They are in fact saying that the Ecclesia Anglicana, the ancient Church of England, with its roots back in English history to the Roman occupation and the Patristic period, and the roots and trunk from which the world-wide tree of the Churches of the Anglican Family have grown, is now sufficiently apostate so as to place a moral urgency on those who count themselves the new guardians of orthodoxy (the branches of the tree) to secede from fellowship with it-or at least from its revisionist bis

Israel is planned as a venue because it symbolizes the biblical roots of our faith as Anglicans. I want those in the fellowship of our Diocese to know what this is about and why I am involved.

In 1998, the Lambeth Conference made it clear that the leaders of the overwhelming majority of Anglicans world-wide maintained the biblical view of sexual ethics - that sexual relationships are reserved for marriage between a man and a woman.

In his now famous interview with Simon Mayo, ++Rowan Williams tells us that the date of Christmas, Magi, oxen, asses, snow and star, are unlikely at best. Stars, the Archbishop thinks, "don't behave that way." Well, so much for miracles, and the prelate of Global Anglicanism goes on to say that belief in the Virgin birth isn't a necessary "hurdle" for new Christians to "leap over" before they get "signed up." Signed up when? At Baptism? Whatever happened to the Creed?

This brand of Palestinian-focused Liberation Theology is obliquely described in Sabeel's recent Christmas greetings to its supporters, which portrays the Christmas story as liberation struggle against the Roman Empire. "Rome" for Sabeel is implicitly the U.S. and its Israeli ally.