It has been repeatedly stated and most succinctly summarized in the report, 'Road to Lambeth' we face a two fold crisis in the Anglican Communion: a crisis of doctrine and a crisis of leadership, in which the failure of the "Instruments" of the Communion to exercise discipline has called into question the viability of the Anglican Communion as a united Christian body under the common foundation of faith. (See the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral)
Read moreThe term "realignment" has taken on a new meaning, however, over the past few years. It now seems to denote for many the erection of new hierarchical structures among Anglicans, separate from, independent of accountability to, and out of communion with a range of other existing Communion entities and persons. Instead, these structures claim a more local or individualized form of accountability, as in a congregational polity now lifted into an 'episcopal' frame of reference.
Read moreSomehow, though, I suspect that is not what Archbishop Williams would care to emphasize. According to the Times, American foreign policy-its efforts to intervene overseas by "clearing the decks" with a "quick burst of violent action"-has led to "the worst of all worlds". Gee. The worst of all worlds? Worse than one in which the United States had not intervened violently? Worse, for example, than a world presided over by Nazis, Japanese militarists, or Communist thugs?
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Read moreHe said the Canadian Church's interpretation of the Windsor report was the moratorium forbid [sic] any bishop from giving any additional parishes the right to perform same-sex blessings.
In New Westminster, eight parishes were given permission by the diocese, but after the report was released in 2004 no additional parishes were given that authority. Those original eight churches continue to perform the rite.
Read moreFrederic Gugelot, La conversion des intellectuels au Catholicisme en France (1885-1935) (Paris: CNRS Editions, 1998).
I flipped through the book, and a small section grabbed me right away.
I translate, somewhat periphrastically, from pp. 336-339:
L'homosexualite
Read moreHENDERSON: Bishop Harvey has personally shared with me his hurt at being rejected by those he had thought to be friends in the Anglican Church of Canada, when he first became involved in the work of Anglican Essentials Canada. CoGS' formulaic statement of respect therefore rings hollow in my ears.
Read moreIn the world of business, it would be called a hostile takeover. For those who worry about the intentions of Wycliffe Hall, now that it has been claimed in an anti-liberal putsch, there is a lesson here for all those who have ears.
Read moreToo right they do. Especially these days when people turn themselves into human bombs and blow countless innocents to bits in the expectation that they will be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise.
Islamic terrorism and the demented beliefs that fuel it have given all religion a bad name.
Read moreWe begin by asking how can it be robbery for those congregations to retain their property in cases where the congregations have full title to the property, if neither their dioceses nor TEC have ever invested anything in the purchase of the real property of those congregations and in the construction and maintenance of the improvements on the property?
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