Anglican Province of America
Overview
Continuing Anglican Movement
The term Continuing Anglican movement refers to a number of churches in various countries that have been formed outside of the Anglican Communion. These churches generally believe that "traditional" forms of Anglican faith and worship have been unacceptably revised or abandoned within some...
churches in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. This church considers the Episcopal Church in the USA to be heretical
Heresy
Heresy is a controversial or novel change to a system of beliefs, especially a religion, that conflicts with established dogma. It is distinct from apostasy, which is the formal denunciation of one's religion, principles or cause, and blasphemy, which is irreverence toward religion...
, thus it maintains a church separate from that body in order to follow what it considers to be a truly Christian and Anglican tradition.
In the 1960s, the Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA) increasingly involved itself with the Civil Rights Movement
Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was...
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