Christianity Today Liveblog on the Virginia Supreme Court Decision

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled in favor of the Episcopal Church in the state’s much-watched dispute over church property. But it’s just the latest ruling in what will continue to be a long fight.

Reversing a lower court’s ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court said that the Anglican churches cannot use the Virginia “Division Statute” (the state law governing property when “a division has heretofore occurred or shall hereafter occur in a church or religious society”) to file their claims.

But the actual answer to who owns the property is still a long way off….

Read the whole thing.

Posted in * Anglican - Episcopal, * Culture-Watch, Episcopal Church (TEC), Law & Legal Issues, TEC Conflicts, TEC Conflicts: Virginia

4 comments on “Christianity Today Liveblog on the Virginia Supreme Court Decision

  1. evan miller says:

    I read this yesterday on line. What a nightmareish country! It sounds even worse than Stalin’s Russia or the Third Reich. Just unrelenting misery, deprivation and hopelessness.

  2. Paula Loughlin says:

    Elves, I believe the above comment should be attached to the North Korea story. Though it is eerily appropriate in some ways for this post.

  3. evan miller says:

    Paula,

    You’re absolutely right. Don’t know how on earth I got it on the wrong post!

  4. New Reformation Advocate says:

    Evan and Paula,

    LOL. Just wondering: could it have been a Freudian slip?

    David Handy+