REVISIONISTS RALLY

Concerned about the growth of such ministries at the American Anglican Council, the newly formed Network, The Anglican Communion Institute, Anglican Mainstream and others, a group calling themselves Via Media has been formed in seven dioceses to counter the orthodox threat. They include Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh, Via Media in Albany, Concerned Episcopalians of the St. Lawrence Deanery, Episcopal Forum of South Carolina, Fort Worth Via Media, Remain Episcopal, Diocese of San Joaquin (CA), and Rio Grande Via Media. They are using a variety of tactics to keep the revisionist mindset and spin in ECUSA. If you hear from them, you or see their name you have been warned.

SEMINARY NEWS. Virtuosity has learned that the drop in giving to parishes is impacting the hiring of new graduating seminarians. A source told Virtuosity that a number of seminarians who will be graduating in May, and who had been in conversations with parishes about being hired as curates, are now being told that the parish can't afford to hire them due to cutbacks in giving to the parishes. And who said this would all go away and Robinsons consecration would just be like women’s ordination. How wrong they were. The chickens are coming home to roost.

IN TODAY'S DIGEST you can read an interview Virtuosity did with the Rev. Geoff Chapman, the priest involved in writing a draft of the document that was leaked to the media. You can get the straight scoop on what really took place without all the revisionist spin. I have also written a story about the spin Louie Crew and the Integrity crowd is putting on the new Network Charter. There is more international disapproval of Griswold’s action in consecrating V. Gene Robinson with a statement from the new Archbishop of the Congo, and a Kenyan journalist weighs in on the possibility of international schism. Bishop James Stanton gives us his take on what happened in Plano, Texas and an Anglo-Catholic priest in the Diocese of Colorado issues a challenge to debate the issues with the ECUSA bishop out there.

Episcopalian Theologian Dr Joe Murphy tells us why he has left the ECUSA for the AMIA and columnists Terry Mattingly and Mike McManus are up today with timely columns and is much more. Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion continues to make a major splash with much heated back and forth over alleged anti-Semitism, but when the Pope saw it recently he was heard to say, it is as it is. Forward in Faith leader Fr. David Moyer also takes a look at what is happening in ECUSA

and is off to Lambeth see Rowan Williams to press the case for alternative episcopal oversight.

CORRECTIONS: In a previous digest I said that the AMIA had 50,000 members. That was inaccurate. It is 15,000. I also said the document passed and ratified by All Saints Pawleys Island was taken to Atlanta.  Incorrect. It was taken to Columbia, SC.

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