"To add to our reservations about the 2008 Lambeth Conference, we note the huge expense of such an event. Our African churches are asked to divert funds from much needed work of evangelization and charity to a 3-week meeting which has no authority and which is blatantly ignored by "autonomous" member churches. In some cases, poorer provinces are "assisted" by donors from the West who have a deliberate agenda of buying silence from these churches."
Read more"This work is being accomplished through regular regional networking meetings, and by providing assistance in church-planting, leadership development, and legal resourcing, as we face a diminishing Episcopal Church driven by a different concept of mission. We came together for fellowship, instruction, and for mutual support," Loomis told VOL.
Read more"The Episcopal Church (TEC) will probably sue everyone - that is to be expected. Even if TEC can't win consistently on law or on facts, it appears that they will sue anyway, to bankrupt parish churches and perhaps dioceses in legal defense. If a church or diocese can't afford to stay in court, however well they may (or may not) have law or facts on their side, they lose by default," he wrote in the AAC's weekly email message to subscribers.
Read more"We are committed to our mission and we will continue in that mission learning to live as Jesus lived and do what Jesus did. Our mission is still the same...making disciples for Jesus Christ and we are disappointed the Kingdom of God is being hidden behind religious garb. It is the desire of the bishop to really get people off focus, but we need to teach people about the Kingdom of God being available for all through his Son, Jesus."
Read moreIt would be a triumph of the first order for Mrs. Schori, guaranteeing her a place in the pantheon of world heroes to be worshipped and adored, with Nobel prizes for Peace on Earth and goodwill towards gender free, sexually variable men and women for whom there are no limits to personal exploration, presuming, of course that they are, in some sense, committed.
Read moreIn a statement sent to VOL from the orthodox Evangelical diocese, the Standing Committee requests the Archbishop and bishops of Sydney to approach other orthodox bishops of the communion with the purpose of meeting in England at the time of the Lambeth Conference for Christian fellowship and plan a joint action within the Anglican Communion to contend for the faith of the Apostles once delivered to the saints.
Read more"It is now in the hands of the Primates," Ilgenfritz told VirtueOnline. "It could be by one of the African jurisdictions that consecrates me, but nothing has been decided."
Read moreSentamu urged delegates to re-examine "if we aren't being challenged in our application of canon (church) law and gracious magnanimity in relation to the question of human sexuality."
Read moreIts parishioners built the parish; the diocese did not put a penny into its construction. Faithful Episcopalians erected it as a monument to the energy and faith of its people and to the glory of God.
Established by the friars of the Cowley Fathers and staffed for the first 10 years by the good fathers, St. Paul's was one of the oldest and most prestigious catholic parishes in New England. Its most famous rector was Fr. David Matthews an all American golden glove boxer.
Read moreThe election of his successor is scheduled for the end of June.
The staunchly Anglo-Catholic APCK was formed in 1977 following the Affirmation of St. Louis because of fundamental changes by the Episcopal Church at the 1976 Episcopal Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota to accommodate new beliefs and practices i.e. the ordination of women to the priesthood and the adoption of the revisionist 1979 Prayer Book.
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