GRISWOLD, BELIEFNET AND DISBELIEF

Unspinning ECUSA's Presiding Bishop News Analysis by David W. Virtue

The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church recently bared his soul to an online news service called Beliefnet.net. In it he opines that the denomination's current path is the only way--because it's 'truthful.'

He said, "secrecy is the devil's playground," suggesting that those who want to accommodate homosexuality behind the scenes while publicly condemning it are the ones encouraging "sexual aberrance."

UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Bishop Sends Angry Letter to His Clergy

New AMIA priest invades his diocese By David W. Virtue

The Bishop of Upper South Carolina, the Rt. Rev. Dorsey Henderson, Jr. has sent an angry letter to all his clergy condemning the invasion into his diocese of a former ECUSA priest, now with the Anglican Mission of America.

Congregations' Split is Like Painful Divorce

Episcopalians: There are seemingly irreconcilable differences and disputes over who gets to keep the house By Frank Langfitt, Baltimore Sun Staff January 30, 2004

MELBOURNE, Fla. - When Pat Vander Poest says goodbye to St. John's Episcopal Church, the toughest part will be leaving her daughter, Julie, who died in a car crash two decades ago and whose ashes lie in the shade of a moss-draped oak in the parish's memorial garden.

Ramifications of ECUSA's Actions

January 30, 2004

These are some of the ramifications that have been reported as of the end of December 2003. The fallout is expected to continue in 2004.

Ecumenical

The following Churches have postponed or suspended dialogue with the Episcopal and/or Anglican Church:

• Roman Catholic Church

• Russian Orthodox Church

• Coptic Orthodox Church

• Syrian Orthodox Church

• Armenian Orthodox Church

NORTH DAKOTA: Two Orthodox Priests Deprived of Voting Rights in Diocese

Special Report by David W. Virtue

Two orthodox priests in the Diocese of North Dakota have been stripped of their voting rights in an upcoming election for a new bishop by revisionists seeking to replace the Evangelical Andy Fairfield with a more theologically liberal bishop.

RWANDA: The Anglican Communion Will Never be the Same Again

An interview with the Primate of Rwanda, The Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini By David W. Virtue DESTIN, FL--AMIA CONFERENCE

VIRTUOSITY: Is the "fix" in? Did Frank Griswold ordain Robinson with a "wink and a nod" from the Archbishop of Canterbury?

KOLINI: Here it is out of Griswold's own mouth. "One of the things the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams made very clear to me in our conversation is that he is not authorized to overrule the canons and constitutions of the various provinces of the Anglican Communion."