Where, once upon a time, it was the Network "fundamentalist" bishops, the American Anglican Council and a host of fleeing orthodox priests and their parishes that were being blamed for the church's ills and failure to preach the new doctrine of inclusivity, now the self-identified Windsor bishops are catching it with both barrels.
Read moreSchools are built, children educated and fed, health care is provided, and the parents, mostly illiterate, learn from their children. The "Jesus Film" is shown and slowly it dawns on them that these Christians have come with love and learning, care and comfort in their hearts to tell them the ageless story of Jesus and His transforming love.
Read moreThe Rev. Dr. Stephen Noll, an Episcopal priest, got the call to service away from his comfort zone at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA when he visited the small university in 1999 at the invitation of then Anglican Archbishop Livingstone Nkoyoyo. "I sensed God's call, went back to the U.S. and prayed about it. I consulted with my bishop [Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh], colleagues at Trinity and family, and finally accepted the call."
Read moreArchbishop Benjamin Nzimbi of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) told VOL that he did not totally rule out the possibility that the Africans will have their own Lambeth in 2008, because of the recent actions of the American Episcopal Church's General Convention in Columbus, Ohio and its failure to obey the demands of the Windsor Report.
Read more"Our position since the Lambeth Conference is that The Episcopal Church has gone against Resolution 1:10 and the American Church has failed to respect our institutions and communion," said Mbogo. As a consequence the Kenyan church rejected the UTO of some 5 million shillings ($70,000) earmarked for mission projects to support indigenous mission work involving evangelism and paying clergy for new missionary outreach.
Read moreIn broad terms liberal bishops and groups like The Episcopal Church's Lesbitransgays (LGBT) Integrity community and Via Media, understand mission in socio-political terms with the end result, in the words of Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, "To restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ. God's work, is global in scope and embraces the whole creation." This does not include any mention of The Great Commission as a way to achieve those goals.
Read moreRead the correspondence here:
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/content/sanjoaquin_july06.pdf
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FROM: DIOCESE OF SAN JOAQUIN
July 17, 2006
Via Facsimile (803) 799-5119 and U.S. Mail
The Right Reverend Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr.
Title IV Review Committee
1115 Marion Street
Columbia SC 29201
"While I have not seen the 'charges' filed by the four California Bishops against the Bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin, I cannot imagine that Bishop John-David Schofield could legitimately be found guilty of anything that would qualify for proceeding against him under Canon IV.9. I likewise cannot believe that the House of Bishops would by a majority of "the whole number of Bishops entitled to vote" endorse this charade by consenting it. What will we see next?"
Read more"The Standing Committee wants to express its continued support of the Bishop and its thanksgiving to the Bishop for his many years of service to this Diocese. While we are indeed in a time of transition, we also have every intention of moving forward with the mission and ministry that God has given to this Diocese. The day to day operations will continue. The Diocesan staff has been assured that there will be no major restructuring.
Read more"I hope, as a diocese, that we could make the move, and not just as a parish, and I am encouraging him to move in that direction," he said.
Bishop Lillibridge is not a Network bishop, but he is a Windsor bishop and is solidly committed to the Windsor process and the Windsor Report as well, said Collins.
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