http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/24/five-conservative-dioceses-to-leave-tec-archbishop-williams-calls-for-compromise/
[Anglican Mainstream] 24 Sep 2007--American conservative bishops complained that the archbishop refused to see them, or return their calls during his stay. A handful have now left the meeting and are planning to re-gather in Pittsburgh this week to discuss strategy, which is likely to include seeking oversight from an African province. Their leader, Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh, predicted that about five of the US church’s 112 dioceses would seek to affiliate outside the US.
Monday, September 24, 2007
US Bishops almost certain to support a bigger role for gays
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/23/us-bishops-almost-certain-to-support-a-bigger-role-for-gays/
[Anglican Mainstream] 24 Sep 2007--But by the time he headed for the city’s Louis Armstrong International Airport, setting off on a visit to the Anglican community in Lebanon, the archbishop appeared to have accepted that on Tuesday the 159 bishops of the Episcopal Church, as the two-million-strong Anglican congregation is called in the United States, are almost certain to support a bigger role for gays.
[Anglican Mainstream] 24 Sep 2007--But by the time he headed for the city’s Louis Armstrong International Airport, setting off on a visit to the Anglican community in Lebanon, the archbishop appeared to have accepted that on Tuesday the 159 bishops of the Episcopal Church, as the two-million-strong Anglican congregation is called in the United States, are almost certain to support a bigger role for gays.
Analysis: Anglicans Already Breaking Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092300685.html
[The Washington Post] 24 Sep 2007--As Episcopal leaders consider barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism, the world Anglican family is already dying by a thousand cuts.
[The Washington Post] 24 Sep 2007--As Episcopal leaders consider barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism, the world Anglican family is already dying by a thousand cuts.
House of Bishops - Day Four - Sunday
http://ecubishop.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/house-of-bishops-day-four-sunday/
[That We All May Be One] 24 Sep 2007--I presided at the Eucharist and preached at a small mission congregation in the Diocese of Louisiana this morning. Before the liturgy, I led an adult forum with about 15 folks around a table in the parish hall. After an overview of the House of Bishops meeting and a little bit on our ecumenical relations, I opened the floor for their questions.
[That We All May Be One] 24 Sep 2007--I presided at the Eucharist and preached at a small mission congregation in the Diocese of Louisiana this morning. Before the liturgy, I led an adult forum with about 15 folks around a table in the parish hall. After an overview of the House of Bishops meeting and a little bit on our ecumenical relations, I opened the floor for their questions.
US bishops try to find compromise on gay clergy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2175539,00.html
[Guardian Unlimited] 24 Sep 2007--Senior Anglican church officials and American bishops were last night meeting in New Orleans to draft a statement aimed at keeping the US Episcopal Church within the worldwide communion in the face of attacks from conservative church members over the Americans' attempt to remain welcoming towards gays.
Related article:
http://anglicanaction.blogspot.com/2007/09/words-matter-formal-same-sex-blessing.html
Words Matter: "Formal" Same-Sex Blessing "Services"? - Anglican Action
[Guardian Unlimited] 24 Sep 2007--Senior Anglican church officials and American bishops were last night meeting in New Orleans to draft a statement aimed at keeping the US Episcopal Church within the worldwide communion in the face of attacks from conservative church members over the Americans' attempt to remain welcoming towards gays.
Related article:
http://anglicanaction.blogspot.com/2007/09/words-matter-formal-same-sex-blessing.html
Words Matter: "Formal" Same-Sex Blessing "Services"? - Anglican Action
Anti-gay Anglican archbishop speaks in Wheaton
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070923akinola,1,1468160.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
[Chicago Tribune] 24 Sep 2007--In an impassioned Sunday morning sermon to more than 2,000 worshipers at a Wheaton College church, a leading critic of the Episcopal Church's liberal stance on homosexuality spoke against sexual sin, saying unity must come from transformation and obedience to God.
Related article:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/religion/571402,CST-NWS-bishop24.article
'God wants unity' but doesn't get it - Chicago Sun-Times
[Chicago Tribune] 24 Sep 2007--In an impassioned Sunday morning sermon to more than 2,000 worshipers at a Wheaton College church, a leading critic of the Episcopal Church's liberal stance on homosexuality spoke against sexual sin, saying unity must come from transformation and obedience to God.
Related article:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/religion/571402,CST-NWS-bishop24.article
'God wants unity' but doesn't get it - Chicago Sun-Times
After half a lifetime...
http://richardkew.blogspot.com/2007/08/after-half-lifetime.html
[The Kew Continuum] 24 Sep 2007--It is hard to believe that my time here has almost run out and I am in my final days as a resident of these United States. When I board the plane in Nashville on Labor Day to go to my new ministry in Cambridge, England, almost to the day I will have spent half my life on these shores and half my life in the country of my birth. I have lived, worked, and raised children here, and have for nearly a quarter of a century been a Citizen. The challenge of the Cambridge opportunity is a big one, it came as a surprise and in some ways I am surprised to find myself taking it up. Perhaps there is a tad of hubris in accepting something like this that has come my way so late in the game.
[The Kew Continuum] 24 Sep 2007--It is hard to believe that my time here has almost run out and I am in my final days as a resident of these United States. When I board the plane in Nashville on Labor Day to go to my new ministry in Cambridge, England, almost to the day I will have spent half my life on these shores and half my life in the country of my birth. I have lived, worked, and raised children here, and have for nearly a quarter of a century been a Citizen. The challenge of the Cambridge opportunity is a big one, it came as a surprise and in some ways I am surprised to find myself taking it up. Perhaps there is a tad of hubris in accepting something like this that has come my way so late in the game.
Andrew Goddard on New Orleans and the Anglican Communion
http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?ID=234
[Fulcrum] 24 Sep 2007--When we headed this correspondence 'Waiting for Goddards' I never imagined I would leave you waiting six months for a reply and I am really sorry that only now are you getting a response to your letter of 25th March. As you know from personal conversations we've had this is not because of any offence taken or because I thought our correspondence had ended but simply due to other major pressures I've been under. I jotted down notes on your piece almost immediately but never got round to putting them together in a letter. Then I lost them and so I did the exercise again in early summer. I then found the originals but again lacked necessary time and energy to draw things together. I was delighted when you were in touch in early August to ask about starting up the conversation again but sadly I could not get a letter written to you in the few days before going on holiday. A further attempt to get going at the end of August also ran aground as other things took over and so I've decided to start again from scratch.
[Fulcrum] 24 Sep 2007--When we headed this correspondence 'Waiting for Goddards' I never imagined I would leave you waiting six months for a reply and I am really sorry that only now are you getting a response to your letter of 25th March. As you know from personal conversations we've had this is not because of any offence taken or because I thought our correspondence had ended but simply due to other major pressures I've been under. I jotted down notes on your piece almost immediately but never got round to putting them together in a letter. Then I lost them and so I did the exercise again in early summer. I then found the originals but again lacked necessary time and energy to draw things together. I was delighted when you were in touch in early August to ask about starting up the conversation again but sadly I could not get a letter written to you in the few days before going on holiday. A further attempt to get going at the end of August also ran aground as other things took over and so I've decided to start again from scratch.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Anglican Head: No Ultimatum for Episcopal Church
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070922/29411_Anglican_Head:_No_Ultimatum_for_Episcopal_Church.htm
[The Christian Post] 22 Sep 2007--If the Anglican Communion resolves its differences enough to avoid schism, "it will have done something for the entire Christian community,” the top leader of the Anglican Communion told reporters on Friday.
[The Christian Post] 22 Sep 2007--If the Anglican Communion resolves its differences enough to avoid schism, "it will have done something for the entire Christian community,” the top leader of the Anglican Communion told reporters on Friday.
Bishop's Fight Underscores Global Divisions In The Anglican Church
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18840120&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6
[The Philadelphia Bulletin] 22 Sep 2007--Bishop David L. Moyer persists in his ongoing local battle against the relaxation of Church tradition, both inside and outside the courtroom.Moyer, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, expects to begin proceedings in a Montgomery County civil court next month to determine whether his technical removal from the priesthood on Sept. 4, 2002 without a church trial can legally stand. The coming court battle underscores his lifelong toils for the preservation of longstanding Anglo-Catholic tenets.That those tenets merited such a dogged defense first became apparent to Moyer as he began his studies at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., in 1972. Many teachers and students of church doctrine were, to put it mildly, not so doctrinaire.
[The Philadelphia Bulletin] 22 Sep 2007--Bishop David L. Moyer persists in his ongoing local battle against the relaxation of Church tradition, both inside and outside the courtroom.Moyer, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, expects to begin proceedings in a Montgomery County civil court next month to determine whether his technical removal from the priesthood on Sept. 4, 2002 without a church trial can legally stand. The coming court battle underscores his lifelong toils for the preservation of longstanding Anglo-Catholic tenets.That those tenets merited such a dogged defense first became apparent to Moyer as he began his studies at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., in 1972. Many teachers and students of church doctrine were, to put it mildly, not so doctrinaire.
Leading Anglican archbishop to visit Jamaica Oct 5
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20070921T210000-0500_127602_OBS_LEADING_ANGLICAN_ARCHBISHOP_TO_VISIT_JAMAICA_OCT___.asp
[The Jamaica Observer] 22 Sep 2007--The second highest ranking official of the Anglican Communion, Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York and Primate of England, is due in the island on October 5 for a week-long visit with the local church.
[The Jamaica Observer] 22 Sep 2007--The second highest ranking official of the Anglican Communion, Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York and Primate of England, is due in the island on October 5 for a week-long visit with the local church.
Internal bickering leaves Q-C Anglican churches in turmoil
http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=355297
[Quad-Cities Online] 22 Sep 2007--The Rev. Steven McClaskey really didn't want to retire right now from his pastoral post at Trinity Church in Rock Island.
Yet, he also didn't want to risk losing his pension, which advisers and he felt was endangered, by the continued dispute between Episcopal Church leaders and the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The two sides have been at odds since the 2003 consecration of the Rev. Gene Robinson, a non-celibate homosexual, as a New Hampshire bishop. The crisis escalated in 2006 when Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was named as the church's presiding bishop.
[Quad-Cities Online] 22 Sep 2007--The Rev. Steven McClaskey really didn't want to retire right now from his pastoral post at Trinity Church in Rock Island.
Yet, he also didn't want to risk losing his pension, which advisers and he felt was endangered, by the continued dispute between Episcopal Church leaders and the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The two sides have been at odds since the 2003 consecration of the Rev. Gene Robinson, a non-celibate homosexual, as a New Hampshire bishop. The crisis escalated in 2006 when Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was named as the church's presiding bishop.
Video Interview: Bishop Steenson Comments on Yesterday at the HOB Meeting
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6151/
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--Yesterday evening before supper I was able to sit down and chat with Bishop Steenson, Diocese of the Rio Grande. I had never met him, and it was such a pleasure getting to know him a bit better.
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--Yesterday evening before supper I was able to sit down and chat with Bishop Steenson, Diocese of the Rio Grande. I had never met him, and it was such a pleasure getting to know him a bit better.
Jonathan Petre: Archbishop accused of ‘dehumanising gays’
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6146/
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--I can confirm, from two impeccable sources, Mr. Petre's report regarding Gene Robinson. His words were so personal and emotional that the Chair had to remind VGR of the House Rules. Also, VGR was not alone. A number of the leftist ideologues harangued the Archbishop with defiant posturing responses to his words and questions.
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--I can confirm, from two impeccable sources, Mr. Petre's report regarding Gene Robinson. His words were so personal and emotional that the Chair had to remind VGR of the House Rules. Also, VGR was not alone. A number of the leftist ideologues harangued the Archbishop with defiant posturing responses to his words and questions.
“I will be praying for you”—ABC’s closing remarks to the HOB
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6147/
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--Rough quotes, and interpretation from a bishop in the meeting today.
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--Rough quotes, and interpretation from a bishop in the meeting today.
Reviewing Friday’s Meeting with Bishop Stanton: A Few Notes & Analyses
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6158/
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--Throughout the two days, Bishop Stanton noted, Archbishop Williams was very quiet, listening a lot. "The one surprising thing for all the buildup to this meeting was that we actually heard from him very little. I was surprised that there wasn't more direct interchange."
[Stand Firm] 22 Sep 2007--Throughout the two days, Bishop Stanton noted, Archbishop Williams was very quiet, listening a lot. "The one surprising thing for all the buildup to this meeting was that we actually heard from him very little. I was surprised that there wasn't more direct interchange."
Archbishop addresses religious fissure
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-09-21-anglican_N.htm
[USA Today] 22 Sep 2007--Speaking Friday from a mission trip in Ghana, Bishop Martyn Minns, a former Episcopal priest in Fairfax, Va., who now leads a Nigerian-aligned Anglican group in the USA, said he was saddened by the continuing lack of resolution.
"My sense is that the Communion is being reshaped, and that it will someday be expressed in different ways. The U.S. bishops are sincere, but they are sincerely wrong," Minns said.
[USA Today] 22 Sep 2007--Speaking Friday from a mission trip in Ghana, Bishop Martyn Minns, a former Episcopal priest in Fairfax, Va., who now leads a Nigerian-aligned Anglican group in the USA, said he was saddened by the continuing lack of resolution.
"My sense is that the Communion is being reshaped, and that it will someday be expressed in different ways. The U.S. bishops are sincere, but they are sincerely wrong," Minns said.
When is enough enough?
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/22/when-is-enough-enough/
[Anglican Mainstream] 22 Sep 2007--Last week I heard a fascinating programme on Radio 4 which described how the gay agenda had managed to make such remarkable progress in terms of British culture over the past two or so decades. One of the prime vehicles has been the media, and in particular, the gay figure in ’soaps’ and other programmes, as well as iconic gay individuals who have blazed the trail to acceptance, popularity, status and wealth. In its various modes the media has had massive influence in conditioning people’s responses by altering their perceptions of both reality and morality. Their opinions and beliefs have followed their responses and society in turn has been radicalized.
The formula was simple. Gay was a given and exposure to it was modest to begin with. However, it then became increasingly dominant, more sexually explicit and in one’s face. Those implementing these changes wondered when people would complain that ‘enough is enough’. They need not have worried. The passivity of the collective was mind-boggling. Given this relative openness, more gay folk felt free to come out. ‘The sky has not fallen’ (a la Chicken Little) so what is the problem? A subtle cultural shift from defensive to offensive then occured, and legislation has now kicked in to defend and promote gay rights. An entire sea change is occurring. And most Christians and other social conservatives pretend it is not happening. Ignoring this aspect of the culture wars might just make it go away.
[Anglican Mainstream] 22 Sep 2007--Last week I heard a fascinating programme on Radio 4 which described how the gay agenda had managed to make such remarkable progress in terms of British culture over the past two or so decades. One of the prime vehicles has been the media, and in particular, the gay figure in ’soaps’ and other programmes, as well as iconic gay individuals who have blazed the trail to acceptance, popularity, status and wealth. In its various modes the media has had massive influence in conditioning people’s responses by altering their perceptions of both reality and morality. Their opinions and beliefs have followed their responses and society in turn has been radicalized.
The formula was simple. Gay was a given and exposure to it was modest to begin with. However, it then became increasingly dominant, more sexually explicit and in one’s face. Those implementing these changes wondered when people would complain that ‘enough is enough’. They need not have worried. The passivity of the collective was mind-boggling. Given this relative openness, more gay folk felt free to come out. ‘The sky has not fallen’ (a la Chicken Little) so what is the problem? A subtle cultural shift from defensive to offensive then occured, and legislation has now kicked in to defend and promote gay rights. An entire sea change is occurring. And most Christians and other social conservatives pretend it is not happening. Ignoring this aspect of the culture wars might just make it go away.
Ephraim Radner on what a Way Forward Even at this Late Hour Might Look Like
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6165/
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--It is very interesting to see Ephraim's comment this morning as I came across it after I wrote the entry below which came from some praying and thinking and bandying about ideas with some friends last might--KSH.
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--It is very interesting to see Ephraim's comment this morning as I came across it after I wrote the entry below which came from some praying and thinking and bandying about ideas with some friends last might--KSH.
Archbishop holds out hope for compromise
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/22/archbishop_holds_out_hope_for_compromise/
[The Boston Globe] 22 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said yesterday that the breakup of the Anglican Communion would mark an unacceptable "failure" and that he believes compromise is possible between opposing factions over gay rights.
[The Boston Globe] 22 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said yesterday that the breakup of the Anglican Communion would mark an unacceptable "failure" and that he believes compromise is possible between opposing factions over gay rights.
Anglican leader downplays conflict
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1190441227179760.xml&coll=1
[The Times-Picayune] 22 Sep 2007--Archbishop Rowan Williams said talks with U.S. bishops had helped him understand their theological reasons for wishing to sanctify faithful homosexual behavior. But closed-door exchanges between the liberal Americans and a delegation representing some conservative Anglican provinces overseas were often "uncomfortably hard," he said.
[The Times-Picayune] 22 Sep 2007--Archbishop Rowan Williams said talks with U.S. bishops had helped him understand their theological reasons for wishing to sanctify faithful homosexual behavior. But closed-door exchanges between the liberal Americans and a delegation representing some conservative Anglican provinces overseas were often "uncomfortably hard," he said.
Episcopal church calls for civility
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070922/NEWS/709220446/1001
[Home News Tribune] 22 Sep 2007--In calling for civility in the dispute that threatens to cause a split between the worldwide Anglican Church and the the Episcopal Church in the United States, the head of the American church used the Rutgers women's basketball team as an example of how to ease tension.
[Home News Tribune] 22 Sep 2007--In calling for civility in the dispute that threatens to cause a split between the worldwide Anglican Church and the the Episcopal Church in the United States, the head of the American church used the Rutgers women's basketball team as an example of how to ease tension.
TitusOneNine Roundup of Blog commentary—HoB Day 2 —part 1: The reappraisers
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6155/
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--We've now added TWO updates at the end. Please check them out.
Trying to scan the blogs tonight and there is just WAY too much information and commentary out there to begin to try and post a lot of separate entries, or even many excerpts or highlights. What follows is an attempt to capture some of what caught our eye around the blogosphere tonight.
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--We've now added TWO updates at the end. Please check them out.
Trying to scan the blogs tonight and there is just WAY too much information and commentary out there to begin to try and post a lot of separate entries, or even many excerpts or highlights. What follows is an attempt to capture some of what caught our eye around the blogosphere tonight.
Anglicans United Cherie Wetzel’s latest report from New Orleans (#5)
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6150/#more
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--Cherie Wetzel has a wonderfully detailed report out this evening (her 5th dispatch) which contains quite a lot of detail about ++Rowan's interaction with the HoB. We received it by e-mail. Eventually it will be online at Anglicans United. But since it's not yet online, we post it here in full. I found the section about Abp. Aspinall particularly surprising.
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--Cherie Wetzel has a wonderfully detailed report out this evening (her 5th dispatch) which contains quite a lot of detail about ++Rowan's interaction with the HoB. We received it by e-mail. Eventually it will be online at Anglicans United. But since it's not yet online, we post it here in full. I found the section about Abp. Aspinall particularly surprising.
Rewind: +KJS after Tanzania
http://covenant-communion.com/?p=162
[Covenant] 22 Sep 2007--I had opportunity yesterday to go back and re-view our Presiding Bishop’s Q&A at Trinity Wall Street, Feb 28, 2007, moderated by Jan Nunley, and here share a few bits that jumped out at me, not least in light of the current meeting going on in New Orleans. (Note: the transcription is mine—as I couldn’t find it anywhere on the internet—and is incomplete, highlighting a few parts in particular.)
[Covenant] 22 Sep 2007--I had opportunity yesterday to go back and re-view our Presiding Bishop’s Q&A at Trinity Wall Street, Feb 28, 2007, moderated by Jan Nunley, and here share a few bits that jumped out at me, not least in light of the current meeting going on in New Orleans. (Note: the transcription is mine—as I couldn’t find it anywhere on the internet—and is incomplete, highlighting a few parts in particular.)
Anglican Head Downplays Split Over Gays
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6939914,00.html
[Guardian Unlimited] 22 Sep 2007--The archbishop of Canterbury indicated Friday that the Episcopal Church isn't on the brink of losing its place in the world Anglican fellowship, despite the uproar over Episcopal support for gay clergy.
[Guardian Unlimited] 22 Sep 2007--The archbishop of Canterbury indicated Friday that the Episcopal Church isn't on the brink of losing its place in the world Anglican fellowship, despite the uproar over Episcopal support for gay clergy.
Kendall Harmon: What Would a Radical Solution Look Like?
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6164/
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--I believe very strongly that one of the many tragic aspects of this whole Episcopal Church debacle in the last five years is that not only was the decision in 2003 wrong (and the way it was made wrong) but that nearly every major decision made by the TEC leadership since then has made it worse. The hard part about this is that when you keep failing to offer a sufficiently radical solution to a problem, the next time you face it it requires an even more radical solution.
I certainly wish to salute what the Presiding Bishop said in New Orleans: none of us is without blame in this mess. I have been trying to insist on this since General Convention 2003 and then my first address at Plano one: ALL of us are under judgment.
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--I believe very strongly that one of the many tragic aspects of this whole Episcopal Church debacle in the last five years is that not only was the decision in 2003 wrong (and the way it was made wrong) but that nearly every major decision made by the TEC leadership since then has made it worse. The hard part about this is that when you keep failing to offer a sufficiently radical solution to a problem, the next time you face it it requires an even more radical solution.
I certainly wish to salute what the Presiding Bishop said in New Orleans: none of us is without blame in this mess. I have been trying to insist on this since General Convention 2003 and then my first address at Plano one: ALL of us are under judgment.
Andrew Carey: Schism is not the Answer
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6168/#more
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--The next stage of the never-ending Anglican schism comes this week when the Archbishop of Canterbury and other key Anglican leaders fly out to New Orleans to meet with the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops.
Some might say that this is the crucial stage in the crisis given that the Primates at Dar es Salaam named September 30 as the deadline for The Episcopal Church to comply with the Windsor demands for repentance, a moratorium on same-sex blessings and ordinations, and alternative pastoral care for ‘conservatives’ who are estranged from their diocesan bishops.
[TitusOneNine] 22 Sep 2007--The next stage of the never-ending Anglican schism comes this week when the Archbishop of Canterbury and other key Anglican leaders fly out to New Orleans to meet with the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops.
Some might say that this is the crucial stage in the crisis given that the Primates at Dar es Salaam named September 30 as the deadline for The Episcopal Church to comply with the Windsor demands for repentance, a moratorium on same-sex blessings and ordinations, and alternative pastoral care for ‘conservatives’ who are estranged from their diocesan bishops.
Multiple Resolutions Await Bishops on Monday
http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3824
[The Living Church] 22 Sep 2007--At least five “mind of the house” resolutions have been submitted for plenary discussion by the House of Bishops before their meeting concludes Sept. 25. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori had previously requested that all resolutions for consideration be submitted no later than Sept. 20, the meeting’s opening day.
[The Living Church] 22 Sep 2007--At least five “mind of the house” resolutions have been submitted for plenary discussion by the House of Bishops before their meeting concludes Sept. 25. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori had previously requested that all resolutions for consideration be submitted no later than Sept. 20, the meeting’s opening day.
Concluding His Visit, Archbishop Seeks to Lower Expectations
http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3822
[The Living Church] 22 Sep 2007--Concluding his visit with the House of Bishops, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams sought to diminish expectations and the implication that there are consequences for The Episcopal Church for failing to provide the assurances sought by the Anglican Communion’s primates last February.
[The Living Church] 22 Sep 2007--Concluding his visit with the House of Bishops, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams sought to diminish expectations and the implication that there are consequences for The Episcopal Church for failing to provide the assurances sought by the Anglican Communion’s primates last February.
Archbishop Akinola is consulting colleagues about a 'Fourth Trumpet from the South'
http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/comments/archbishop_akinola_is_consulting_colleagues_about_a_fourth_trumpet_from_the/
[GlobalSouth Anglicans] 22 Sep 2007--While Archbishop Rowan Williams affirms no postponement of the Lambeth Conference, Archbishop Akinola is consulting colleagues about a “Fourth Trumpet from the South”.
[GlobalSouth Anglicans] 22 Sep 2007--While Archbishop Rowan Williams affirms no postponement of the Lambeth Conference, Archbishop Akinola is consulting colleagues about a “Fourth Trumpet from the South”.
Address of Archbishop Mouneer Anis to the TEC House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans
http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/comments/archbishop_mouneer_anis_to_tec_hob/
[Global South Anglican] 22 Sep 2007--Thank you so much for inviting me here to come and listen to you and for giving me the opportunity to share my heart with you. I am very aware of my own shortcomings and weaknesses, but every word I want to say is out of love and concern for the unity of the Church of Christ.
I do not come with great authority, nor am I the primate of a province with a great number of Anglicans; I do however, come from a region where Christ walked and where the Church was born. I come representing the Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East.
[Global South Anglican] 22 Sep 2007--Thank you so much for inviting me here to come and listen to you and for giving me the opportunity to share my heart with you. I am very aware of my own shortcomings and weaknesses, but every word I want to say is out of love and concern for the unity of the Church of Christ.
I do not come with great authority, nor am I the primate of a province with a great number of Anglicans; I do however, come from a region where Christ walked and where the Church was born. I come representing the Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Anglican bishop to speak at first service
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=41926&src=2
[Daily Herald] 21 Sep 2007--His churches represent more than a quarter of believers worldwide.
And so his fellow Anglicans will come to Wheaton Sunday to hear the Rev. Peter Akinola, primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, discuss his religious philosophy.
Akinola will serve as guest speaker during the first Midwest Anglican Awakening worship service at Wheaton College's Edman Memorial Chapel. The event will draw members from 20 Anglican churches and aims to celebrate solidarity
[Daily Herald] 21 Sep 2007--His churches represent more than a quarter of believers worldwide.
And so his fellow Anglicans will come to Wheaton Sunday to hear the Rev. Peter Akinola, primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, discuss his religious philosophy.
Akinola will serve as guest speaker during the first Midwest Anglican Awakening worship service at Wheaton College's Edman Memorial Chapel. The event will draw members from 20 Anglican churches and aims to celebrate solidarity
Episcopals reveal little of gay rift talks
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2020450320070921
[Reuters] 21 Sep 2007--Episcopal bishops were tight-lipped on Thursday about meetings with the Archbishop of Canterbury aimed at healing a rift in their church over the ordaining of gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions.
The gay issues are threatening to tear their Worldwide Anglican Communion apart, but there were no reports of progress at the start in New Orleans of a conference of U.S. bishops and delegates from overseas Anglican churches.
[Reuters] 21 Sep 2007--Episcopal bishops were tight-lipped on Thursday about meetings with the Archbishop of Canterbury aimed at healing a rift in their church over the ordaining of gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions.
The gay issues are threatening to tear their Worldwide Anglican Communion apart, but there were no reports of progress at the start in New Orleans of a conference of U.S. bishops and delegates from overseas Anglican churches.
Episcopal gathering could speed split
http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/NEWS06/709210435
[Tennessean.com] 21 Sep 2007--Middle Tennessee's 50 Episcopal churches have a lot at stake this weekend as bishops from across the country gather in New Orleans to discuss the issue of ordaining openly gay priests and blessing same-sex unions.
[Tennessean.com] 21 Sep 2007--Middle Tennessee's 50 Episcopal churches have a lot at stake this weekend as bishops from across the country gather in New Orleans to discuss the issue of ordaining openly gay priests and blessing same-sex unions.
Church defers decision on Covenant
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_headline=church-defers-decision-on-covenant&method=full&objectid=19822306&siteid=50082-name_page.html
[icWales] 21 Sep 2007--Members of the Church in Wales have voted not to approve a draft version of the Anglican Covenant.
Dr Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales said he fears the draft covenant will lead to one voice on controversial issues, such as homosexuality, which members would have to sign up to or leave.
All churches in the Anglican worldwide community are considering the Covenant.
The Church in Wales’ governing body agreed overwhelmingly to note the process of formulating a covenant at a meeting at the University of Wales Lampeter.
And the body invited the Welsh bishops to finalise a response for the Covenant Design Group by the end of the year.
[icWales] 21 Sep 2007--Members of the Church in Wales have voted not to approve a draft version of the Anglican Covenant.
Dr Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales said he fears the draft covenant will lead to one voice on controversial issues, such as homosexuality, which members would have to sign up to or leave.
All churches in the Anglican worldwide community are considering the Covenant.
The Church in Wales’ governing body agreed overwhelmingly to note the process of formulating a covenant at a meeting at the University of Wales Lampeter.
And the body invited the Welsh bishops to finalise a response for the Covenant Design Group by the end of the year.
U.S. bishops challenge Archbishop of Canterbury on first day of meetings
http://www.anglicanjournal.com/100/article/us-bishops-challenge-archbishop-of-canterbury-on-first-day-of-meetings/
[Anglican Journal] 21 Sep 2007--The first day of meetings between the Archbishop of Canterbury and U.S. Episcopal bishops featured table discussions of the controversy over sexuality roiling the Anglican world and the occasional pointed criticism of Rowan Williams.
[Anglican Journal] 21 Sep 2007--The first day of meetings between the Archbishop of Canterbury and U.S. Episcopal bishops featured table discussions of the controversy over sexuality roiling the Anglican world and the occasional pointed criticism of Rowan Williams.
Meeting Held on Anglican-Episcopal Split
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jXQ9QkVQDrMGH03jTaq9Yxu5F0Bw
[Associated Press] 21 Sep 2007--Canon James Rosenthal, a spokesman for Williams, said that in the first few hours of the meeting alone, about 25 of the more than 100 participating bishops had a chance to discuss their concerns directly with the archbishop.
Williams, 57, was enthroned as archbishop of Canterbury in 2003 with a record of some support for gay priests. But as leader of the entire communion, he has operated with the understanding that most Anglicans believe the Bible bars gay relationships.
He recently told Time magazine he found it "bizarre and puzzling" that Episcopalians consecrated a bishop who is "living in a relationship not theologically officially approved by the church."
Bizarre and puzzling is an understatement!
[Associated Press] 21 Sep 2007--Canon James Rosenthal, a spokesman for Williams, said that in the first few hours of the meeting alone, about 25 of the more than 100 participating bishops had a chance to discuss their concerns directly with the archbishop.
Williams, 57, was enthroned as archbishop of Canterbury in 2003 with a record of some support for gay priests. But as leader of the entire communion, he has operated with the understanding that most Anglicans believe the Bible bars gay relationships.
He recently told Time magazine he found it "bizarre and puzzling" that Episcopalians consecrated a bishop who is "living in a relationship not theologically officially approved by the church."
Bizarre and puzzling is an understatement!
Resolution Offered by Windsor Bishops (+Jenkins Resolution)
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6123/
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--This is a statement crafted during the last meeting of "Windsor Bishops," and we're told forms the basis of the resolution Bishop Jenkins is going to propose. However, we've also been told that he's been "consulting" with bishops Bruno and Chane to make it more palatable to them. The document has been circulating among the bishops at the meeting here in New Orleans.
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--This is a statement crafted during the last meeting of "Windsor Bishops," and we're told forms the basis of the resolution Bishop Jenkins is going to propose. However, we've also been told that he's been "consulting" with bishops Bruno and Chane to make it more palatable to them. The document has been circulating among the bishops at the meeting here in New Orleans.
Memorandum: Review of the Constitutional Crisis 2007 (the Bishops’ Report)
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6115/
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--I have had an opportunity to do a single, but relatively close reading of this paper by Bishop Tennis and others. This paper was developed for presentation at your upcoming ROB meeting and may be influential in how the ROB frames its response to the Communiqué. The approach taken is described as a theological analysis, but one undertaken with a legal background and methodology. It purports to offer a context and way of thinking about the conflict without an explicit solution. Indeed, it seems to suggest that the conflict can only be resolved by patience over a long period of time, discussion, and study without a specific set of criteria or direction. To date, the writers argue the issues have been misframed, setting up the impossibility of resolution. Their report seeks to identify and properly state the real issues.
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--I have had an opportunity to do a single, but relatively close reading of this paper by Bishop Tennis and others. This paper was developed for presentation at your upcoming ROB meeting and may be influential in how the ROB frames its response to the Communiqué. The approach taken is described as a theological analysis, but one undertaken with a legal background and methodology. It purports to offer a context and way of thinking about the conflict without an explicit solution. Indeed, it seems to suggest that the conflict can only be resolved by patience over a long period of time, discussion, and study without a specific set of criteria or direction. To date, the writers argue the issues have been misframed, setting up the impossibility of resolution. Their report seeks to identify and properly state the real issues.
Resolution offered by Bruce MacPherson, Russell Jacobus, Geralyn Wolf, and C. Franklin Brookhart
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6119/
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--In accordance with our Lord’s High Priestly prayer that we he one and in the spirit of resolution Al59 of the 75 General Convention1: and in obedience to his great commission to go into all the world and make disciples: and in gratitude for the gift of Anglican Communion as a sign of the Holy Spirit’s ongoing work of reconciliation throughout the world, we offer the fbllowing resolutions with the hope of “mending the tear in the fabric” of our common life in Christ in the Anglican Communion.
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--In accordance with our Lord’s High Priestly prayer that we he one and in the spirit of resolution Al59 of the 75 General Convention1: and in obedience to his great commission to go into all the world and make disciples: and in gratitude for the gift of Anglican Communion as a sign of the Holy Spirit’s ongoing work of reconciliation throughout the world, we offer the fbllowing resolutions with the hope of “mending the tear in the fabric” of our common life in Christ in the Anglican Communion.
Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori’s Offer of a Failed DEPO Plan, Only This Time to Bishops
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6108/
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--What on earth is this? An offer of a tragically failed plan for clergy trapped in dioceses with bishops who were not going to use such a plan anyway [which was why the clergy actually needed the relief that DEPO left in the hands of the bishops from whom the clergy needed relief], only the plan is for bishops to receive "pastoral oversight" by other bishops when in fact they need no such thing, but rather need the detailed request that they themselves made, and which the Primates accounted for in their communique?
[Stand Firm] 21 Sep 2007--What on earth is this? An offer of a tragically failed plan for clergy trapped in dioceses with bishops who were not going to use such a plan anyway [which was why the clergy actually needed the relief that DEPO left in the hands of the bishops from whom the clergy needed relief], only the plan is for bishops to receive "pastoral oversight" by other bishops when in fact they need no such thing, but rather need the detailed request that they themselves made, and which the Primates accounted for in their communique?
Anglican Leader Urges Church To Find Accord Amid Turmoil
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092002549_pf.html
[The Washington Post] 21 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, made a rare visit yesterday to a meeting of Episcopal bishops to urge them to compromise in the face of international pressure over their approval of same-sex unions and gay clergy.
The appearance of Archbishop Rowan Williams yesterday and today in New Orleans at the biannual bishops' meeting of the Episcopal Church, the Communion's U.S. branch, underscores the gravity of the confrontation between worldwide Anglican leaders and bishops. The bishops are discussing "requests" the leaders made in February that the U.S. church backtrack from its increasing acceptance of gays and lesbians. A response was requested by Sept. 30.
The meeting began yesterday and ends Tuesday.
[The Washington Post] 21 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, made a rare visit yesterday to a meeting of Episcopal bishops to urge them to compromise in the face of international pressure over their approval of same-sex unions and gay clergy.
The appearance of Archbishop Rowan Williams yesterday and today in New Orleans at the biannual bishops' meeting of the Episcopal Church, the Communion's U.S. branch, underscores the gravity of the confrontation between worldwide Anglican leaders and bishops. The bishops are discussing "requests" the leaders made in February that the U.S. church backtrack from its increasing acceptance of gays and lesbians. A response was requested by Sept. 30.
The meeting began yesterday and ends Tuesday.
Four docs over at Stand Firm (Updated with excerpts)
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6109/
[TitusOneNine] 21 Sep 2007--Stand Firm has four documents posted. Three are suggestions by various Bishops as to what should be said in a "Mind of the House" resolution. The fourth is a memo from Peter Lee. We've posted some excerpts below, but if you can read them all at Stand Firm, please do so.
[TitusOneNine] 21 Sep 2007--Stand Firm has four documents posted. Three are suggestions by various Bishops as to what should be said in a "Mind of the House" resolution. The fourth is a memo from Peter Lee. We've posted some excerpts below, but if you can read them all at Stand Firm, please do so.
Episcopal bishops, archbishop seek a middle ground
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/21/episcopal_bishops_archbishop_seek_a_middle_ground/
[The Boston Globe] 21 Sep 2007--Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in a last-ditch effort to avoid a schism in the global Anglican Communion, spent seven hours yesterday holed up in a posh New Orleans hotel with most of the nation's Episcopal bishops, many of whom tried to persuade him that it is a mistake to define the American church solely by its decision four years ago to approve an openly gay priest as bishop of New Hampshire.
[The Boston Globe] 21 Sep 2007--Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in a last-ditch effort to avoid a schism in the global Anglican Communion, spent seven hours yesterday holed up in a posh New Orleans hotel with most of the nation's Episcopal bishops, many of whom tried to persuade him that it is a mistake to define the American church solely by its decision four years ago to approve an openly gay priest as bishop of New Hampshire.
INTERVIEW: Bishop John Guernsey
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview.html
[Religion & Ethics News Weekl;y] 21 Sep 2007--Read more of the R & E interview with the Rev. John Guernsey, Bishop for Congregations in America for the Church of Uganda
Related articles:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview3.html
Interview: John Chane - Religion & Ethics News Weekly
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview4.html
Interview : Katherine Jefferts Schori - Religion & Ethics News Weekly
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview2.html
Interview: Charles Jenkins - Religion & Ethics News Weekly
[Religion & Ethics News Weekl;y] 21 Sep 2007--Read more of the R & E interview with the Rev. John Guernsey, Bishop for Congregations in America for the Church of Uganda
Related articles:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview3.html
Interview: John Chane - Religion & Ethics News Weekly
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview4.html
Interview : Katherine Jefferts Schori - Religion & Ethics News Weekly
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1103/interview2.html
Interview: Charles Jenkins - Religion & Ethics News Weekly
House of Bishops sessions reflect 'passionate commitment' to Anglican Communion
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90210_ENG_HTM.htm
[Episcopal Life Online] 21 Sep 2007--Bishops meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in New Orleans on September 20 characterized their conversations with the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion as reflective of a "passionate commitment" to the future of that communion.
Bishop Robert O'Neill of Colorado told reporters after a nearly seven-hour session with Williams that the "best way to characterize our conversation is to say that collectively as a House of Bishops who exercise oversight for the common life and ministry of each of our dioceses, we take our responsibilities and our ministries very seriously. We're passionate about the work that we all do both individually and collectively.
[Episcopal Life Online] 21 Sep 2007--Bishops meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in New Orleans on September 20 characterized their conversations with the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion as reflective of a "passionate commitment" to the future of that communion.
Bishop Robert O'Neill of Colorado told reporters after a nearly seven-hour session with Williams that the "best way to characterize our conversation is to say that collectively as a House of Bishops who exercise oversight for the common life and ministry of each of our dioceses, we take our responsibilities and our ministries very seriously. We're passionate about the work that we all do both individually and collectively.
Day 1
http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/press_conference_coming_up.html
[Episcopal Cafe] 21 Sep 2007--Not a lot to report from our friends who were in the room. At House of Bishops meetings, the bishops all sit at assigned tables with colleagues whom they have sat with at previous meetings. At tables this morning they were asked what were their greatest hopes and greatest fears for the meeting. Each table answered these questions and reported back to the meeting.
[Episcopal Cafe] 21 Sep 2007--Not a lot to report from our friends who were in the room. At House of Bishops meetings, the bishops all sit at assigned tables with colleagues whom they have sat with at previous meetings. At tables this morning they were asked what were their greatest hopes and greatest fears for the meeting. Each table answered these questions and reported back to the meeting.
Pro-gay agenda pushes Church closer to schism
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2500491.ece
[Times Online] 21 Sep 2007--The most powerful leader of evangelical Anglicans worldwide has issued a last-minute plea to the US Episcopal bishops over their pro-gay liberal agenda, to save the Church from schism.
The Archbishop and Primate of Nigeria, Dr Peter Akinola, was speaking to The Times as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, met US bishops in New Orleans in a last-ditch attempt to avert a split.
Dr Akinola, who heads the Global South group of Anglican provinces from Asia, Africa and Latin America, said the Anglican Church worldwide was in a state of “broken communion”.
[Times Online] 21 Sep 2007--The most powerful leader of evangelical Anglicans worldwide has issued a last-minute plea to the US Episcopal bishops over their pro-gay liberal agenda, to save the Church from schism.
The Archbishop and Primate of Nigeria, Dr Peter Akinola, was speaking to The Times as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, met US bishops in New Orleans in a last-ditch attempt to avert a split.
Dr Akinola, who heads the Global South group of Anglican provinces from Asia, Africa and Latin America, said the Anglican Church worldwide was in a state of “broken communion”.
Free booklet offer
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/21/free-booklet-offer/
[Anglican Mainstream] 21 Sep 2007--I recently picked up a copy of ‘The Handwriting on the Wall’ by the Episcopalian academic, Stephen Noll, from Trinity Episcopalian School of Ministry, now vice-chancellor of Uganda Christian University. Though this modest little book was published in 1998 - and accurately depicts the American situation of almost a decade ago now - parts of it sound as if they were written only yesterday. In fact, I found the window onto the 98 scene in the US all the more fascinating because of this double effect: echoes from the present kept coming to my mind as I read Stephen’s description of the state of affairs in the 90s.
[Anglican Mainstream] 21 Sep 2007--I recently picked up a copy of ‘The Handwriting on the Wall’ by the Episcopalian academic, Stephen Noll, from Trinity Episcopalian School of Ministry, now vice-chancellor of Uganda Christian University. Though this modest little book was published in 1998 - and accurately depicts the American situation of almost a decade ago now - parts of it sound as if they were written only yesterday. In fact, I found the window onto the 98 scene in the US all the more fascinating because of this double effect: echoes from the present kept coming to my mind as I read Stephen’s description of the state of affairs in the 90s.
Eight bishops agree to serve as Episcopal Visitors
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/21/eight-bishops-agree-to-serve-as-episcopal-visitors/
[Anglican Mainstream] 21 Sep 2007--The Living Church reports that eight bishops have accepted an invitation to serve as episcopal visitors consistent with Delegated Pastoral Oversight (DEPO), an initiative approved by the House of Bishops in 2004.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was expected to announce the development during the opening plenary session of the House of Bishops’ meeting Sept. 20-25 in New Orleans, according to the Rev. Canon Charles Robertson, canon to the Presiding Bishop.
Related article:
http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3821
Details Sketchy on Episcopal Visitor Proposal - The Living Church
[Anglican Mainstream] 21 Sep 2007--The Living Church reports that eight bishops have accepted an invitation to serve as episcopal visitors consistent with Delegated Pastoral Oversight (DEPO), an initiative approved by the House of Bishops in 2004.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was expected to announce the development during the opening plenary session of the House of Bishops’ meeting Sept. 20-25 in New Orleans, according to the Rev. Canon Charles Robertson, canon to the Presiding Bishop.
Related article:
http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3821
Details Sketchy on Episcopal Visitor Proposal - The Living Church
Thoughts on the Anglican Communion at the very edge of the Precipice
http://www.anviljournal.co.uk/Editorials/24_1.htm
[Anvil] 21 Sep 2007--Once again, it appears, the Anglican Communion has reached the very edge of the precipice only to slam on the brakes just in time and move back (at least a little) onto safer ground. It seems, however, only a matter of time before renewed conflict over who should drive and in what direction will lead us all to peer over the cliff again - probably sometime in September or October given the deadline given to the American church by the Primates at Tanzania .
More positively, what is becoming clear, in and through the difficulties of recent years, is that the Communion is, painfully and precariously, embracing and seeking to deepen a renewed pattern of interdependent life together in communion and mission that is faithful to Scripture and to our Anglican heritage. The recent Primates' meeting, and particularly the work on a Communion covenant, mark major steps in these developments. It is therefore important to understand their significance and also the nature of recent conflicts.
The presenting issue is clearly differences over homosexuality and in particular the truthfulness of the 1998 Lambeth Resolution I.10 and its status within the life of the Communion as a whole. For many Anglicans, particularly evangelical Anglicans, this amounts - given the wording of part of that resolution ('rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture') and their own convictions as to Scripture's clarity and plain sense on this subject - to a fundamental question about the authority of the Bible. It has, however, become increasingly clear that interacting with this question is disagreement over an ecclesiological question about the nature of life in communion. The focus of this disagreement is the inter-relationships that autonomous provinces have with each other and with the Anglican Communion as a whole through the various Instruments of Communion, although a subsidiary question is how the Communion responds to a province where internal relationships of communion become severely impaired or broken. The 2004 Windsor Report from the Lambeth Commission on Communion is here the key text (equivalent to Lambeth I.10 in relation to sexuality), and disagreements over this also threaten division among Anglicans.
[Anvil] 21 Sep 2007--Once again, it appears, the Anglican Communion has reached the very edge of the precipice only to slam on the brakes just in time and move back (at least a little) onto safer ground. It seems, however, only a matter of time before renewed conflict over who should drive and in what direction will lead us all to peer over the cliff again - probably sometime in September or October given the deadline given to the American church by the Primates at Tanzania .
More positively, what is becoming clear, in and through the difficulties of recent years, is that the Communion is, painfully and precariously, embracing and seeking to deepen a renewed pattern of interdependent life together in communion and mission that is faithful to Scripture and to our Anglican heritage. The recent Primates' meeting, and particularly the work on a Communion covenant, mark major steps in these developments. It is therefore important to understand their significance and also the nature of recent conflicts.
The presenting issue is clearly differences over homosexuality and in particular the truthfulness of the 1998 Lambeth Resolution I.10 and its status within the life of the Communion as a whole. For many Anglicans, particularly evangelical Anglicans, this amounts - given the wording of part of that resolution ('rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture') and their own convictions as to Scripture's clarity and plain sense on this subject - to a fundamental question about the authority of the Bible. It has, however, become increasingly clear that interacting with this question is disagreement over an ecclesiological question about the nature of life in communion. The focus of this disagreement is the inter-relationships that autonomous provinces have with each other and with the Anglican Communion as a whole through the various Instruments of Communion, although a subsidiary question is how the Communion responds to a province where internal relationships of communion become severely impaired or broken. The 2004 Windsor Report from the Lambeth Commission on Communion is here the key text (equivalent to Lambeth I.10 in relation to sexuality), and disagreements over this also threaten division among Anglicans.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Archbishops to Include Gays in Inclusive Stand at Manchester Cat
http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/Sept/2001.htm
[UK Gay News] 20 Sep 2007--Archbishops are to speak at Manchester Cathedral, calling for the Church of England to be inclusive.
The Archbishop of Mexico and the leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church are taking part in a conference Celebrating Anglican Diversity, which will celebrate the long tradition of a diverse Church that welcomes all people. It is being held on September 29.
[UK Gay News] 20 Sep 2007--Archbishops are to speak at Manchester Cathedral, calling for the Church of England to be inclusive.
The Archbishop of Mexico and the leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church are taking part in a conference Celebrating Anglican Diversity, which will celebrate the long tradition of a diverse Church that welcomes all people. It is being held on September 29.
House of Bishops meeting set to open
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90171_ENG_HTM.htm
[Episcopal Life Online] 20 Sep 2007--Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has assured Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that he will be received September 20 and 21 by the House of Bishops "with great respect and hospitality."
[Episcopal Life Online] 20 Sep 2007--Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has assured Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that he will be received September 20 and 21 by the House of Bishops "with great respect and hospitality."
Williams putting earthly position ahead of moral principle on gay issue, campaigner says
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5731
[ekklesia] 20 Sep 2007--The UK human rights campaigner and propsective Green Party parliamentary candidate Peter Tatchell has reacted strongly to news that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will seek to persuade US Anglican bishops to backtrack on gay inclusion and equality.
[ekklesia] 20 Sep 2007--The UK human rights campaigner and propsective Green Party parliamentary candidate Peter Tatchell has reacted strongly to news that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will seek to persuade US Anglican bishops to backtrack on gay inclusion and equality.
The Rev. John Guernsey, rector of a church in a middle-class Virginia suburb, stood early this month before thousands of Africans here on a rickety, r
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6722
[Virtue Online] 20 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, personally met with America's Episcopal Bishops this week in a last ditch effort to keep the Episcopal Church in the worldwide Anglican Communion. While the results are not known at this writing, the odds look grim.
[Virtue Online] 20 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, personally met with America's Episcopal Bishops this week in a last ditch effort to keep the Episcopal Church in the worldwide Anglican Communion. While the results are not known at this writing, the odds look grim.
Episcopal Church Dissidents Seek Authority Overseas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119023295621032668.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
[The Wall Street Journal Online] 20 Sep 2007--The Rev. John Guernsey, rector of a church in a middle-class Virginia suburb, stood early this month before thousands of Africans here on a rickety, ribbon-bedecked podium. Clutching a wooden staff in his left hand, he shouted in Runyankole, a local tribal language: "Mukama Asimwe!" -- Praise the Lord!
Mr. Guernsey, 54 years old, had reason to rejoice. A defector from America's Episcopal Church, he had just been made a bishop -- by the Church of Uganda.
[The Wall Street Journal Online] 20 Sep 2007--The Rev. John Guernsey, rector of a church in a middle-class Virginia suburb, stood early this month before thousands of Africans here on a rickety, ribbon-bedecked podium. Clutching a wooden staff in his left hand, he shouted in Runyankole, a local tribal language: "Mukama Asimwe!" -- Praise the Lord!
Mr. Guernsey, 54 years old, had reason to rejoice. A defector from America's Episcopal Church, he had just been made a bishop -- by the Church of Uganda.
Episcopal Bishop Joins Meetings
http://www.theledger.com/article/20070920/NEWS/709200512/1039
[The Ledger] 20 Sep 2007--Episcopal Bishop John Howe is under no illusions about the potential tumult that lies ahead for his diocese and his denomination.
"I think a lot is going to happen in the next few months," he said earlier this week by phone from Orlando.
[The Ledger] 20 Sep 2007--Episcopal Bishop John Howe is under no illusions about the potential tumult that lies ahead for his diocese and his denomination.
"I think a lot is going to happen in the next few months," he said earlier this week by phone from Orlando.
Bishop of Arkansas: Throw Conservative Episcopal Survey in the Trash
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6055/
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--Tolerance... inclusion... dialogue....
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--Tolerance... inclusion... dialogue....
Bishop of Louisiana Charles Jenkins to Offer Resolution?
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6046/
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--Aaaaaand..... right out of the gate as we begin our special report from New Orleans: Fresh, fresh hell from the rumor mill:
The Times-Picayune is reporting....
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--Aaaaaand..... right out of the gate as we begin our special report from New Orleans: Fresh, fresh hell from the rumor mill:
The Times-Picayune is reporting....
A Look Back: Bishop FitzSimons Allison’s Overview
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6056/
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--Edmond Browning was elected Presiding Bishop in 1985 and in his first speech declared his views concerning an inclusive policy toward homosexuality. Seven bishops, all personal friends, asked to confer with him and told him that, whereas they respect his conscientious views as expressed in the minority group at Denver, if he attempted to use his office to further the homosexual agenda he would tear the fabric of the church. His response was that he simply disagreed with the view of the seven bishops.
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--Edmond Browning was elected Presiding Bishop in 1985 and in his first speech declared his views concerning an inclusive policy toward homosexuality. Seven bishops, all personal friends, asked to confer with him and told him that, whereas they respect his conscientious views as expressed in the minority group at Denver, if he attempted to use his office to further the homosexual agenda he would tear the fabric of the church. His response was that he simply disagreed with the view of the seven bishops.
Correspondence from New Orleans: Sitting in a Bar
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6051/
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--There are, as some of you know, several proposals being floated at this point; some of them remain more rumor at this point than confirmed fact.
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--There are, as some of you know, several proposals being floated at this point; some of them remain more rumor at this point than confirmed fact.
Ripe for Compromise: Correspondence from New Orleans
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6045/
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--The heirarchs at 815, from all that I have read in the weeks leading up to this meeting, see an opportunity in Canterbury's participation and support of the failed Sub-Group report. They will couch any compromise plan they offer in terms that recall the findings of that report. The strategy, I think, will be to win Canterbury's approval and that of the Primates' Standing Committee for some sort of interim proposal, replacing Dar, that permits the status quo to continue at least until the Covenant is finalized.
[Stand Firm] 20 Sep 2007--The heirarchs at 815, from all that I have read in the weeks leading up to this meeting, see an opportunity in Canterbury's participation and support of the failed Sub-Group report. They will couch any compromise plan they offer in terms that recall the findings of that report. The strategy, I think, will be to win Canterbury's approval and that of the Primates' Standing Committee for some sort of interim proposal, replacing Dar, that permits the status quo to continue at least until the Covenant is finalized.
Row over Archbishop’s Communion Service with active gay priests
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/20/row-over-archbishops-communion-service-with-active-gay-priests/
[Anglican Mainstream] 20 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to hold a secret Communion service in London with members of a support group for gay clergy, it was revealed this week. The Eucharist, organised by the Clergy Consultation organisation, will take place on November 29 at St Peter’s Church in Eaton Square, followed by an address by the Archbishop on the subject of gay involvement in the Church.The details of the address and subsequent discussion are to remain off the record as the meeting will take place under the confidential ‘Chatham House Rules’, which the group hope will lead to ‘honest and open dialogue’ with the Archbishop.
[Anglican Mainstream] 20 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to hold a secret Communion service in London with members of a support group for gay clergy, it was revealed this week. The Eucharist, organised by the Clergy Consultation organisation, will take place on November 29 at St Peter’s Church in Eaton Square, followed by an address by the Archbishop on the subject of gay involvement in the Church.The details of the address and subsequent discussion are to remain off the record as the meeting will take place under the confidential ‘Chatham House Rules’, which the group hope will lead to ‘honest and open dialogue’ with the Archbishop.
Anglican gay-bishop stance is put to the test in Chicago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-episcopal_20sep20,0,1361640,print.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
[Chicago Tribune] 20 Sep 2007--As Episcopal bishops begin historic talks with their spiritual leader Thursday on whether the worldwide Anglican Church can overcome differences about homosexuality, many point to Chicago as proof that minds are already made up.
Though Anglican leaders have urged the U.S. church to stop electing gay bishops who are in committed relationships, a lesbian priest is among five finalists for bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Meanwhile, dissidents in the diocese will turn out Sunday in suburban Wheaton to hear Archbishop Peter Akinola, conservative leader of Nigeria's Anglican Church and the fiercest critic of the Episcopal Church's stance on gays.
[Chicago Tribune] 20 Sep 2007--As Episcopal bishops begin historic talks with their spiritual leader Thursday on whether the worldwide Anglican Church can overcome differences about homosexuality, many point to Chicago as proof that minds are already made up.
Though Anglican leaders have urged the U.S. church to stop electing gay bishops who are in committed relationships, a lesbian priest is among five finalists for bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Meanwhile, dissidents in the diocese will turn out Sunday in suburban Wheaton to hear Archbishop Peter Akinola, conservative leader of Nigeria's Anglican Church and the fiercest critic of the Episcopal Church's stance on gays.
Episcopal bishops meet to discuss future
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-episcopal20sep20,1,7487547.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true
[Los Angelos Times] 20 Sep 2007--Since 2003, when the Episcopal Church consecrated a partnered gay man as bishop of New Hampshire, there have been growing fears of a formal split within the U.S. church, or between it and the rest of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Now, as bishops of the Episcopal Church begin a crucial meeting in New Orleans today, concern about the future of the church and its place within the global Anglican fellowship is at center stage.
[Los Angelos Times] 20 Sep 2007--Since 2003, when the Episcopal Church consecrated a partnered gay man as bishop of New Hampshire, there have been growing fears of a formal split within the U.S. church, or between it and the rest of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Now, as bishops of the Episcopal Church begin a crucial meeting in New Orleans today, concern about the future of the church and its place within the global Anglican fellowship is at center stage.
US Anglicans meet over gay clergy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7003969.stm
[BBC News] 20 Sep 2007--"The question is, really, 'What are the forms of behaviour that the Church has the freedom or the authority to bless if it wants to be faithful to scripture and tradition?'
"That's the question which is tearing us apart at the moment."
[BBC News] 20 Sep 2007--"The question is, really, 'What are the forms of behaviour that the Church has the freedom or the authority to bless if it wants to be faithful to scripture and tradition?'
"That's the question which is tearing us apart at the moment."
Bishop in full support of gays
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/709951.html
[The News & Observer] 20 Sep 2007--Episcopal bishops gather today in New Orleans to consider their response to leaders of the parent church who want them to back down from their commitment to gays and lesbians.
One North Carolina bishop will bring a clear message: Don't do it.
[The News & Observer] 20 Sep 2007--Episcopal bishops gather today in New Orleans to consider their response to leaders of the parent church who want them to back down from their commitment to gays and lesbians.
One North Carolina bishop will bring a clear message: Don't do it.
Violence and Communion: Why the World Looks to Anglicanism, Or Will Pass It By
http://anglicancommunioninstitute.com/content/view/112/1/
[Anglican Communion Institute] 20 Sep 2007--This talk was originally given in January, 2007 at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, at a continuing education conference on the future of the Anglican Communion. As the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops meets during these days to assess their own relation to the Communion, and the Communion's leadership - either together or in smaller, more localized or even autonomous groups - seeks to respond and chart their own way forward as a Communion or as something else, some of the elements discussed in this talk seem to be pertinent: will Anglicanism be an instrument of God's providential work for peace, in Christ Jesus' power, within a fragmented world? or will she submit to that world's own dynamics of violence? Who will be the beneficiaries or the victims of these choices? What responsibilities do the societies - and churches - of the West and of the Global South owe each other and themselves in the answering of these questions?
[Anglican Communion Institute] 20 Sep 2007--This talk was originally given in January, 2007 at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, at a continuing education conference on the future of the Anglican Communion. As the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops meets during these days to assess their own relation to the Communion, and the Communion's leadership - either together or in smaller, more localized or even autonomous groups - seeks to respond and chart their own way forward as a Communion or as something else, some of the elements discussed in this talk seem to be pertinent: will Anglicanism be an instrument of God's providential work for peace, in Christ Jesus' power, within a fragmented world? or will she submit to that world's own dynamics of violence? Who will be the beneficiaries or the victims of these choices? What responsibilities do the societies - and churches - of the West and of the Global South owe each other and themselves in the answering of these questions?
Honesty or Obfuscation in New Orleans?
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6050/
[TitusOneNine] 20 Sep 2007--If you read the Bible carefully, you may observe that the prophets reserve some of their strongest condemnations for lack of honesty—before God and before others. These people honor me with their lips, Isaiah says, but their hearts are far from me. The God of reality wants his people to face the reality about God, our world and ourselves, and we do nearly everything in our power to avoid it.
All this brings us to the central question facing the House of Bishops meeting this week in New Orleans: Is the leadership of the Episcopal Church going to be honest about what they really believe and are doing or will they hide behind an institutional and verbal smokescreen?
[TitusOneNine] 20 Sep 2007--If you read the Bible carefully, you may observe that the prophets reserve some of their strongest condemnations for lack of honesty—before God and before others. These people honor me with their lips, Isaiah says, but their hearts are far from me. The God of reality wants his people to face the reality about God, our world and ourselves, and we do nearly everything in our power to avoid it.
All this brings us to the central question facing the House of Bishops meeting this week in New Orleans: Is the leadership of the Episcopal Church going to be honest about what they really believe and are doing or will they hide behind an institutional and verbal smokescreen?
American Anglican Chaos (September 2007) & The Windsor Report (Paragraphs 154-155)
http://pbs1928.blogspot.com/2007/09/american-anglican-chaos-september-2007.html
[The Prayer Book Society] 20 Sep 2007--The Windsor Report (2004), accepted by three of the four Instruments of Unity of the Global Anglican Communion (Lambeth Conference not yet having met), has been much quoted in terms of what it laid as a moral requirement upon the two North American Provinces, especially The Episcopal Church [TEC]. However, it has been much less cited in terms of the moral requirement it laid upon other Provinces, which have been taking a particular interest in the internal affairs of these two North American Provinces.
[The Prayer Book Society] 20 Sep 2007--The Windsor Report (2004), accepted by three of the four Instruments of Unity of the Global Anglican Communion (Lambeth Conference not yet having met), has been much quoted in terms of what it laid as a moral requirement upon the two North American Provinces, especially The Episcopal Church [TEC]. However, it has been much less cited in terms of the moral requirement it laid upon other Provinces, which have been taking a particular interest in the internal affairs of these two North American Provinces.
Church of England Newspaper: Three questions for the USA
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6041/#more
[TitusOneNine] 20 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury has set three questions for the American Church to answer at this week’s meeting of the US House of Bishops in New Orleans. Failure to pass the test, which will be graded by the primates of the Anglican Communion, may result in the de facto expulsion of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion. While no legal mechanism exists to expel a member church from the Communion, should the Episcopal Church deign not to comply with the unanimous request of the Primates, the current structure of the Communion would not likely stand the stress, and crack up.
[TitusOneNine] 20 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury has set three questions for the American Church to answer at this week’s meeting of the US House of Bishops in New Orleans. Failure to pass the test, which will be graded by the primates of the Anglican Communion, may result in the de facto expulsion of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion. While no legal mechanism exists to expel a member church from the Communion, should the Episcopal Church deign not to comply with the unanimous request of the Primates, the current structure of the Communion would not likely stand the stress, and crack up.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Persell criticizes Akinola's anticipated visit
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90135_ENG_HTM.htm
[EpiscopalLife Online] 19 Sep 2007--Bishop William Persell of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has told diocesan clergy that Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola "did not extend the normal courtesy of contacting me about his visit" within the diocese.
The Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) congregations in Illinois have invited Akinola, primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, to celebrate the Holy Eucharist with them on September 23 at Edman Chapel at Wheaton College.
The AMiA describes itself as "a missionary movement of Rwanda committed to reaching the unchurched in North America."
[EpiscopalLife Online] 19 Sep 2007--Bishop William Persell of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has told diocesan clergy that Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola "did not extend the normal courtesy of contacting me about his visit" within the diocese.
The Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) congregations in Illinois have invited Akinola, primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, to celebrate the Holy Eucharist with them on September 23 at Edman Chapel at Wheaton College.
The AMiA describes itself as "a missionary movement of Rwanda committed to reaching the unchurched in North America."
Anglican Leader in U.S. Over Gay Bishop
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091500802.html
[The Washington Post] 19 Sep 2007--It wasn't just a friendly invitation.
U.S. Episcopal bishops, fed up with Anglican criticism of their support for gay priests, implored the Anglican spiritual leader to hear their side of the story _ in person.
Starting Thursday, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will be in New Orleans for that private talk, hoping he can hold together the increasingly fractured world Anglican family.
[The Washington Post] 19 Sep 2007--It wasn't just a friendly invitation.
U.S. Episcopal bishops, fed up with Anglican criticism of their support for gay priests, implored the Anglican spiritual leader to hear their side of the story _ in person.
Starting Thursday, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will be in New Orleans for that private talk, hoping he can hold together the increasingly fractured world Anglican family.
Anglican Communion has relational not jurisdictional bonds, says ACC leader
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6713
[VirtueOnline] 19 Sep 2007--Some of you may well have seen a memorandum written by Canon Robert Brooks of Connecticut. In that memo, Canon Brooks offers a cumulative argument by way of response to issues raised in the Communique of the Primates at Dar es Salaam and their proposals in respect of the relationship of the wider Communion with the Episcopal Church (TEC).
In his paper, Canon Brooks makes a spirited defence of "the Rule of Law" as a governing principle in the current situation. Noting that the Anglican Consultative Council is the only body at inter-Anglican level which has a constitution, he then goes on to argue that the Constitution of the ACC should be regarded as the most appropriate body of "law" applicable in this situation.
There is a lot to commend this approach. While Canon Brooks does perhaps too easily assume that the ACC Constitution acts as the entire constitutional framework of the Anglican Communion, he is correct in his argument that the only formal expression of membership of the Communion is contained in the Schedule to the Constitution of the ACC, as this is the way in which new Provinces become members of the ACC. Arguments over "exclusion" of provinces in the Anglican Communion cannot ignore the reality of this framework. This basic line of argument is one of which serious note has to be taken.
In the course of his paper, however, there are a number of observations about which it is probably appropriate to exercise a greater degree of caution.
[VirtueOnline] 19 Sep 2007--Some of you may well have seen a memorandum written by Canon Robert Brooks of Connecticut. In that memo, Canon Brooks offers a cumulative argument by way of response to issues raised in the Communique of the Primates at Dar es Salaam and their proposals in respect of the relationship of the wider Communion with the Episcopal Church (TEC).
In his paper, Canon Brooks makes a spirited defence of "the Rule of Law" as a governing principle in the current situation. Noting that the Anglican Consultative Council is the only body at inter-Anglican level which has a constitution, he then goes on to argue that the Constitution of the ACC should be regarded as the most appropriate body of "law" applicable in this situation.
There is a lot to commend this approach. While Canon Brooks does perhaps too easily assume that the ACC Constitution acts as the entire constitutional framework of the Anglican Communion, he is correct in his argument that the only formal expression of membership of the Communion is contained in the Schedule to the Constitution of the ACC, as this is the way in which new Provinces become members of the ACC. Arguments over "exclusion" of provinces in the Anglican Communion cannot ignore the reality of this framework. This basic line of argument is one of which serious note has to be taken.
In the course of his paper, however, there are a number of observations about which it is probably appropriate to exercise a greater degree of caution.
Why all Anglican eyes in London are nervously fixed on a powerful African archbishop
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6716
[VirtueOnline] 19 Sep 2007--The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about : Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria. An uncompromising traditionalist, Akinola presides over the most vibrant and almost certainly the largest Anglican community in the world-at a time when the Anglican world's true center of gravity has shifted to Africa.
It was no small matter, then, when Akinola went public this past summer with blistering denunciations of proposals to consecrate openly gay bishops and to sanctify gay marriage. Commenting on the decision of the Canadian diocese of New Westminster to approve the blessing of gay unions, Akinola declared that the diocese had in practice seceded from the Anglican world. Reacting to a proposal in the Church of England to ordain a gay bishop (a proposal ultimately withdrawn after intense pressure from African and Asian leaders), Akinola thundered, "This is an attack on the Church of God -a Satanic attack on God's Church." And during the buildup to the U.S. Episcopal Church's controversial ordination of Gene Robinson as the bishop of New Hampshire, he announced, "I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. Even in the world of animals, dogs, cows, lions, we don't hear of such things."
American and European readers may be inclined to dismiss such remarks as coming from a hidebound bigot, or perhaps from a demagogue seeking attention-but they would be wrong to do so. In his attitudes toward sexuality, and above all in his attitude toward religious authority, Akinola represents a deep-rooted conservative tradition in African Christianity that is flourishing and growing, and that is simply not going to vanish as levels of economic growth and education rise in Africa. The prospect of imminent global schism in the Anglican Communion is therefore real.
Matters may well have come to a head by the time this article goes to press: in October the Archbishop of Canterbury was scheduled to preside over an emergency session in London of the primates of his Church worldwide. Perhaps the session will turn out to avert open schism, but even the friendliest such meeting could not change the nature of the enduring conflict between the older and the younger Anglican churches, with those of Europe and North America set against those of Africa and Asia. Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians are watching these events with foreboding, because what is really at issue, of course, is competing conceptions of the nature of religious authority, of the relationship between the religious and secular spheres, and even of the possibility of coexisting peacefully with other faiths.
[VirtueOnline] 19 Sep 2007--The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about : Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria. An uncompromising traditionalist, Akinola presides over the most vibrant and almost certainly the largest Anglican community in the world-at a time when the Anglican world's true center of gravity has shifted to Africa.
It was no small matter, then, when Akinola went public this past summer with blistering denunciations of proposals to consecrate openly gay bishops and to sanctify gay marriage. Commenting on the decision of the Canadian diocese of New Westminster to approve the blessing of gay unions, Akinola declared that the diocese had in practice seceded from the Anglican world. Reacting to a proposal in the Church of England to ordain a gay bishop (a proposal ultimately withdrawn after intense pressure from African and Asian leaders), Akinola thundered, "This is an attack on the Church of God -a Satanic attack on God's Church." And during the buildup to the U.S. Episcopal Church's controversial ordination of Gene Robinson as the bishop of New Hampshire, he announced, "I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. Even in the world of animals, dogs, cows, lions, we don't hear of such things."
American and European readers may be inclined to dismiss such remarks as coming from a hidebound bigot, or perhaps from a demagogue seeking attention-but they would be wrong to do so. In his attitudes toward sexuality, and above all in his attitude toward religious authority, Akinola represents a deep-rooted conservative tradition in African Christianity that is flourishing and growing, and that is simply not going to vanish as levels of economic growth and education rise in Africa. The prospect of imminent global schism in the Anglican Communion is therefore real.
Matters may well have come to a head by the time this article goes to press: in October the Archbishop of Canterbury was scheduled to preside over an emergency session in London of the primates of his Church worldwide. Perhaps the session will turn out to avert open schism, but even the friendliest such meeting could not change the nature of the enduring conflict between the older and the younger Anglican churches, with those of Europe and North America set against those of Africa and Asia. Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians are watching these events with foreboding, because what is really at issue, of course, is competing conceptions of the nature of religious authority, of the relationship between the religious and secular spheres, and even of the possibility of coexisting peacefully with other faiths.
Correcting The Harare Herald
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6040/
[Stand Firm] 19 Sep 2007--epiScope has received the following email from Margaret Larom, director of Anglican and Global Relations:
Response to The Herald’s article of September 10th 2007 entitled “Homosexuality breaks up Anglican Province”.
As the Provincial Secretary of the Church of the Province of Central Africa I would like to set the record straight in regard to the article that appeared in The Herald newspaper of September 10th 2007 entitled “Homosexuality breaks up Anglican Province”....
[Stand Firm] 19 Sep 2007--epiScope has received the following email from Margaret Larom, director of Anglican and Global Relations:
Response to The Herald’s article of September 10th 2007 entitled “Homosexuality breaks up Anglican Province”.
As the Provincial Secretary of the Church of the Province of Central Africa I would like to set the record straight in regard to the article that appeared in The Herald newspaper of September 10th 2007 entitled “Homosexuality breaks up Anglican Province”....
Archbishop of Wales Rejects A Church Peace Plan
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/newspolitics/tm_headline=archbishop-of-wales-rejects-church-peace-plan&method=full&objectid=19812311&siteid=50082-name_page.html
[icWales] 19 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Wales yesterday won the applause of gay rights activists and dismayed conservatives when he rejected a plan intended to stop the Anglican communion splitting.
Today he and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams are flying to New Orleans where they will meet American bishops at the heart of the controversy over homosexuality.
Conservatives around the world were outraged in 2003 when the US church elected Gene Robinson – who had divorced his wife and was in a relationship with another man – as a bishop.
The controversial “Anglican Covenant” – a peace plan to keep disparate elements of the Anglican church united – is seen as one way in which trust between Anglicans the world over might be renewed and common identity and inheritance asserted.
But before jetting off to the US, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, told the Governing Body of the Church in Wales at a meeting in Lampeter yesterday that the covenant could leave Anglicans with different views on homosexuality no option but to leave the communion.
[icWales] 19 Sep 2007--The Archbishop of Wales yesterday won the applause of gay rights activists and dismayed conservatives when he rejected a plan intended to stop the Anglican communion splitting.
Today he and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams are flying to New Orleans where they will meet American bishops at the heart of the controversy over homosexuality.
Conservatives around the world were outraged in 2003 when the US church elected Gene Robinson – who had divorced his wife and was in a relationship with another man – as a bishop.
The controversial “Anglican Covenant” – a peace plan to keep disparate elements of the Anglican church united – is seen as one way in which trust between Anglicans the world over might be renewed and common identity and inheritance asserted.
But before jetting off to the US, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, told the Governing Body of the Church in Wales at a meeting in Lampeter yesterday that the covenant could leave Anglicans with different views on homosexuality no option but to leave the communion.
From the Bishop of Upper South Carolina (on the Lawyer/Bishops’ Report)
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6030/
[Stand Firm] 19 Sep 2007--Apparently it has been reported that I have repudiated the document entitled "The Constitutional Crisis, 2007: A Statement to the House of Bishops, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Honored Visitors."
That is not accurate.Bishop Doss, some time ago, requested that I participate with a group of lawyer-bishops in working on the document, and, honored to be invited, I agreed to do so. However, due to my own vocational demands -- and perhaps some procrastination -- I did not study the draft and offer suggestions until the very end of the process. Consequently, when I did respond, the work had been completed and sent to the printer.
I did ask -- too late -- that my name be dropped from the list of contributors because, in fact, I had contributed nothing to it. It would be inappropriate for me to take credit for the work of others-but this is not to be interpreted as a repudiation. This document, nothing less than a "magnum opus" is truly worthy to be considered by The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion -- indeed, as an appropriate part of the process commended to TEC and the Communion in the Windsor Report.
The other reason that I asked that my name not be published -- that is, in addition to the fact that I had not taken advantage of the opportunity to contribute to the document's content -- is, as I explained to Bishop Doss, that I would be "concurring in part and dissenting in part". The concept of an Anglican Constitution is a bold suggestion, and merits our serious study, dialogue and reflection. My contribution to that dialogue can be summarized with these general observations....
[Stand Firm] 19 Sep 2007--Apparently it has been reported that I have repudiated the document entitled "The Constitutional Crisis, 2007: A Statement to the House of Bishops, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Honored Visitors."
That is not accurate.Bishop Doss, some time ago, requested that I participate with a group of lawyer-bishops in working on the document, and, honored to be invited, I agreed to do so. However, due to my own vocational demands -- and perhaps some procrastination -- I did not study the draft and offer suggestions until the very end of the process. Consequently, when I did respond, the work had been completed and sent to the printer.
I did ask -- too late -- that my name be dropped from the list of contributors because, in fact, I had contributed nothing to it. It would be inappropriate for me to take credit for the work of others-but this is not to be interpreted as a repudiation. This document, nothing less than a "magnum opus" is truly worthy to be considered by The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion -- indeed, as an appropriate part of the process commended to TEC and the Communion in the Windsor Report.
The other reason that I asked that my name not be published -- that is, in addition to the fact that I had not taken advantage of the opportunity to contribute to the document's content -- is, as I explained to Bishop Doss, that I would be "concurring in part and dissenting in part". The concept of an Anglican Constitution is a bold suggestion, and merits our serious study, dialogue and reflection. My contribution to that dialogue can be summarized with these general observations....
Letter to the Church of the Good Shepherd
http://www.binghamtongoodshepherd.com/houseofbishops.shtml
[Church of the Good Shepherd] 19 Sep 2007--I am leaving this week to attend the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans . This is a very important meeting. The primates (38 top archbishops of the various Anglican provinces around the world) of the Anglican Communion met this year in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania and gave the Episcopal Church until September 30th , two Sundays from now, to repent of her decisions to bless homosexual behavior and to permit the consecration of bishops unrepentantly engaging homosexual sex. This coming House of Bishops meeting that begins Thursday (20th of September) and runs through next week, is the last chance for the Episcopal Church to comply with this request and commit to ending both practices.
The Episcopal Church has already refused to enact the first part of the Primates' proposal which would have provided a way for parishes (like Good Shepherd) and dioceses that wish to remain faithful to the scriptures and 2000 years of Christian teaching to co-exist in a separate structure under our own Primatial Vicar during this time of dispute in the Communion.
Now we will see whether the Episcopal Church will be willing to comply with the second part of the proposal and repent of her unbiblical and destructive actions toward those who are living in sinful sexual relationships.
This is a very serious issue.
[Church of the Good Shepherd] 19 Sep 2007--I am leaving this week to attend the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans . This is a very important meeting. The primates (38 top archbishops of the various Anglican provinces around the world) of the Anglican Communion met this year in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania and gave the Episcopal Church until September 30th , two Sundays from now, to repent of her decisions to bless homosexual behavior and to permit the consecration of bishops unrepentantly engaging homosexual sex. This coming House of Bishops meeting that begins Thursday (20th of September) and runs through next week, is the last chance for the Episcopal Church to comply with this request and commit to ending both practices.
The Episcopal Church has already refused to enact the first part of the Primates' proposal which would have provided a way for parishes (like Good Shepherd) and dioceses that wish to remain faithful to the scriptures and 2000 years of Christian teaching to co-exist in a separate structure under our own Primatial Vicar during this time of dispute in the Communion.
Now we will see whether the Episcopal Church will be willing to comply with the second part of the proposal and repent of her unbiblical and destructive actions toward those who are living in sinful sexual relationships.
This is a very serious issue.
Archbishop Williams meets with US House of Bishops
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/19/archbishop-williams-meets-with-us-house-of-bishops/
[Anglican Mainstreamm] 19 Sep 2007--Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will demand concessions from the bishops of the US Episcopal Church tomorrow at a crisis meeting aimed at staving off the most damaging split in the churchs modern history, over the issue of homosexuality.They will be asked to give guarantees that they will not allow the election of any more openly gay bishops or authorise public blessing services for same-sex couples and will create a structure for separate episcopal oversight for conservative congregations who disagree with the churchs liberal leadership.
The continuing unity of the 77 million-strong worldwide Anglican communion, the worlds third largest Christian denomination, hangs in the balance, not in an ancient cathedral but the incongruous surroundings of a hotel in downtown New Orleans.The archbishop is meeting the US bishops for six hours, tomorrow and Friday, at the citys marble and glass multistorey Intercontinental Hotel, 10 days ahead of a communion-imposed ultimatum, forcing the Americans to row back on their churchs liberal inclusiveness towards gays.
[Anglican Mainstreamm] 19 Sep 2007--Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will demand concessions from the bishops of the US Episcopal Church tomorrow at a crisis meeting aimed at staving off the most damaging split in the churchs modern history, over the issue of homosexuality.They will be asked to give guarantees that they will not allow the election of any more openly gay bishops or authorise public blessing services for same-sex couples and will create a structure for separate episcopal oversight for conservative congregations who disagree with the churchs liberal leadership.
The continuing unity of the 77 million-strong worldwide Anglican communion, the worlds third largest Christian denomination, hangs in the balance, not in an ancient cathedral but the incongruous surroundings of a hotel in downtown New Orleans.The archbishop is meeting the US bishops for six hours, tomorrow and Friday, at the citys marble and glass multistorey Intercontinental Hotel, 10 days ahead of a communion-imposed ultimatum, forcing the Americans to row back on their churchs liberal inclusiveness towards gays.
Interview with David Phillips, Church Society
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/18/interview-with-david-phillips-church-society/
[Anglican Mainstream] 19 Sep 2007--An Interview with the Rev. David Phillips, General Secretary of Church Society, an evangelical and reformed ministry within the Church of England begun in 1835.
[Anglican Mainstream] 19 Sep 2007--An Interview with the Rev. David Phillips, General Secretary of Church Society, an evangelical and reformed ministry within the Church of England begun in 1835.
Rowan Williams and hermeneutics
http://mpjensen.blogspot.com/2007/09/rowan-williams-and-hermeneutics.html
[The Blogging Parson] 19 Sep 2007--How does William come to place ‘judgement’ in such a significant position?
The answer, as Williams painstakingly works it out in a number of studies, is hermeneutical. Williams largely accepts that almost two centuries of historical-critical work on the text of the Bible have made reading scripture as a seamless unity hopelessly naïve. However, this is not a cause for dismay as far as Williams is concerned. Contrary to those older liberal voices who would see the authority of scripture as greatly diminished by historical criticism of the Bible, Williams actually sees the authority and significance of scripture as found in the diverse, inchoate and evidently worked-on text. The phenomenon of scripture always incorporated within its boundaries a plurality of voices and indeed a plurality of perspectives. The historical criticism has only revealed what was in fact always the case: that the New Testament is the record of the first awed, stumbling responses to an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth. We should not expect consistency; in fact, we should be delighted not to find it, because their inarticulacy and disagreements give us hope that our meagre efforts at talking about God are not ultimately futile, whatever their inadequacy.
[The Blogging Parson] 19 Sep 2007--How does William come to place ‘judgement’ in such a significant position?
The answer, as Williams painstakingly works it out in a number of studies, is hermeneutical. Williams largely accepts that almost two centuries of historical-critical work on the text of the Bible have made reading scripture as a seamless unity hopelessly naïve. However, this is not a cause for dismay as far as Williams is concerned. Contrary to those older liberal voices who would see the authority of scripture as greatly diminished by historical criticism of the Bible, Williams actually sees the authority and significance of scripture as found in the diverse, inchoate and evidently worked-on text. The phenomenon of scripture always incorporated within its boundaries a plurality of voices and indeed a plurality of perspectives. The historical criticism has only revealed what was in fact always the case: that the New Testament is the record of the first awed, stumbling responses to an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth. We should not expect consistency; in fact, we should be delighted not to find it, because their inarticulacy and disagreements give us hope that our meagre efforts at talking about God are not ultimately futile, whatever their inadequacy.
U.S. Episcopal church faces another showdown on gays
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6038/
[TitrusOneNine] 19 Sep 2007--At the top of the agenda is a "request" issued by the presiding Anglican bishops meeting in Africa earlier this year that the 2.4-million-member U.S. church, by September 30, clearly renounce the blessing of same-sex marriages and make it clear it will not allow more non-celibate gays to become bishops.
The U.S. church in 2003 consecrated Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as the first bishop known to be in an openly gay relationship in more than four centuries of church history.
That not only caused dissension and defection within the U.S. church but riled defenders of traditional Christianity in African, Asian and Latin American congregations that now account for half of the world's Anglican followers.
And it left Williams with an increasingly difficult task of keeping the loose federation of Anglicans under one tent without alienating the U.S. church whose wealth gives it power far beyond its numbers in Anglican operations worldwide.
[TitrusOneNine] 19 Sep 2007--At the top of the agenda is a "request" issued by the presiding Anglican bishops meeting in Africa earlier this year that the 2.4-million-member U.S. church, by September 30, clearly renounce the blessing of same-sex marriages and make it clear it will not allow more non-celibate gays to become bishops.
The U.S. church in 2003 consecrated Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as the first bishop known to be in an openly gay relationship in more than four centuries of church history.
That not only caused dissension and defection within the U.S. church but riled defenders of traditional Christianity in African, Asian and Latin American congregations that now account for half of the world's Anglican followers.
And it left Williams with an increasingly difficult task of keeping the loose federation of Anglicans under one tent without alienating the U.S. church whose wealth gives it power far beyond its numbers in Anglican operations worldwide.
Tension as Episcopal bishops meet
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0919/p03s03-ussc.htm
[Christian Science Monitor] 19 Sep 2007--For four years, the US Episcopal Church has faced rising discontent within the worldwide Anglican Communion over its stance on approving gay bishops and other issues, threatening a schism.
Those same issues could now exacerbate a split within the US church, potentially tearing apart some congregations in a denomination that historically has prided itself on "unity in diversity." Much is riding on high-level meetings in New Orleans beginning Thursday.
Many are calling it "a watershed moment," as the bishops decide how to respond to requests from global Anglican leaders for "unequivocal assurances" that they will not approve another gay bishop and won't authorize or permit blessing of same-sex unions.
[Christian Science Monitor] 19 Sep 2007--For four years, the US Episcopal Church has faced rising discontent within the worldwide Anglican Communion over its stance on approving gay bishops and other issues, threatening a schism.
Those same issues could now exacerbate a split within the US church, potentially tearing apart some congregations in a denomination that historically has prided itself on "unity in diversity." Much is riding on high-level meetings in New Orleans beginning Thursday.
Many are calling it "a watershed moment," as the bishops decide how to respond to requests from global Anglican leaders for "unequivocal assurances" that they will not approve another gay bishop and won't authorize or permit blessing of same-sex unions.
N.O. becomes the accidental backdrop for a high-stakes meeting to save the world's Anglican communion
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1190184206232530.xml&coll=1&thispage=3
[The Times-Picayune] 19 Sep 2007--American bishops on both sides of the sexuality question seemed to form a strong consensus against the foreign primates' proposal to create their own leadership structures inside the American church, an idea widely viewed as a violation of each church's autonomy.
In recent months, however, to the dismay of Williams and most Episcopal bishops, Akinola and other African bishops have begun ordaining their own new conservative American bishops inside the Episcopal church, effectively creating an embryonic structure for conservatives under their own oversight.
The bishops' schedule calls for closed-door meetings with Williams all day Thursday and Friday morning. First among the Episcopal bishops will be Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, a defender of faithful gays and lesbians, who was elected last summer.
[The Times-Picayune] 19 Sep 2007--American bishops on both sides of the sexuality question seemed to form a strong consensus against the foreign primates' proposal to create their own leadership structures inside the American church, an idea widely viewed as a violation of each church's autonomy.
In recent months, however, to the dismay of Williams and most Episcopal bishops, Akinola and other African bishops have begun ordaining their own new conservative American bishops inside the Episcopal church, effectively creating an embryonic structure for conservatives under their own oversight.
The bishops' schedule calls for closed-door meetings with Williams all day Thursday and Friday morning. First among the Episcopal bishops will be Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, a defender of faithful gays and lesbians, who was elected last summer.
Episcopalian church beginning to divide
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/09/18/Episcopal_0919_web.html
[ajc.com] 19 Sep 2007--David Wardell no longer cares what the American Episcopalian bishops do when they meet in New Orleans today.
The bishops are facing a deadline from world church leaders to back off approving gay bishops or blessing gay unions, or else face possible breaks in communion with the larger church.
That no longer bothers Wardell and more than 100 other former members of Saint Andrew's in the Pines in Peachtree City because they left the Episcopalian church in February and aligned themselves with a Nigerian bishop. Their new congregation is called All Saints Anglican Church.
Three other metro Atlanta congregations operate under the authority of a Bolivian bishop.
[ajc.com] 19 Sep 2007--David Wardell no longer cares what the American Episcopalian bishops do when they meet in New Orleans today.
The bishops are facing a deadline from world church leaders to back off approving gay bishops or blessing gay unions, or else face possible breaks in communion with the larger church.
That no longer bothers Wardell and more than 100 other former members of Saint Andrew's in the Pines in Peachtree City because they left the Episcopalian church in February and aligned themselves with a Nigerian bishop. Their new congregation is called All Saints Anglican Church.
Three other metro Atlanta congregations operate under the authority of a Bolivian bishop.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Fresh offensive as Anglicans fail on conversions
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/fresh-offensive-as-anglicans-fail-on-conversions/2007/09/17/1189881434134.html
[Brisbane Times] 18 Sep 2007--The great mission of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, to convert 10 per cent of Sydneysiders to its "Bible-based" churches has fallen short of its target and only recruited 5000 adult converts in the past five years.
Far from being discouraged, the Archbishop has announced a fresh $1.8-million offensive to stir the spirit of the city's unchurched, including gospel giveaways, a meet-and-greet campaign in supermarkets, shopping centres, clubs and prisons, and support for a television campaign to promote Jesus to Australians.
[Brisbane Times] 18 Sep 2007--The great mission of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, to convert 10 per cent of Sydneysiders to its "Bible-based" churches has fallen short of its target and only recruited 5000 adult converts in the past five years.
Far from being discouraged, the Archbishop has announced a fresh $1.8-million offensive to stir the spirit of the city's unchurched, including gospel giveaways, a meet-and-greet campaign in supermarkets, shopping centres, clubs and prisons, and support for a television campaign to promote Jesus to Australians.
Ugandan archbishop to speak at St. Peter's Anglican Church
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6693
[VirtueOnline] 18 Sep 2007--The Rt. Rev. Henry Luke Orombi, archbishop of the Anglican Province in Uganda, will be speaking at St. Peter's Anglican Church on Monday. It's the first time he's made rounds of the 33 American churches he now oversees.
[VirtueOnline] 18 Sep 2007--The Rt. Rev. Henry Luke Orombi, archbishop of the Anglican Province in Uganda, will be speaking at St. Peter's Anglican Church on Monday. It's the first time he's made rounds of the 33 American churches he now oversees.
Integrity’s Goals Outlined in Strategic Plan
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/6008/
[Stand Firm] 18 Sep 2007--I do hope Bishops Gray, Howe, Jenkins, Wimberly and a few others read this. It's Integrity's August 2007 newsletter, and in it they detail their goals for the future...
Doesn't look like Integrity wants to loose its hold on The Episcopal Church.
[Stand Firm] 18 Sep 2007--I do hope Bishops Gray, Howe, Jenkins, Wimberly and a few others read this. It's Integrity's August 2007 newsletter, and in it they detail their goals for the future...
Doesn't look like Integrity wants to loose its hold on The Episcopal Church.
Integrity InfoLetter makes for Interesting Reading
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6016/
[TitusOneNine] 18 Sep 2007--Don't Blink Now! Ask Your Bishop To Hold The Line
It is absolutely essential that you contact your bishop before September 19th and encourage him or her to "hold the line" against the primates' unreasonable demands. Insist that there be no backsliding on full inclusion of the LGBT faithful. Write, e-mail, or call your bishop today! Here are some points to make…
• The primates' of the Anglican Communion do not have authority over the Episcopal Church.• The House of Bishops cannot set policy for the entire Episcopal Church.
• The Executive Council has already rejected the primates' ultimatum on behalf of the entire Episcopal Church.
• The Episcopal Church cannot abandon its LGBT members for the sake of continued membership in the Anglican Communion.
We can't abandon justice to maintain unity.
Integrity puts out an "action alert" to the party faithful.
[TitusOneNine] 18 Sep 2007--Don't Blink Now! Ask Your Bishop To Hold The Line
It is absolutely essential that you contact your bishop before September 19th and encourage him or her to "hold the line" against the primates' unreasonable demands. Insist that there be no backsliding on full inclusion of the LGBT faithful. Write, e-mail, or call your bishop today! Here are some points to make…
• The primates' of the Anglican Communion do not have authority over the Episcopal Church.• The House of Bishops cannot set policy for the entire Episcopal Church.
• The Executive Council has already rejected the primates' ultimatum on behalf of the entire Episcopal Church.
• The Episcopal Church cannot abandon its LGBT members for the sake of continued membership in the Anglican Communion.
We can't abandon justice to maintain unity.
Integrity puts out an "action alert" to the party faithful.
The Edge: The Episcopal Church, September 2007
http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?ID=231
[Fulcrum] 18 Sep 2007--'Edge' has several meanings, literal and figurative. These include, 'sharpened side of blade', 'brink of a precipice', 'critical position or moment' and 'boundary line'. When people are 'on edge' they are 'excitable or irritable'. The verb, 'to edge', means 'to furnish with a border' and finally there is (the very Anglican verb?) 'to edge forward'.
[Fulcrum] 18 Sep 2007--'Edge' has several meanings, literal and figurative. These include, 'sharpened side of blade', 'brink of a precipice', 'critical position or moment' and 'boundary line'. When people are 'on edge' they are 'excitable or irritable'. The verb, 'to edge', means 'to furnish with a border' and finally there is (the very Anglican verb?) 'to edge forward'.
If at first you don’t succeed….
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/6006/
[TitusOneNine] 18 Sep 2007--The Diocese of Connecticut is one of the diocesan websites we visited on our diocesan news trawl last night (see "it's awfully quiet...", below). Although Connecticut didn't have any recent news that we could find about the HoB meeting or the Sept. 30 deadline to respond to the Primates, we did check out the page for their upcoming Diocesan Convention in mid-October. Of particular interest was the Resolutions page, and especially the anti-B033 Resolution.
[TitusOneNine] 18 Sep 2007--The Diocese of Connecticut is one of the diocesan websites we visited on our diocesan news trawl last night (see "it's awfully quiet...", below). Although Connecticut didn't have any recent news that we could find about the HoB meeting or the Sept. 30 deadline to respond to the Primates, we did check out the page for their upcoming Diocesan Convention in mid-October. Of particular interest was the Resolutions page, and especially the anti-B033 Resolution.
It’s awfully quiet in many dioceses
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/5995/
[TitusOneNine] 18 Sep 2007--Regular readers of the Anglican blogosphere, be they fans of blogs such as T19, Stand Firm, Drell, and BabyBlue on one "side" or EpiScope, Episcopal Cafe, Fr. Jake, and Susan Russell on the other "side," know things are buzzing right now. We're gearing up for the September TEC HoB meetings in New Orleans later this week (Sept 20-25), the Common Cause Bishops' Council in Pittsburgh immediately following, and the September 30 Dar es Salaam deadline. In some quarters, reports, responses, articles and pastoral letters are flying so fast and thick that it's dizzying and pretty much impossible to "read it all," no matter how often Kendall exhorts us to do just that!
[TitusOneNine] 18 Sep 2007--Regular readers of the Anglican blogosphere, be they fans of blogs such as T19, Stand Firm, Drell, and BabyBlue on one "side" or EpiScope, Episcopal Cafe, Fr. Jake, and Susan Russell on the other "side," know things are buzzing right now. We're gearing up for the September TEC HoB meetings in New Orleans later this week (Sept 20-25), the Common Cause Bishops' Council in Pittsburgh immediately following, and the September 30 Dar es Salaam deadline. In some quarters, reports, responses, articles and pastoral letters are flying so fast and thick that it's dizzying and pretty much impossible to "read it all," no matter how often Kendall exhorts us to do just that!
“Behind you, multitudes are coming” Archbishop Orombi
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/09/17/behind-you-multitudes-are-coming-archbishop-orombi/
[Anglican Mainstream] 18 Sep 2007--God is doing a new thing,” the Archbishop of Uganda told the crowd of several hundred at the afternoon dedication at Christ Church, Montgomery, Alabama. “And history will record that when God moved you were there.” In Uganda, hundreds, he said, are coming to Jesus Christ every time they go to a diocese. “That is coming to you. I believe very strongly that God is going to fill this place. Behind you, multitudes are coming.”
[Anglican Mainstream] 18 Sep 2007--God is doing a new thing,” the Archbishop of Uganda told the crowd of several hundred at the afternoon dedication at Christ Church, Montgomery, Alabama. “And history will record that when God moved you were there.” In Uganda, hundreds, he said, are coming to Jesus Christ every time they go to a diocese. “That is coming to you. I believe very strongly that God is going to fill this place. Behind you, multitudes are coming.”
El Paso Pro-Cathedral Reaches Property Accord with Diocese
http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3813
{The Living Church] 18 Sep 2007--A majority of members of the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Clement, El Paso, Texas, voted Sunday to leave The Episcopal Church. Leaders of the downtown congregation did not announce a destination of a foreign Anglican jurisdiction as many churches have, but they told a reporter for the El Paso Times that St. Clement’s would remain part of the Anglican Communion Network.
{The Living Church] 18 Sep 2007--A majority of members of the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Clement, El Paso, Texas, voted Sunday to leave The Episcopal Church. Leaders of the downtown congregation did not announce a destination of a foreign Anglican jurisdiction as many churches have, but they told a reporter for the El Paso Times that St. Clement’s would remain part of the Anglican Communion Network.
Joint ACC, Primates Committee to Meet Sept. 24
http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3812
[The Living Church] 18 Sep 2007--The Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) and the Primates will meet Monday, Sept. 24, in New Orleans, a spokesman for the ACC has announced.
[The Living Church] 18 Sep 2007--The Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) and the Primates will meet Monday, Sept. 24, in New Orleans, a spokesman for the ACC has announced.
Archbishop to lead secretive communion for homosexuals
http://www.evangelicals.org/news.asp?id=730
[EV News] 18 Sep 2007--Information has come to light that the Archbishop of Canterbury will be leading a service of Holy Communion for a secretive group of what appear to be homosexual clergy. The secretive nature and circumstances of the meeting suggest that they have something to hide. Moreover as is well known there are clergy in the Church of England who have refused to give assurances that they are celibate and Bishops who, contrary to their own agreed policy, apparently refuse to ask for such assurances.
Related articles:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2007/09/rowan-williams-.html#more
Rowan Williams to celebrate 'secret' LGBT communion service - Ruth Gledhill - Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2476972.ece
Archbishop calls secret service for gay clergy to halt slide towards schism - Times Online
http://cheatseekingmissiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/anglican-leader-between-rock-and-gay.html
Anglican Leader Between A Rock And A Gay Place - Cheat-Seeking Missiles
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5725
Williams in confidential meetings to try to resolve Anglican arguments - ekklesia
[EV News] 18 Sep 2007--Information has come to light that the Archbishop of Canterbury will be leading a service of Holy Communion for a secretive group of what appear to be homosexual clergy. The secretive nature and circumstances of the meeting suggest that they have something to hide. Moreover as is well known there are clergy in the Church of England who have refused to give assurances that they are celibate and Bishops who, contrary to their own agreed policy, apparently refuse to ask for such assurances.
Related articles:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2007/09/rowan-williams-.html#more
Rowan Williams to celebrate 'secret' LGBT communion service - Ruth Gledhill - Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2476972.ece
Archbishop calls secret service for gay clergy to halt slide towards schism - Times Online
http://cheatseekingmissiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/anglican-leader-between-rock-and-gay.html
Anglican Leader Between A Rock And A Gay Place - Cheat-Seeking Missiles
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5725
Williams in confidential meetings to try to resolve Anglican arguments - ekklesia
Monday, September 17, 2007
Bishop Gray’s Letter on the House of Bishops Meeting
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/5984/
[Stand Firm] 17 Sep 2007--From the diocesan web site:
I do not believe, as I've said to many of you previously, that this gathering of the House of Bishops is a final "line in the sand" moment. It is a part of a process that will help us to discern, in the words of the Windsor Report, the "highest degree of communion possible" within our Anglican Communion. I have received my invitation to the Lambeth Conference, as have all but a handful of other bishops. I fully expect this ongoing discernment of communion to continue at Lambeth.
Sadly, I fear Bishop Gray is right: New Orleans will be yet another step in "the process." I disagree with him that, as he seems to imply, this will be yet another typical step in the process. I do believe that in the future we will look back on New Orleans as a major turning point.
[Stand Firm] 17 Sep 2007--From the diocesan web site:
I do not believe, as I've said to many of you previously, that this gathering of the House of Bishops is a final "line in the sand" moment. It is a part of a process that will help us to discern, in the words of the Windsor Report, the "highest degree of communion possible" within our Anglican Communion. I have received my invitation to the Lambeth Conference, as have all but a handful of other bishops. I fully expect this ongoing discernment of communion to continue at Lambeth.
Sadly, I fear Bishop Gray is right: New Orleans will be yet another step in "the process." I disagree with him that, as he seems to imply, this will be yet another typical step in the process. I do believe that in the future we will look back on New Orleans as a major turning point.
Archbishop Peter Jensen’s Presidential Address
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/5978/
[Stand Firm] 17 Sep 2007--to be given at Sydney Diocesan Synod, Thursday 20 September. A long speech but well worth going through if you want to know the mind of the current leader of Sydney Diocese. The headline grabber is this....
[Stand Firm] 17 Sep 2007--to be given at Sydney Diocesan Synod, Thursday 20 September. A long speech but well worth going through if you want to know the mind of the current leader of Sydney Diocese. The headline grabber is this....
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