St Alban’s Church, Ottawa (at right), one of the leading Network parishes in Ontario, is the focus of a report on Anglicanism’s “worldwide civil war” in today’s Ottawa Citizen.
St. Alban’s Church on King Edward Avenue is part of the Anglican Network in Canada, which recently unveiled a gloves-off separation strategy including a $1-million defence fund for legal battles in wresting properties such as St. Alban’s away from the Anglican Church of Canada.
Rev. George Sinclair, pastor at St. Alban’s, refused to comment when asked if his congregation would likely sue the Ottawa diocese to get the heritage building.
Reporter Jennifer Green makes a speculative assumption as to who would sue whom. Note also what she writes later in the article.
In the U.S., 11 churches in Virginia have taken their diocese to court over the ownership of church buildings.
I don’t think so.
That slip notwithstanding, the report appears to me a reasonably fair summary of recent events in the Anglican Church of Canada.
h/t: Virtue Online
The photograph of St Alban’s does not show the prominent banner that is normally in place below the stained glass window. The banner says Jesus is Alive, and is a testimony to what the church sees as important – boldly proclaiming the gospel to a world that desperately needs to hear the good news.
The banner has been stolen on several occasions, but a new one always replaces it. At least it is being noticed.
It’s back up, Warren – we put it much higher, and it hasn’t been stolen again for a while now.