The news came swiftly and decisively. After being told that no action would be taken at the Camp Allen House of Bishops meeting in Texas, and with a complete news blackout in place, the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion woke up on Monday to the news that the Episcopal Church HOB had thumbed its nose at the Primates Communique to be in full accord with the Windsor Report
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3/16/2007
A cartoon in a recent issue of the New Yorker might well be viewed as a metaphor for the Episcopal Church (TEC). Two men are sitting on bar stools. Behind them, the window of the bar is smashed. Seen through the broken glass is a partially destroyed city. One bar fly says to the other: "So far, the collapse of civilization hasn't particularly affected my life style."
Read moreWith these words, Bishop John H. Rodgers nails the heart of the issue and the core of the problem for Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (TEC). Her heart is with the church's revisionist bishops, like Gene Robinson, and formally backed homosexual groups, like Integrity and GLBT, as well as Via Media and a host of smaller heterodox groups arguing for inclusivity and more.
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March 1, 2007
The Anglican Church appears, to the outside world and to many of its own members, to be "obsessed with sex", the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, admitted to the General Synod of the Church of England this past week.
Read moreVOL learned that the draft went through a couple of readings, and when the ABC announced that Archbishop Peter Akinola (Nigeria) had signed off on it, we knew there would be no minority report.
The Windsor Report became the textus receptus (received text) of responsibility and accountability that The Episcopal Church must respond to.
Akinola said that the Primates had given the U.S. Episcopal Church up until nine months to stop blessing same-sex unions.
Read moreNearer the entrance to the hotel, in the tourist section, some twenty-five media - radio, TV, print and Internet writers - are holed up waiting to hear what wisdom might emerge from the Supreme Club of Purple, as they contemplate the future of the Anglican Communion.
It is a waiting game as reporters, commentators, Anglican thinkers, and assorted Bloggers hunker down, waiting for the afternoon briefing.
Read more'We are in a war zone. We are in the battle for the souls of America and Canada. The Rev. Ed Hird's book Battle for the Soul of Canada is very useful on that topic," said Green.
Read moreAPPEASEMENT. That was the word out of the mouth of Canon Kenneth Kearon secretary general of Anglican Consultative Counsel (ACC) in private discussions with the Archbishop of Canterbury and revealed in a private memo to Dr. Louie Crew, the Episcopal Church's emeritus homosexual, last week.
Read moreIs it any wonder then that out of the maelstrom of pluriform thinking and teaching an extraordinary backlash is occurring in The Episcopal Church with fleeing parishes and priests, with some dioceses desiring no longer to stay under the ecclesiastical umbrella of a church that no longer believes the very doctrine they and its bishops swore to uphold.
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1/17/2007