bible study alone as none of my friends or family (or long term boyfriend) are religious.
Is there anything you recommend that I can do from home to help me learn more about the bible and feel more connected to God outside of Sunday?

Thanks for reading!

A loved one, who is a conservative Evangelical, has suggested a couple of Bible study books as potential birthday gifts. They are "Ten Women of the Bible" by Max Lucado and "Women of the Bible: 52 Bible Studies for Individuals and Groups" by Jean Syswerda.

I'm happy to provide both of these volumes at her request, but here's my question: are there any additional volumes on similar subject matter that offer a slightly more progressive view, but without being specifically antagonistic or off-putting to someone of an Evangelical background?

Thanks for your input!

(Note: my goal here is not to denigrate the authors who have been requested, so let's not go there if possible. Thanks!)

I just came across the website below (no doubt many already know of it). I’m wondering if anyone happens to know if something like this exists as a physical copy? Using the 1662 BCP text and Coverdale Psalter?

https://singtheoffice.com/se/2026/8/17/trinity-11-monday/evensong

I posted a thread on here a while ago( now under a different username) but wasnt clear

Im a young bi Anglo-Catholic guy but I attend a large( broad church) Episcopal parish as there’s no Anglo-Catholic parishes near near me

I’m into Classics, philosophy, theology, and the arts/culture

Where can I meet other young LGBT Anglo-Catholics with similar interests?

This is something that Has been making me have panic attacks for about a year now. I keep getting diffrent anwsers so im still unsure

Hey all, peace be with you.

I've not had much luck finding beautiful Anglican rosaries. I want to collect some that are a joy to use, both to enrich my faith practice, and to pass on to my children someday as well-seasoned and well-loved prayer items to encourage them when life gets hard. But when I look online I'm very disappointed. Most of them look cheap, and at that rate I could easily make my own. As an alternative, if you have a source of quality jewelry making items, i would take that too and use it to make my own. Regular craft supplies would result in what I'm seeing on Amazon, and Amazon is probably cheaper 😅

All said, thank you in advance.

Or, conversely, do you believe the average churchgoer of today has a substantially better understanding of the liturgy and the Bible than did the average churchgoer back then?

Genuine question asked in good faith as a fellow Anglican. Where in Scripture or in the first 2 centuries of the Church do we see the idea of Mary's assumption?

Or is this primarily a doctrine we see created during the later centuries of the Church?