Background: Theological Assumptions and Recent History Like many people in the Anglican Communion, when I first read the Windsor Report with its recommendation of a covenant and its draft of a possible covenant in an appendix, initially I had strong reservations about the idea of a covenant for the Anglican Communion. These reservations derived both from my legal education and from my training as a New Testament theologian.
Read moreWhat is the agenda behind this paragraph? If the agenda is to continue the dialogue between revisionists and orthodox, the "worldwide study" is another step in the subversion of the Anglican Communion. It is simply the normal revisionist tactic of seeking dialogue while relentlessly advancing their agenda with little or no hindrance. This has been going on for decades and there is no reason to expect it to stop.
Read moreIn the Instrument setting up the Panel, the Archbishop calls upon:
"Each Primate or Moderator of the Communion which has ... a scheme of delegation or extended episcopal oversight to lodge with me a copy of such scheme within 14 days of receiving this document and to notify me within 28 days following any change to such scheme;
Read moreThe response is not surprising. Having published Winter's lengthy (32-page!) attack piece against evangelicals, the Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick and the Office of General Assembly (which puts out Perspectives) were not about to allow a point-by-point refutation of all or any part of Winter's article. This is clear enough in the Stated Clerk's correspondence with the author of the two-part response, Rev. Winfield Casey Jones, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Pearland, Texas.
Read moreThus ideally in one geographical area there ought to be one college of bishops in communion one with another and working together in evangelization and mission, while respecting the boundaries of each one's diocese or ecclesiastical unit.
In fact, when Anglicans think of the Episcopate and defend it to Congregationalists and Presbyterians, they usually claim that its importance and strength derive from the combination of the following considerations:
Read moreHow the Anglican Faith is destroyed by the approval of same gender sexual relations
Why the teaching that the Church should approve of same gender sexual relations prevents unity
What has happened to the Anglican Faith in 30 years
The tremendous success of the proponents of the Church's approval of same gender sexual relations
Without the authority of Scripture, anything goes
Why the defenders of the Anglican Faith are seeking Rowan William's help
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Read moreTruro was founded in 1732, The Falls Church only two years later. They have been part of the Episcopal Church, the Anglican affiliate in the United States, since its founding. In the mid–eighteenth century, George Washington served on the vestry at The Falls Church. Despite these strong ties, the surprise here is not that they have left their ecclesiastical home, but that they stayed so long.
Read more[b]Jim Nantz of CBS Sports: [/b]This is one of those moments, Tony, where there is also social significance in this victory, and to have your hands on the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Tell me what this means to you right now.
Colts coach Tony Dungy