The police investigation into fraud is ongoing, both the Episcopal parish and the breakaway CANA one down in Colorado Springs are hanging in there, and Don Armstrong continues to preach his gospel of love and kindness.
Because of the national body’s theological slide and vengefulness toward conservatives, Armstrong said, his group aligned with CANA – the Convocation of Anglicans in North America – the conservative North American missionary of the Anglican Church of Nigeria.
He said the allegations against him, and his subsequent defrocking by the U.S. church, came about because of his opposition to the church’s liberalism.
“It was clearly a witch hunt,” Armstrong said. “We are an enemy of the agenda of the national church and have been effective against them in the books we’ve written and the papers we’ve published. So to take us out sends a message to the rest of the clergy: ‘Do what you are told and keep your mouth shut.'”
[…] Armstrong said the few hundred Episcopalians who chose to leave his downtown parish a year ago have not affected Grace’s budget and ministry growth.
“We didn’t lose significant members,” Armstrong said. “We lost people who were troublemakers.
In his Feb. 17 fundraiser homily for Grace CANA’s legal defense fund, Armstrong compared Episcopal leaders to devil-possessed “pigs” whom he plans to run “over the cliff,” an allusion to a biblical parable in which Christ sends exorcised demons into a herd of swine.
“We are naming the evil, not wishing ill will on anyone,” Armstrong said later.
Any of his flock who stick with him deserve him.
“We didn’t lose significant members,” Armstrong said. “We lost people who were troublemakers.”
Ah, good to see those principles that Christ taught are alive in his heart. Raising money and driving out…ummm…demons, that’s it, demons!