Chane shared with the national television audience that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all have "holy books and texts" that "are very similar," and "they all focus on the issues of peace and tranquility and brotherhood." He also waxed eloquent: "We share far more in common than we do that divides us. And that which divides us, we can disagree with."
Read moreWillful amnesia, to say the least, is what the quoted views of Barbara Mann, Steve Skardon and others represent concerning what it means to be an Anglican. They have themselves forgotten, or do not wish other Episcopalians to remember, both the Catholic tradition and (in the phrase of the Rev. Dr. Paul Zahl, one-time rector of St. James Church in Charleston) the "Protestant face" of Anglicanism.
Read moreIn recent years our diocesan leadership has voiced opposition to actions of General Convention and the Church's leaders. The Diocese of South Carolina has joined fewer than 10% of all Episcopal dioceses in an alliance, The Anglican Communion Network, that threatens to lead us out of The Episcopal Church. That small group of dioceses includes none of our neighboring southern dioceses.
Read moreLiberal Episcopalians are taking offense that TEC, at long last, is coming under heavy fire for its radical drift of the past several decades. The offense is such that some are thinking the unthinkable -- that "it's time to move on" without the Anglican Communion. More and more are acknowledging that TEC has already, to quote the Windsor Report, "chosen to walk apart". Some are in the throes of denial, but their noisy histrionics are ringing hollow.
Read moreAs Senior Warden Robert Bell said to me just a few days ago, "there is a storm coming. We need to decide whether we shall attempt to weather it or change course. But we can't ignore it."
Read moreIt is wise to consider on the meta level his operational principles of directness in truth-telling. Let us also consider his directness in truth-acting: circumcision decisions on Timothy and Titus are radically different because how those decisions related to Gospel truth at certain places in certain times.
Read moreI attended Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and was ordained deacon and priest by Bishop William F. Creighton of Washington, D.C. As a deacon, I served a curacy at Christ Church, Kensington, Md., and then, as a new priest, I was enticed to go to northeast Montana to take three churches at once.
Read moreJanuary 2003
Dear Archbishop Akinola,
Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Mario Bergner and I am an Anglican Priest serving under the leadership of Bishop Keith Ackerman of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy in Illinois.
Read moreCanon Harris’ recent manifesto (dated January 11) typifies the attitude of quiet resignation emerging from thoughtful circles within TEC. The title of his blog, “Enough: It Is Time to Move On” captures the essence of the moment, and his measured rhetoric models a “new tone” for the public persona of TEC.
Read moreI have chosen to view David Miller's letter of December 17, 2006 as a request to renounce orders in this church. This action was laid before the clerical members of the Standing Committee on December 26 and 27. They concurred with my acceptance of David Miller's Renunciation of Holy Orders. I pronounced and recorded this action in the presence of two priests of this Diocese on December 27, 2006.
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