That this year's honorary degree recipients include the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada Michael Peers and the new homoerotic Bishop of New Hampshire V. Gene Robinson. Peers will be the Commencement Speaker. Peers, who recently retired as Primate will, according to the PR puffery bring his special concern to encourage greater inclusiveness in the life of the church and to address major issues facing Canada and the world from a Christian perspective. Get this. He was P

The American Anglican Council says it knows. Here is what they say really happened at the HoB meeting in Navasota, Texas. "The House of Bishops meeting was tightly controlled and "process oriented". The Presiding Bishop stated in his opening address that V. Gene Robinson has borne all the pain over the last several months. The House neither acknowledged nor dealt with the severe level of crisis in the church. The Presiding Bishop's mantra continues to be, "More unites us than

This week it was announced that two Primates, Drexel Gomez (Nassau) and Greg Venables (Southern Cone) have invited the Presiding Bishop and leadership of the US-based Reformed Episcopal Church to a gabfest in Nassau. This is important, because the ECUSA has been trying to rope in the REC with talks of unity, but the REC is now in impaired communion with the ECUSA over the Robinson consecration. In the announcement, Archbishop Gomez said he had been impressed and delighted by

A rift between the only liberal province – Southern Africa – and the rest of Africa was patched over between Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane and Nigerian Primate Peter Akinola. Their statement (included in today's digest) said, "We concluded to work together to strengthen the position of the Church in Africa on the issue of Human Sexuality. We uphold the Lambeth resolution on Human Sexuality as passed at the 1998 Lambeth Conference and subsequent Primates Meetings which categ

Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church Frank T. Griswold has written a letter to Irish Primate Archbishop Robin Eames in an effort to put into perspective what he believes are the central issues facing the Anglican Communion from ECUSA's standpoint as the commission pursues what could be a break-up or a new configuration of the whole communion. As ECUSA heads with gadarene like swiftness towards the cliff's edge, Griswold wrote a letter rather

News Analysis By David W. Virtue The ECUSA Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold wrote to the Lambeth Commission and Irish Primate Robert H. A. Eames this week to explain to him and the Commission the mind of the ECUSA on human sexuality as it faces possible censure from the Primates for its actions in consecrating a known homosexual to the episcopacy. GRISWOLD: Rather than respond to the questionnaire I thought it would be more helpful were I to send to you to share with members o

by ELLEN ROSSINI, Correspondent National Catholic Register WASHINGTON — It has been called the "elephant in the sacristy." In the Catholic clergy abuse scandal, most of the activity was homosexual in nature, and yet this central fact of the abuse has been treated as almost unmentionable in the Church's internal discussions. But now that the abuse picture has been thoroughly studied, the elephant is making a racket. The John Jay study and National Review Board reports released

Commentary By David W. Virtue The Anglican Communion is at a cross roads, some say it is in the process of an international ecclesiastical meltdown. The liberal Western provinces largely dominated by post-modern, pluriform thinking -loose on doctrine and morals; faces a vastly outnumbered Global South Anglicanism that is at once orthodox in faith and morals with a high view of the authority of Holy Scripture. It is an unbridgeable divide. But what is truly tragic is that the

Evangelical Drift Outsiders say we're the status quo. Our call is to prove them wrong. By Charles Colson with Anne Morse 3/29/2004 Have evangelicals come full circle in just 50 years—from fundamentalist isolation to mainstream acceptance? Have we embraced a national creed that values personal growth over doctrinal orthodoxy? Unhappily, one of America's most insightful observers says that's precisely what we've done. Conservative columnist David Brooks of The New York Times ar

"Christianity and Islam" Collison or convergence? Address given by Lord Carey at the Gregorian University March 25th 2004. I would like to begin this lecture by thanking Dr. Eugene McCarthy for the privilege of being a McCarthy Visiting Professor this year at the Gregorian University. I have enjoyed the experience immensely and am grateful to the Dean, Dr. Franco Imoda, for his kindness and Fr.Bill Henn for his considerable helpfulness in so many ways. We have been housed in

Bill could criminalize Scriptures say Bishops Bob Harvey CanWest News Service March 27, 2004 Portions of the Bible are in danger of being condemned as hate literature, say religious groups opposed to changes in the Criminal Code to be debated next week by the Senate. In a letter to Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said Friday that Bill C-250 proposes changes that could lead to the church being prosecuted for its teaching that "sexual

Setting the Record Straight: What Really Happened at the House of Bishops March 26, 2004 THE AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT What Really Happened at the House of Bishops? The House of Bishops meeting was tightly controlled and "process oriented". The Presiding Bishop stated in his opening address that V. Gene Robinson has borne all the pain over the last several months. The House neither acknowledged nor dealt with the severe level of crisis in the chur

The Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Anglican Primate of the Province of the Bahamas and West Indies, and the Most Rev. Gregory Venables, new Archbishop of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, have invited the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Leonard Riches, and the Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America, the Most Rev. Walter Grundorf, to Nassau this week to meet with other primates and bishops of the Anglican Communion who are in b

The Most Rev. Robert H.A. Eames Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Dear Robin: Rather than respond to the questionnaire I thought it would be more helpful were I to send to you to share with members of the Commission a description of some of the workings of the Episcopal Church, pertinent to your deliberations, and also to try to give some sense of how we have come to a point in our life where we find ourselves having given consent to the election and consecratio

News Release 29 March 2004 A meeting took place between the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, Primate of Southern Africa and the Most Revd Peter Akinola, Primate of Nigeria held at Kwa Malusi, 18 Stanley Road, Irene, Pretoria. In attendance were the Rt Revd Dr Jo Seoka, the Bishop of Pretoria and the Rt Revd Dr Peter Adebiyi, the Bishop of Lagos West. The meeting started with a Holy Communion Service presided over by the Rt Revd Dr Jo Seoka of the Diocese of Pretoria who also f

This report first examines the appropriateness of women being ordained as priests (presbyters) or consecrated as bishops in the One Holy and Apostolic Church in and through the Anglican Mission in America as these offices are ordered and exercised in the Anglican Communion. In addition, in a following section, it examines the question of the appropriateness of women being ordained as deacons in the Church through the Anglican Mission in America. The question of this study is

By David W. Virtue 3/29/2004 BIRMINGHAM, AL--The Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham says that the recent HOB statement regarding Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight is unsatisfactory, because it withholds "jurisdiction", and makes a consistent distinction between "jurisdiction" and "pastoral oversight". The Very Rev. Dr. Paul Zahl says that what is needed for the dissenting minority, is a suspension, in love, of business as usual, indeed a suspension,

By Steve Levin Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 3/28/2004 An influential Church of England bishop visiting Pittsburgh this week believes the crisis in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion over gay ordination is related to America's unilateralism. The Rt. Rev. N.T. Wright, bishop of Durham in the Church of England and former canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, said "America has been screwing the world into the socket" for years to reach agreements on land mines, global debt,

By Wolfhart Pannenberg Good News Magazine Can love ever be sinful? The entire tradition of Christian doctrine teaches that there is such a thing as inverted, perverted love. Human beings are created for love, as creatures of the God who is Love. And yet that divine appointment is corrupted whenever people turn away from God or love other things more than God. Jesus said, "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me..." (Matt. 10:37, NRSV). Love for God mus

By HARRY R. WEBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) - Moderate and liberal Episcopalians from dioceses that oppose an openly gay bishop called Saturday for church members to find common ground and tolerate differing viewpoints so the church can remain whole. Episcopalians from 11 conservative dioceses said at the conclusion of a three-day meeting in Atlanta they are trying to move past a debate that has caused divisions in the church. "There is a place for everybody in this churc