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By Samuel Pascoe ORANGE PARK, FL — When you're 124 years old, giving birth keeps you young. No one knows the exact date, but sometime in 1880 Grace Episcopal Church was planted as a mission church. Today the church has grown to 1,400 members. This year marks our 124th birthday as a church. Far from slip sliding into old age, we are being made young again by a new birth. September 4 was the 20th anniversary of my ordination. There can be no greater way for me to celebrate that

September 8, 2004 (Ventura, CA) — The Barna Group Recent legislation, lawsuits and public demonstrations over the legality of gay marriage are just one battlefront regarding the institution of marriage. A new study released by The Barna Group, of Ventura, California, shows that the likelihood of married adults getting divorced is identical among born again Christians and those who are not born again. The study also cited attitudinal data showing that most Americans reject the

COMMENTARY September 9, 2004 By David W. Virtue The actions of Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno to inhibit and depose six clergy and then move vigorously to take their parish properties from them, is a scene that we are seeing repeatedly being played out across the country as the revisionist steamroller meets the stone wall of Christian orthodoxy. Of course Bishop Bruno is not the first bishop to thus act and he certainly won't be the last. But he has been the loudest and most vo

Statement in Response to Lawsuits Filed on September 7, 2004, by the Diocese of Los Angeles and Bishop J. Jon Bruno Against St. James, All Saints' and St. David's Anglican Churches By Eric C. Sohlgren Devoid of fairness and compassion, the lawsuits filed by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Bishop J. Jon Bruno on September 7, 2004, attempt to punish St. James, All Saints' and St. David's Anglican Churches, their clergy, and their members for exercising their religious

Bishop O'Neill Says He'll Protect Canterbury Ties Amid Division By Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News September 8, 2004 LOVELAND - Bishop Rob O'Neill assured more than 100 Episcopalians in a packed meeting hall Tuesday that while controversies such as same-sex blessings are part of an "ongoing discussion" in Colorado, he will never allow the diocese to be separated from the Archbishop of Canterbury. "That's a no-brainer," said O'Neill about the Canterbury connection, as he s

By Rowan Williams The Western Mail, Wales September 6, 2004 The slaughter at Beslan was so horrific it was enough to test the faith of the most committed of Christians, Archbishop Rowan Williams said at the weekend. So how should we react to the massacre of the innocents? With a rising death toll, it is now clear that more than 350 people were killed in the Russian town after being held hostage at the school - with scores of children among the dead. The Archbishop of Canterbu

September 8, 2004 The Orange County Register The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles filed lawsuits Tuesday seeking to "secure and protect the church properties" at three local breakaway parishes, including St. James Church in Newport Beach. The suits, filed in both Los Angeles and Orange County, aim to "preserve these churches as houses of worship for faithful Episcopalians as they have been since their founding," Bishop J. Jon Bruno said through his attorney. The parishes, als

By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune 9/6/2004 Molly Hargadine and Roger Booth may have taken different paths, but they arrived at the same point - breaking with the Episcopal Church they loved. Hargadine is a lifelong Episcopalian and nun who lives in church senior housing and does churchwork full-time. Booth is a recent convert who makes video games for a living but has devoted much of his spare time to lay leadership in the church. Both faced a moment of truth when

By Robert Gagnon This is to alert you to some new materials of mine on the Bible and homosexual practice. But first I want to mention a very important vote in the House of Representatives for my American readers: "Hate Crime" Bill. Please call your U.S. Representative and ask him or her to oppose the Kennedy-Smith Hate-Crimes Bill that passed the U.S. Senate earlier this year. The House of Representatives will probably vote on this bill any day now (9/7/04). This bill makes "

By Dennis Prager Townhall.com According to The New York Times, when the terrorists took over the Russian elementary school, they shouted "Allahu akbar" ("Allah is the greatest"). Does this surprise you, dear reader? Does it shock you that the people who deliberately attacked a school and then systematically shot and blew up little children did so in the name of Islam? Unfortunately, the question is rhetorical. Having targeted little children for death, there is no atrocity, n

News Analysis By David W. Virtue The recent disclosure that the Archbishop of Canterbury, in concert with the Bishop of London, to allow the consecration of an English vicar by an African Primate to be a missionary bishop, is precedent setting, and raises more questions than there are answers. The Rev. Sandy Millar, of Holy Trinity, Brompton is a major player in the ALPHA movement and he will become a Ugandan Bishop with responsibility for ALPHA parishes in England and will w

News Analysis by Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI Religious Affairs Editor — Paris, September 10 (UPI) The accelerating number of ever-bloodier outrages committed in the name of Islam has produced a curious transatlantic split over how this religion is to be seen. A plurality of Americans (46 percent) believes that Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence among its believers, according to a new survey released by the Washington-based Pew Forum on Religion and Public

Official Press Release — September 10, 2004 The Lambeth Commission on Communion announced today that it is to publish its report in London on Monday, 18th October 2004, at the beginning of the meeting in London of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates' Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council. The announcement follows the Commission's third plenary meeting, which was held this week (6–10 September) in Saint George's House, Windsor Castle. Archbishop Robin Eames, C

From Church of England Newspaper Liberals have warned that the Church of England would break into "civil war" if the American Church is disciplined for its consecration of the Anglican Communion's first active homosexual bishop. There could be mass resignations amongst clergy who are sympathetic to the action taken by the Episcopal Church of the USA (ECUSA), according to the Dean of Southwark, the Rt Rev Colin Slee. He said that recommendations from the Eames Commission that

September 1, 2004 We write as bishops and theologians within the Anglican Communion to the Lambeth Commission to express our thanks for the important work which you are doing on our behalf as you respond to the current crisis within the Communion. We hold you in our prayers as you work to clarify for us the nature of Anglican discipline and make proposals for a way forward which will maintain among us the highest level of communion. Such communion and godly unity is our desir

ZENIT International News Agency | Pamplona, Spain | September 29, 2004 Science marks a key achievement in human history, says a philosopher who nevertheless warns of an "imperialism" that tries to judge everything through the sciences. Mariano Artigas, a member of Brussels' International Academy of the Philosophy of Sciences and of the Vatican's St. Thomas Pontifical Academy, has just published a book on evolutionism and its relationship with philosophy and religion. Entitled

Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent | The Telegraph | 9/13/2004 The pro-gay leader of the American Anglican Church, who faces discipline for consecrating an actively homosexual bishop, used the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral yesterday to plead for reconciliation. Bishop Frank Griswold, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, admitted that worldwide Anglicanism was torn between those who had a "concern for boundaries" and those who followed the holy spirit wherever it

David W. Virtue DD | Virtuosity "There is no magical way to 'square the circle' and keep all current members of the Communion satisfied, because of the irreconcilability of their views." — Anglican Communion Institute report. Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Lambeth/Eames commission wrapped up its work last Friday on how to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over the consecration of an avowed homosexual to the U.S. episcopacy. They said it would publish its report on Oct.

Jamie Doward and David Smith | Sunday September 12, 2004 | The Observer The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, yesterday marked the third anniversary of the 11 September atrocities by calling on Christians to show more respect to other religions. "It is sad that sometimes an unfaithful or careless Christian way of speaking has led Muslims and Jews to believe that we have a doctrine of God that does not recognise the oneness and sufficiency of God," Williams said in a s