Let me explain, with respect to the latter point.
Read moreAs one example of the financial crisis brought on by the majority of bishops endorsing sodomy, the Episcopal cathedral in the Diocese of Western Michigan, built in 1969, had to be sold to a new and biblically faithful non-Episcopal local church.
Did the national Episcopal Church headquarters in Manhattan devote any of its income or trust funds to try to help avoid the loss of this cathedral in Michigan?
Read moreQ: How can a non-Christian react to God's calling?
Read moreI have known Dawkins for more than 20 years; we are both Oxford professors. I believe if anyone is "immune to argument" it is him. He comes across as a dogmatic, aggressive propagandist.
Read moreThey also said that they would create a "Pastoral Council" that would work with a "Primatial Vicar" to provide pastoral oversight for those congregations who cannot accept the ministry of their Bishops and those Dioceses that cannot accept the ministry of the Presiding Bishop.
Read moreThe American presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, condemned this poaching of souls on her turf as a violation of the "ancient customs of the church." To which the archbishop replied, in essence: Since when have you American liberals given a fig about the ancient customs of the church?
Such conflicts used to be decided in the Church of England by the king putting someone in the Tower of London. That does not appear to be an option in this case.
Read moreThese are just some of the more surprising confessions to come from the man variously described as Britain's angriest atheist and the self-appointed Devil's chaplain.
Read moreIn some ways, it gives Canterbury a curious kind of papal individuality, but without any obvious theological or scriptural warrant. At the same time, it undermines the ecumenical capacity of Anglicanism. It is also not clear how the Primates Meeting would bring these various disputants and communion-fractured entities together under a single presidency.
Read moreThe consecration was part of a response by conservatives to the decision of the Episcopal Church in 2003 to consecrate a divorced gay man, V. Gene Robinson, as the bishop of New Hampshire and to permit, as a local option, the blessing of same-sex unions. The move enraged conservatives around the world, who saw it as a repudiation of Christian sexual morality and, by extension, of the authority of the Bible itself.
Read moreThe classic Christian doctrine of sin is that human beings, made in the image of God, have rebelled against God, forfeited a primeval innocence and inherited a sin nature, which reproduces itself through natural human generation. Now part of the genetic code, the sin nature colors every human action and interaction, including every structure of human organization.
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