Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 31st, 2008
From the Times. Read the whole thing for a refreshing blast of anti-twaddle. Update: The Journal’s view. So, it was appropriate, after the American decision in 2003, that the Archbishop of Canterbury convened an emergency meeting of the primates to address the biblical and ecclesiastical crisis into which the Americans had plunged the Anglican Communion. [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 31st, 2008
Adumbrations from the Journal Asked whether any bishops had changed their views about the place of gays and lesbians in the church, Archbishop Aspinall said, “I’m not aware of bishops that have changed their minds. I am aware of bishops who have thanked other bishops with a different view for helping them understand issues and [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 31st, 2008
did admit that, occasionally parishioners have been locked out of their churches in the ACoC and that it is wrong. Watch it on the Michael Coren show tonight at 8:00 pm on CTS. I’ll probably have a loop of that bit playing on St. Hilda’s web site.
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 31st, 2008
From the Globe and Mail The document handed out to bishops outlining the forum’s creation also proposed that the Anglican Communion’s 38 autonomous national and regional churches (called provinces) observe three moratoriums – on blessing same-sex unions, consecrating gay clergy in partnered relationships and poaching clergy and congregations across provincial boundaries who become disaffected from [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 31st, 2008
From the Church Times THE PRESIDING Bishop of the Southern Cone, the Most Revd Greg Venables, said there had been meaningful dialogue at the conference, but felt the real issues had still not been discussed. “We’re still not addressing the basic issue which is whether or not we believe the same things and consider ourselves [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 30th, 2008
this from the Journal slipped by unnoticed. It has taken 16 centuries, but now we are finally there: the alleged leader of a Christian church, rather than turfing out the heretics, thinks a bit more structure might be needed since some of its members are abandoning the Nicene Creed. And no-one seems terribly surprised. Which [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Prayer on Jul 30th, 2008
August 2008 – 1st Friday call to prayer Network prayer calendar – August 2008 Prayer for Lambeth Please join me in praying for our Primate, Archbishop Greg Venables, and the other orthodox bishops at Lambeth. They need wisdom far beyond their own as they navigate subtle (and not-so-subtle) political undercurrents. May they keep their eyes [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 30th, 2008
Live blog of a press conference with Bishop Peter Beckwith at SF You also might catch the interview on AnglicanTV My journey here was roundabout. I was not gong to come for many reasons. Some was expense. What would the investment produce? Is it appropriate to sit and talk to folks who are on a [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 30th, 2008
From Rev. Todd H. Wetzel. The complete article is well worth a read here The Global South, fearing that Lambeth would speak much and yet remain unwilling to discipline a stubbornly willful and recalcitrant Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada, fearing yet a further diminishment of the Christian Witness of the Communion, decided to [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Jul 30th, 2008
Thanks to Marilyn. Read it all here Tune: “Anything You Can Do” from Annie Get Your Gun GAFCON Bishops Anything we do, Is holier than what you do. We can do everything Holier than you. Lambeth Bishops No, you can’t. GAFCON Bishops Yes,we can. Lambeth Bishops No, you can’t. GAFCON Bishops Yes, we [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 29th, 2008
I think Sarah Hey has it about right: At the top of the hill, as people are putting their shoulders to the stationary boulder and pushing with all their might to get the boulder started on its descent, there is a unique window of opportunity to step in and ask for the shoving of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 29th, 2008
of the tightrope and he is still trying to dance. Here ‘What is Lambeth ’08 going to say?’ is the question looming larger all the time as this final week unfolds. But before trying out any thoughts on that, I want to touch on the prior question, a question that could be expressed as ‘Where [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 29th, 2008
This speaks for itself. Read it all here CANTERBURY -While gay and lesbian advocacy groups were given prime locations in the Lambeth Conference Marketplace display halls, two Biblically-grounded sexual healing groups are faced with lower visibility at the conference…… But to make matters worse, Zacchaeus was moved out of its anticipated prime booth location. Organizers [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 29th, 2008
Setting aside for a moment my conviction that the Pastoral Forum will not have the teeth to make any difference to anyone anywhere, we have: On the one hand an insistence that the moratorium on SSBs and the ordaining of actively homosexual bishops is upheld – now, in the future and retroactively. And on the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Jul 28th, 2008
From SF and Ruth Gledhill There have been different interpretations of the sense in which “moratorium” was used in the Windsor Report. Our understanding is that moratorium refers to both future actions and is also retrospective: that is that it requires the cessation of activity. This necessarily applies to practices that may have already been [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 28th, 2008
From the Journal Steve Schuh, head of the Vancouver chapter of the gay and lesbian Anglican group Integrity, experienced what he called the “awkwardness” and pain of the division among bishops. He, along with two speakers representing other theological viewpoints, had been invited by the conference to a self-select session on Human Sexuality and the [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Jul 28th, 2008
From the Church Times blog WHAT is increasingly apparent here from talking privately to bishops is how much language and terminology differ across the Communion, how much misunderstanding can arise over its use and how easy it has been to go with perception and rumour rather than fact. (The Canadian spin machine is now at [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 28th, 2008
From Bishop David Chislett Already some journalists are beginning to realize that while the Lambeth Conference might have a large number of bishops in attendance, those bishops actually represent a SMALL MINORITY of the world’s Anglicans.I have done some informed arithmetic, and the result is surprising…… 39 million (GAFCON) as against 5 million (Lambeth). That [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Jul 27th, 2008
will be a debate – err, dialogue between members of ANiC churches in Niagara and the Diocese of Niagara. And in the red corner – umm, sorry – conversing, we will have: the diocese – Peter Wall and Lynn Corfield; ANiC – Paula Valentine and Ray David Glenn.
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Jul 27th, 2008
I’m all for being a good steward of what God has given us, but the environment is our “core business theologically”? Huh? We certainly do seem to be at sea with our ‘core doctrines’: the ACoC has, of course, intoned at synod that same sex blessings and what the bible says about homosexual activity are [...]
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