I am disappointed that you and the Church of the Province of Uganda have chosen to exercise episcopal acts outside the jurisdiction of your Province without collaboration with me, and contrary to my understanding of traditional Anglican principles.
Read moreThe remaining five -- All Souls and Church of the Redeemer in Jacksonville, Grace Church in Orange Park, St. Michael's in Gainesville and St. Luke's Community of Life in Gainesville -- formally ended their relationship with Bishop John Howard's diocese on Dec. 31 or will do so by Sunday, said the Rev. Sam Pascoe, rector at Grace Church.
Pascoe said more parishes are on their way to "disassociating" with the diocese and the denomination.
Read moreJanuary 6, 2006
To the Rector, Wardens, and Vestry of Grace Episcopal Church
Read moreMurphy's recent and familial roots run deep through a Florida landscape that, until November, housed not only his flourishing congregation, but wife and daughter. So deep, he never expected to fully answer a call from the New Bern church looking for his powerful leadership and conservative commitment to teaching scripture. Emmanuel Anglican Church would not be his to lead, he thought.
Read moreAttorney Valerie Munson, who argued the case for St. James, said Tuesday that much of the case was narrowly decided and had implications only for the parish. The court noted that the parish's founding charter of 1846 made clear that it was a part of the diocese and the National Episcopal Church, the predecessor of the Episcopal Church USA.
Read moreHe went on to tell Campbell that human freedom "can never be realized independently of God but only in cooperation with his loving plan for humanity."
Britain's civil partnership law took effect last week.
Civil partnerships give same-sex couples an opportunity to register their relationships and receive most of the same benefits accorded married couples including pension, immigration, and property rights.
Read moreI must object, in the most strenuous terms, to your characterization of Rev. Ashey's decision to resign as a Missioner of the Diocese of Virginia as a renunciation of his holy orders.
I have seen his letter to Bishop Jones. Even those of us for whom English is a second language understand his plain English to mean that he has resigned from the staff of the Diocese of Virginia, but not from his priestly orders.
Read moreThese churches are firm in their commitment to remain part of the world wide Anglican Communion, but due to conscience, find it spiritually necessary to separate themselves from the ECUSA now. The First Wave Churches are All Souls, Church of the Redeemer, both of Jacksonville , Grace Church, Orange Park , St. Michael's, Gainesville , St. Luke's Community of Life, Tallahassee , and Calvary , Jacksonville which realigned with an alternate Anglican jurisdiction on November 6th 2005 .
Read moreMac-Iyalla, who is the Director of Changing Attitude of Nigeria (CAN), a group that claims to be made up of gays and lesbians in the Anglican Communion in Nigeria, has been campaigning for an end to the prejudice against homosexuals in the church.
Lately he has been identified in the country's media as the victimized homosexual who was chased out of the Anglican Church because of his sexual orientation.
Read moreIn a news release issued Dec. 20 , Lee stated that Ashey had renounced his priesthood. Ashey has denied the renunciation, writing in a letter to Lee the that while he had resigned from his position with the Diocese of Virginia, he had not renounced the priesthood.
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