Faith and life (was Re: Harry Potter and God)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Child Of Midian" <md at ...> wrote:
 
Tonks:
> As you might remember, I am an Anglican, high church, in the U.S. 

md:
> What does "high church" mean.
 
> I'm an atheist, we're high reality in the U.S.

Geoff:
The Anglican church tends towards two wings - high and low. High 
church believers lean towards the sort of practices, ritual and rites 
practised by the Roman Catholic church with quite formalised and 
set orders of service whereas the low (evangelical) wing is freer in 
its style of worship and, as I have pointed out, concentrates on the 
real basics of the Christian faith - belief in Jesus as God in human 
form without all the extras which we believe are not fundamental 
to following Christ.

I have used the analogy of a car in past messages. Each car has 
certain basic things to make it work, Automatic gearboxes, air 
conditioning, power steering etc. are useful add-ons but not 
essential to its operation. So, evangelicals could be considered 
to be the basic car while high church worshippers have all the 
extra bells and whistles.