Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 26th, 2008
From the Telegraph Liberals will be warned that they face being expelled from the heart of Anglicanism unless they respect the ban, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. The American church caused deep divisions between conservatives and liberals when it consecrated Gene Robinson as the first openly homosexual Anglican bishop in 2003. There have been reports [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 26th, 2008
Canon John Rees, one of the Church of England’s top canon lawyers. Video here. Very English, mildy amusing. Does it mean anything? Shouldn’t think so.
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 26th, 2008
At least some people stick by their principles. From the Journal Robinson will not be asked to resign by presiding bishop U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Saturday said it would “not be in my purview” to ask Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, to resign as suggested by the primate of [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 26th, 2008
A short article from SF reminded me of a similar experience with Niagara’s Bishop Michael Bird. Bishop Michael was preaching in a local church when, during a Q&A period, someone asked him what his personal beliefs were regarding the Christian faith. His answer was that his belief was personal and, therefore, not something he wished [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 26th, 2008
From SF here and here. This includes some interesting sections on property. This morning Canon Lawyer, John Reece passed out copies of a 112 page booklet not including endnotes and bibliography entitled, “The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion” The book seeks to distill certain principles of canon law [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jul 25th, 2008
From the announcements section of the bulletin of The Anglican Parish of St. Mary The Virgin, St. John’s, Newfoundland. LAY RELINQUISHMENTS Lay people who have also left the Anglican Church of Canada are asked to indicate their intentions to the Bishop who will maintain a register for future information. It seems clear to us that [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Jul 25th, 2008
From the Journal The Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) has put before the Lambeth Conference of bishops here a proposal to set up an Anglican Faith and Order Commission that could “give guidance on the ecclesiological issues” raised by the current “crisis” in the Anglican Communion – the focus on human sexuality……. Asked how the Lambeth [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jul 25th, 2008
This video is from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, but it applies equally to Canada
Posted in Anglican Communion on Jul 25th, 2008
Hard to miss the irony. Here we have a bunch of people dressed up in purple robes and strange hats, taking time off from their $8 million conference to demand that governments give more money to the poor. Most of the 670 Anglican bishops attending the Lambeth Conference, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Network in Canada on Jul 25th, 2008
Here It is hard to overestimate Packer’s impact on evangelical Christianity. The graciousness he afforded me to sit on a couch and ask him questions for more than an hour was humbling and helpful. He is very clear minded at age eighty-two and he remains incredibly conversant, insightful, and witty. Impressively, his words are impeccably [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 25th, 2008
From VOL A rival Global South movement is being set up here in Canterbury in an attempt to divide and conquer the Global South movement by encouraging a Lambeth compliant “Communion Partners” movement in an effort to isolate mainstream evangelical and Anglo-Catholics who number 40 million of the 55 million church-going Anglicans throughout the world.
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 24th, 2008
the juggernaut: A US bishop yesterday accused his own church of manipulating the Lambeth summit by providing its 125 representatives with briefing notes explaining how to promote liberal attitudes towards gay clergy. The US Episcopal church has the largest presence at Lambeth, a once-a-decade gathering of the world’s Anglican bishops in Canterbury, and has provided [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Jul 24th, 2008
I am sick of being placed in the category of “traditionalist”. Here are some examples, all from the same news article: “persecuting clergy who wanted to stick to a traditionalist line”; “distorting traditional Anglican beliefs”; “how much influence a powerful traditionalist lobby could have inside the Communion”. Tradition has nothing to do with it; the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Jul 24th, 2008
From the Anglican Communion Network and the Anglican Coalition in Canada The Common Cause Partnership leaders issued a statement today welcoming the Jerusalem Declaration and the statement on the Global Anglican Future and pledging to move forward with the work of Anglican unity in North America. We, as the Bishops and elected leaders of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 24th, 2008
From the Herald Tribune For one thing, the vast majority of Anglicans live in Africa. Philip Jenkins and others have written about the “typical” modern Christian being a young woman of color living in the global south. “If we want to visualize a typical contemporary Christian, we should think of a woman living in a [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 23rd, 2008
At AM The Bishop of Rochester Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, one of just two bishops in the Church of England to boycott the Lambeth Conference entirely, insisted today that he is being true to biblical authority. Explaining a decision that he admits has been painful for a man who sought refuge in Britain from persecution, and [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 23rd, 2008
Peter Hitchens – brother of that other Hitchens bloke – deserves to be invited to speak…. sorry, have conversation at Lambeth. More here It is all very well going on about Winston Churchill, but Archbishop Rowan Williams is a figure much more representative of modern Britain. This prelate whimpered last week that Christianity was ‘offensive’ [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 23rd, 2008
Or is it a numbers game? From VOL A real dust up occurred at a press conference, yesterday, when Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, the bishop’s press officer was challenged about why a list of all the bishops could not be handed out to the press. He pleaded “privacy and security” issues, but the security issue was [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jul 23rd, 2008
Here The gay press people and gay advocates are here en masse. Gene Robinson is on the campus of this Conference from dawn to dusk, with events planned every evening – last evening he spoke at the Law School – and many of these sessions are by invitation only. There is no secret that they [...]
Posted in Prayer on Jul 22nd, 2008
From Lent and Beyond The Sudanese bishops, and their new Primate, the Most Reverend Dr. Daniel Deng Bul have created huge waves at Lambeth by calling for the resignation of bishop Gene Robinson, as the press coverage today demonstrates…… As I read this news and think about the stand taken by the Sudanese bishops, I’m [...]
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