Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop, is complaining mightily about the arrival next week of the most powerful African Anglican on the planet, The Rt. Rev. Peter Akinola, to lay hands on a number of Anglicans in Virginia, saying "it puts a strain on the fragile relations on the Anglican Communion." This is while the TEC has done more than any other Anglican jurisdiction to aggravate and violate the wishes of the greater Anglican Communion.
Read moreThe Task Force concluded that there were two rules for determining church property disputes in the U.S. which are determined under state law rather than federal law - a deference to Hierarchical Authority Rule and Neutral Principles of Law Rule. The latter has been most effective in the State of California where a number of parishes have kept their properties in legal disputes with the Diocese of Los Angeles.
Read moreFirstly, he says Paul's letter to the Romans 1-2 was to critique the self-righteous who judge others, a point that challenges the position of persons today who judge those engaging in homosexual relations.
"It is precisely the same perversity that affects those who have received the revelation of God and persist in self-seeking and self-deceit," he wrote.
Read moreThe cathedral was built in 1969 at a cost of over $2 million and has steadily dropped in value. It is now on the market for $1,275,000, less than half of what it cost to build. The organ and other significant items will be sold separately. According to the Portage city assessor's office, the cathedral would be a good location for a hotel.
Read moreWhen Ihloff heard that Akrofi and a number of other Primates had refused to take Holy Communion with Mrs. Schori, he wrote to the African leader and uninvited him to preach and preside at Eucharist during Holy Week in his diocese.
Read moreThe 1,200 member congregation was informed at Sunday services yesterday.
Pastoral duties are now being provided by the church's Rector Emeritus, the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, and by its Associate Rector, the Rev. Richard Menees.
Anderson told VOL; "I will commute one or two Sundays a month to provide continuity and stability."
Read moreThe priest of the parish is the Rev. Ron Gauss, a converted Jew. This parish along with six other congregations has been on the outs with Smith going back to 2005 when they wrote and informed Smith that while he would be welcome in their parishes it would be inappropriate for him to preach or to preside at the Eucharist.
Read moreIt was the first rude awakening for the young African Christian when police at the airport confiscated his Bible and Prayer Book. Tolerance for his religious beliefs he quickly learned were nil in this strictly Muslim country.
Read more"We are seeing 400 new Anglican churches open each week around the world. In the Province of Nigeria there are more Anglicans in church on Sunday than all the UK, North America and Australasia put together," he told a stunned audience, many of whom live with revisionist Episcopal bishops who no longer have a biblical gospel to proclaim.
Read moreThe bishop's wife and their six children had their home broken into back in February by a gang of people looking for the bishop who had been preaching so vigorously about Jesus and the gospel that she grew afraid for his life. "The bishop was out of town at the time. He was booked for a wedding and could not return," she said.
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