Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 26th, 2007
GLOBAL ANGLICAN FUTURE CONFERENCE IN HOLY LAND ANNOUNCED BY ORTHODOX PRIMATES Orthodox Primates with other leading bishops from across the globe are to invite fellow Bishops, senior clergy and laity from every province of the Anglican Communion to a unique eight-day event, to be known as the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) 2008. The event, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2007
May the blessing of Christ be yours this Christmas time!
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 20th, 2007
From Anglican Mainstream Rev’d. Ken Harding, Athabasca, Alberta, CA In most of our cases (certainly mine) the same families have built successively on our church sites for generations. In my case it was a tent first, serving the natives and the fur trappers, then a log church built on land donated by the Hudson’s Bay [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Dec 19th, 2007
The Diocese of New Westminster continues to pretend that it is fulfilling the primates’ request for a moratorium on same-sex blessings. Moritorium [sic] continues on new places of same sex blessing Only 8 parishes authorized; couples must be legally married The blessing of a same sex couple may take place only in one of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion Alliance, Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 19th, 2007
Statement and Communiqué can be found here. The first meeting of the Common Cause Leadership Council created the structure necessary for building a federation of orthodox Anglicans in North America. Three delegates from each of the ten Common Cause partners gathered in Orlando, Florida December 17-18. The Council unanimously elected Bishop Bob Duncan as Moderator. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2007
I’ve updated the blogroll in the bar to the right (or at the bottom in some browsers) with other orthodox Canadian Anglican blogs, along with some of the larger orthodox Anglican sites out there on the net. Please feel free to drop into comments any sites I may have missed (and there’s likely to be [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 17th, 2007
Having had time to digest the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Advent letter, and read some of the responses that have been made, I thought that I would add my thoughts here. Firstly, it is encouraging that Archbishop Williams understands this debate is not at the fundamental level to be one regarding sexuality, but one of scriptural [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 16th, 2007
From The Rt Rev Donald Harvey, Bishop in the Province of the Southern Cone and moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada. Christmas 2007 Dear Friends in Christ: I recall as a child in Sunday School joining with my fellow classmates in singing with great gusto (especially at this time of the year), a hymn [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2007
We’ve all heard a lot of depressing bafflegab from Anglican leaders in recent months. For me, this hits a new low. In an interview with Oi!, a British magazine by and for teenagers, The Rev Dr Rowan Williams had this to offer in response to a question about his support for ordaining homosexual clergy. “I [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Dec 14th, 2007
From here. I might add the dubious benefit of my thoughts later once I’ve had a chance to think it through. To: Primates of the Anglican Communion & Moderators of the United Churches Greetings in the name of the One ‘who is and was and is to come, the Almighty’, as we prepare in this [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 12th, 2007
Below is an article Fr. Michael Heidt wrote for the December edition of New Directions – the UK’s Forward in Faith magazine. Fr. Michael is the Priest at St. John the Evangelist, Calgary. Like it or not, its just one of those facts of life that the United States is extremely powerful, and some of [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 12th, 2007
A Common Cause letter from the ACN that should be of interest to us in the Great White North. H/t Newbie Anglican. Dear Network, The next major milestone in the development of Common Cause is next week, when the Common Cause Leadership Council gathers in Orlando, Florida on December 18 for its inaugural meeting. The [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 11th, 2007
There was a request (hello Joseph) for Bishop Malcolm Harding’s sermon given during the ordination of two new deacons in Abbotsford on 2nd December. Your request is, of course, my command. So, here it is, courtesy of ACiC.
Posted in Anglican Essentials, Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 11th, 2007
At a meeting held last night, Anglican Essentials Ottawa said a new church for traditional Anglicans will open next month. Following the conservative Anglican Network’s decision to establish a parallel new national Anglican church at a November conference in Burlington, a group of conservative Ottawa Anglicans plans to establish their own church in January. At [...]
Posted in Anglican Essentials on Dec 8th, 2007
I usually try to keep the blog focused on matters North of the border, however I thought this one deserved an honourary mention: FRESNO, California (Reuters) – An entire California diocese of the U.S. Episcopal Church voted to secede on Saturday in a historic split following years of disagreement over the church’s expanding support for [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion Alliance, Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 8th, 2007
This isn’t new news, but in light of recent events, I thought this was worth highlighting: Anglican Essentials Federation The Anglican Essentials Federation affirms its commitment as part of Anglican Essentials Canada to serving as the theological and spiritual rallying point for historic orthodoxy within the Anglican Church of Canada. We bless our brothers and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2007
I am aware that at this time events in the Anglican world are causing people to be less than charitable towards one another (whichever ‘side’ you happen to be on). I have no objection to people disagreeing, robustly debating etc on this blog. It’s all par for the course, especially in the blog world. What [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 4th, 2007
by The Rev Ken Harding, a pastor in Athabasca, Alberta (source Anglican Mainstream) Many have heard that recently a historic step was taken in the affairs of the worldwide Anglican Communion. National and international coverage referred to the “split” or “break up” of the Anglican Church of Canada. Personally, I think these terms convey a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2007
This is an op-ed piece I’ve c/p from my blog. I hope it may be a blessing to some here. What follows below is a synthesis of some emails that have been floating about in our local prophetic group. I think that they deserve a wider audience: The word which was brought to my attention [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Dec 3rd, 2007
Yesterday, 2nd December, Bishop Don ordained two new deacons – Dr Ken Deeks and Gary Stobbs (Gary is on the left of the picture below, Ken is on the right). (Apologies for the picture quality but I have had to reduce the original picture considerably to fit it in this post) The service was held [...]
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