Dear Jeff,

here's the original question I asked. I also asked it on the Church Locator Forum but didn't get a reply.

"I note the REC has recently agreed plans to merge with the APA. Am I right in understanding the APA is Anglo-Catholic in theology? If this is so what has motivated this tie-up amongst the REC and what place does an evangelical doctrine of scripture and salvation hold in its churches?"

William replied by asking me to define Anglo-Catholicism which I naively did.

In my second post I clarified what I was focussing on:

"I am not principally referring to High Church practices but to the doctrine of salvation and the authority of scripture."

rather than on particular habits in worship.

To answer as William has done really does not address my questions one whit.

If William wants to say he doesn't know the answer to my question, that's fine. But I don't really want answers to questions I'm not asking.

I hope this clarifies things.

In Christ,

James.