This thread has made for fascinating, and educational, reading. Having read through the links I found that the Quaker 'code' chimed with me. My impression is that if they were to have a motto it could well be 'Above all do none harm'. The lack of hierachy is admirable.

There is a Friends Meeting House in Hampstead. I may well go along to one of their Meetings.

I like the philosophy of the doctine with the Christian Church. By birth, I am R/C. Soemtimes, though, I would hanker for High Anglican. They believe that marriages som etimes dont work for people and they still let them have communion. Whereas with the R/C church, its eith all or nothing. With the rise with the divorce rate, or people not staying together like they used to, this, I feel is the right way forward. On the other hand though, with all the goings on behind the scenes, would I actually take the jump and go over to the anglican side??

..or Methodist? or, like my daughter..Buddhist?

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Wise words Don B and thanks also to the link about Our Lady of Willesden, I really enjoyed reading the website about it as I had never heard of the Church before

And in the last week of the Easter season, here is the Easter candle at St Botolph's Aldgate in the City of London, where it has burnt at every service since Easter Eve.

Well, if the problem is that being divorced you and your wife are being denied Holy Communion by the RC Church would it be so wrong to join in The Eucharist at a High Anglican Church?  If you feel the need to partake but your Church forbids you is it against the rules to seek it elsewhere?  It's still the body and blood of Christ whoever administers it, isn't it?

Is there a Theologist in the House?

Well go along to an Anglican service and see.  Do bear in mind that they can be very different, and Brighton is particularly atypical.  Rumour has it that there is one evangelical church in the suburbs, otherwise Brighton is dominated by the catholic influence.  Father Wagner, the Vicar of Brighton in the C19 had Private Means, which he spent building one anglo-catholic church after another, the most spectacular being St Bartholomew's Brighton, reputedly to the dimensions of Noah's Ark (it is sublimely, wackily, spectacularly, outrageously wonderful.)

Many of the Brighton churches refuse to have women priests on principle.

There strikes me a key difference in RC and Anglican services which is hardly ever mentioned.  RCs know they ought to go to mass, but they do not necessarily participate much.  There are far more people at one service and far more services (including the decadent habit of Saturday evening masses.)  The thing that impresses me is that a vast number of people of all ages and backgrounds join together, but generally in a rather detached manner.

It is rare for there to be more than one service in an Anglican church and the services are less impersonal, whatever the churchmanship (whoops, exclusive language.)  The downside is that the members may see themselves as first of all being a member of St So and So's, rather than an Anglican or a Christian.  The congregations inevitably tend to attract the same sort of people.

St Mary's Kemp Town has a very sweet vicar who works in a bank during the week.

http://www.stmaryschurchbrighton.co.uk/

I suspect the photo called "Some members of the church" is everyone in church that Sunday.

Ironically enough, it's actually less than 100 yards from St Bart's (I almost typed 100 years).