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From MCJ ShamCon is over for another ten years so conservative Anglicans can get back to the sport at which they’ve become the world’s acknowledged grandmasters.  Waiting for the Next Big Anglican EventTM which will Decide Everything Once And For All.  And if Dr. Williams is to be believed, that Next Big Anglican EventTM will [...]

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From the letters page ofThe Times: Sir, The Bishop of Durham in his articulate letter (Aug 9) regarding the leaking of the Williams letters makes some useful clarifications and I am grateful for his statements regarding Dr Williams’s closing address at the Lambeth Conference. As for why I decided to offer his letters to the [...]

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This, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury, is what Lambeth accomplished (from The Living Church): Archbishop Williams listed three accomplishments for the 20-day Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in Canterbury, England: 1. Bishops proved they could speak to each other respectfully and prayerfully. 2. They expressed a strong commitment to remain unified. 3. The Millennium [...]

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Read it all Here August 11, 2008 My dear members of our ANiC family, For the past three weeks, I have been combing the Internet for news from Lambeth.  And there has been no lack of it.  The blogs and (especially UK) media have been full of information.  Making sense of all that information, however, [...]

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Read it all Here Message from Bishop Don In his letter to members, Bishop Don said, I was struck by the marked contrast between what I was hearing from Lambeth and what I experienced at the GAFCon meeting only a few weeks earlier in Jerusalem.  The ambiguity and confusion created by Lambeth is in stark [...]

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here it is, from the Telegraph The conservative Anglican diocese of Forth Worth, Texas, is in talks with the Roman Catholic Church about converting en masse, it has been revealed. It’s early days yet, but the conservative Anglo-Catholic clergy of the diocese – which excludes women priests – have had enough of the Anglican “Communion”. [...]

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is a devotional I read. Today’s devotional is below and I thought it might encourage ANiC and parishes and members (and the faithful remnant still in the ACoC) to continue to persevere in the face of possible difficulties and persecution. Wed 13 Aug What’s the point? For reading & meditation – Proverbs 21:1–15 ‘The plans [...]

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George Conger interviewed by Albert Mohler Here Mohler: You also have bishops who would just as clearly make absolutely transparent their opposition to homosexuality based upon the clear teachings of scripture. So I ask you to fast forward to 2018. Let’s imagine the Anglican Communion meeting together, the bishops in the Lambeth Conference of 2018, [...]

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At last,  musical – well, sort of – appreciation. Here

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…is worth taking a look at just for the headline.

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The video is back Here. Be patient, it doesn’t really start until about 3 minutes in and there are blank screens where the commercials would normally be. Also, if you want to download and save the video, a medium quality (130MB) Divx version is Here. Right click and select ‘Save Target As’ for IE or [...]

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From here, with ANiC input: ANGLICANS were divided on whether the 2008 Lambeth Conference had fostered a sense of unity or deepened an existing schism, following the conclusion of the conference, which brings together Anglican bishops from around the world every ten years, last Sunday. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church [...]

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Answer: The Anglican Church. Read it all here “We are going back to first principles” Archbishop David Moxon of New Zealand—the chairman of the conference’s Bible studies programme, said. The conflicting views of the morality of homosexual behavior held by the bishops at Lambeth each contained a kernel of truth, and it was up to [...]

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Two interesting blog posts on Lambeth can be found at Musings from the Muse here and here.

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By now you may have read about the letters Archbishop Rowan wrote 8 years ago where he says, among other things, “I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had about [...]

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The likelihood of the North American provinces being held to account seems to be diminishing rapidly; instead, they will be settling the account. From the Telegraph  The head of the Anglican church in America – the richest province in the Communion – also disclosed that it has been asked to “foot the bill” and claimed [...]

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From The Times August 8, 2008 Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent A split in the Anglican Church was inevitable, a leading conservative cleric said last night as he attacked Rowan Williams’s belief that gay relationships could be “comparable to marriage”. After a successful Lambeth Conference for the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he avoided schism over the [...]

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From Canadian Christianity Don Harvey, a bishop with the Anglican Network in Canada, which has split from the Anglican Church of Canada and aligned itself with Anglicans from Africa and South America, said, “Division has already taken place.” “What do you need to see happen before you say we are divided?” Harvey asked, noting that [...]

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Here Many of our bishops joined with bishops from the United States and other parts of the Communion to express a desire to exercise extreme caution in terms of any action in the direction of the proposed Covenant and Pastoral Forum.  Our Primate called for an opportunity for the conference to hear more directly from [...]

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