Last Sunday, the promised new church for conservative Ottawa Anglicans held its first worship service. The turnout was small, but hopes are high. And on the first day, barely a dozen of the breakaway Anglican faithful showed up. Far from being disappointed, Brian DeVisser said he considered yesterday’s service a historic and successful occasion that [...]
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Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Jan 3rd, 2008
From here, and I thought the last paragraph deserved a mention: The synod decision seems to contradict a “pastoral statement” reaffirmed by Canadian Anglican bishops at their October meeting that says clergy may celebrate a eucharist and intercessory prayers with a homosexual couple, but not pronounce a nuptial blessing. Bishop Spence was a co-author of [...]
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Posted in Anglican Artistic Moments on Jan 2nd, 2008
Note from Peter: Gene was my co-blogger for General Synod ’07. I have prevailed upon him to post his pictures here on the AEC blog as a) they’re very good and b) they’re very funny . We now have a regular Anglican Artist to break up all the wordy posts!
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 2nd, 2008
Two sites have been added to our blogroll. Frequent commenter prairiewords has his own blog, The Occasional Christian, Reaching for the Cross. Also, the Anglican prayer blog Lent & Beyond has been around for a long time, but this seems a good time to add it. Check ‘em out!
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