Anglican Churches in DC: Main Page

This mini wiki allows readers to find an Anglican or Episcopal church in the greater Washington, DC area. The city has a bewildering array of Anglican and Episcopal churches. This site will help worshippers find the church that is right for them, allowing them to distinguish churches based on denomination, theology, worship, and geography.

Two points deserve note, one a guideline and the other an irony. The guideline is that the mini wiki should not be used to advocate for one kind of denomination or theology or worship style or (improbably) a location. Its point is objective information. Admittedly, this information assumes some basic starting points about Christian theology and the historical strands of Anglican thought, but wiki-editors should treat these as positive descriptions and not as openings for debate. The irony is reflected in the debates that are roiling the Episcopal Church USA and the congregations that have recently left it. This mini wiki is not meant to take sides, but the current debates and this site point to the same irony about the Anglican churches. Although Anglican churches have traditionally had a parish model, and retain much of the language of a parish churches, they now reflect a gathered church model as much as any other strand of American Christianity. In other words, to most readers and editors, geography will not be the only criterion for choosing a church. Again, this mini wiki reflects the fact of this development but not argue for its goodness or badness.

E. Lamar