Average Sunday attendance is considerably lower than membership figures. They are more reflective of what is happening at the parish level every week.
Read moreANGLICAN ESSENTIALS OF CANADA was represented by the Rev. Canon Charles Masters.
ANGLICAN MISSION IN AMERICA was represented by bishops Chuck Murphy, Sandy Green, T.J. Johnston, John Rodgers, and the Rev. John Miller.
ANGLICAN NETWORK IN CANADA was represented by Bishop Donald Harvey (former bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada's Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador).
Read more"This is a significant step towards a new Anglican province that will be recognized by a number of Anglican provinces and primates which embraces Common Cause Partners with a separate ecclesiastical structure called for by the bishops in Kilgali, Rwanda," said Duncan.
The litmus test of any radical departure from the church's pansexual agenda can always be gauged by TEC's official pansexual organization known as Integrity. Its leader, Susan Russell wrote this immediately after the HOB published its statement, "Integrity is gratified that the final response from the House of Bishops declined to succumb to the pressure to go backwards, but rather took some significant steps forward."
Read moreBishop Bruno and Bishop Charles Jenkins of Louisiana developed the new working draft with an earlier draft. During a closed-door executive session, the bishops discussed the two documents together for several hours without coming to any common consensus.
Read more"I was...surprised when a substantial majority declared the polity of the Episcopal Church to be primarily that of an autonomous and independent local church relating to the wider Anglican Communion by voluntary association. This is not the Anglicanism in which I was formed, inspired by the Oxford movement and the Catholic Revival in the Church of England."
Read moreAnglican Communion Network moderator and Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan echoed similar sentiments.
Ft. Worth Bishop Jack Iker said, "it sounded like a case of Mother Schori knows best and she will tell us what she has decided, in her good time. Rather condescending! She has not consulted with one bishop who requested APO. Feels to me like a case of 'too little, too late'. Wasn't DEPO a failure for the same reason?"
Read moreReports, leaking out from the secluded HOB over the weekend, indicate that back room deals have replaced blessed "conversation". With word, broken by VirtueOnline, that the Anglican Communion is irreversibly compromised, there was scrambling to rescue what looks to be a lost situation.
Read moreHe didn't. The overpowering collegiality, the bonhomie, the quiet solicitation of "your grace", the murmurings in his ear that to include sodomy among the church's pantheon of sexual behaviors would cast him as a "prophetic" figure embracing the new religion of The Episcopal Church leading inevitably and triumphantly to a new reformation akin to Martin Luther, won the day.
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