Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Oct 22nd, 2008
From the Journal here: The assembly of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) has requested its bishop, Gordon Light, to allow clergy whose conscience permits to bless civilly-married gay couples where at least one party is baptized. The assembly passed the motion when it met Oct. 17 to 19. A notice of a [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 21st, 2008
An update on this post. From the most recent ANiC newsletter, written by Marilyn Jacobson: In a Diocese of BC newsletter article entitled “Power, money and the great debates about sex” the Rev Mary Louise Meadow questions the source of ANiC income, implying that funding is coming from some shady benefactors. The lengthy article which [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Oct 21st, 2008
Back in May, the Anglican Church of Canada announced its seventh consecutive annual budget deficit. In 2007, the church spent $777,000 more than it took in, compared to the previous year’s loss of almost $500,000. Now, five months later, concrete steps to deal with the hemorrhage of cash have been announced. Directors at the General [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Oct 21st, 2008
For those who would like to subject themselves to boring holiday photos, our recent trip to France is captured Here. Click on the thumbnails for more pictures.
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 20th, 2008
Anglican Network in Canada NEWS RELEASE Anglican Church of Canada bishop attempts to prevent Anglican Network in Canada priests from ministering “within the bounds of this Diocese” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 October 2008 The Bishop of Brandon in the Anglican Church of Canada, the Right Reverend Jim Njegovan, sent letters on 16 October 2008 to [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Oct 20th, 2008
Anglican Network in Canada STATEMENT Bishop Donald Harvey responds to attack by Bishop of Brandon FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 October 2008 I am deeply saddened by the uncharitable and grossly inaccurate remarks made by the present Anglican Church of Canada’s Bishop of Brandon in his charge to Synod. To openly attack his predecessor, the much [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 18th, 2008
Anglican Network in Canada – CORRECTION OF MISINFORMATION St Bede’s Anglican Church The Anglican Journal reported 16 October 2008 that the Rev Bettson, rector of the South Parkland parish which once included St Bede’s together with four other parishes, says he “…was not consulted” about St Bede’s general meeting prior to the parishioners voting to [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 18th, 2008
Hat tip to Prairie Words. By far however, the greatest determination and desire of the Bishops assembled in Lambeth was for the Anglican Communion to stay together, recognizing the gifts God has given our Communion and believing “God has many more gifts to give to and through our Communion” to paraphrase the Archbishop. We regretted [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Oct 18th, 2008
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 16th, 2008
The Anglican Journal’s view of reality: Four more congregations have voted to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and to join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). They will fall under the episcopal oversight of Bishop Donald Harvey, moderator of the ANiC, and under the primatial authority of Archbishop Gregory Venables, primate of the Anglican [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 16th, 2008
From Anglican Mainstream Web site: http://www.stjohnsvancouver.org/commentary.php Background Description/History: The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) is an ecclesial (church) body under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, one of 38 jurisdictions in the worldwide Anglican Communion.The ANiC grew out of the Anglican Church in Canada, largely (though not exclusively) because of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 16th, 2008
Manitoba parish votes to join Anglican Network in Canada FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 16 October 2008 The congregation of St Bede’s Anglican Church in Kinosota, Manitoba voted overwhelmingly yesterday, October 15, to come under the episcopal oversight of Bishops Donald Harvey and Malcolm Harding of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) and under the Primatial authority [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 16th, 2008
A letter to the Vancouver Sun from Neale Adams Communication officer Diocese of New Westminster. Contrary to your Oct. 14 front-page story, the Diocese of New Westminster has no desire to have any congregations “kicked out” of church buildings. We want Anglicans to stay in our church and get on with its work. Rubbish: Of [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Oct 16th, 2008
I just received this little tidbit in my email box. It is a post from the Gen2Gen email distribution list, written by the manager of Christian Life and Nurture Ministries of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. The letter begins with a brief description of All Hallow’s Eve and All Saints Day. It goes on to [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Common Cause on Oct 15th, 2008
The link isn’t working – I will do my best to figure out why — admin. …this time, it originates from the diocese of B.C. The full article is here, written by a Rev. Mary Louise Meadow. She begins by quoting an Australian Broadcasting Corp. interview with a Canon Jim Naughton, Communications Director of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Oct 15th, 2008
From the Times Two religions, one church: pro-gay versus strictly biblical The schism over gays that has seen two dioceses vote to “leave” the US Episcopal Church is threatening to split the Church of England. On October 14 parishes were urged to seek alternative oversight from another bishop if their own diocesan bishop expounded “unbiblical” [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 14th, 2008
From the Vancouver Sun METRO VANCOUVER – Three Anglican congregations that split from the Vancouver-area diocese over its support for same-sex blessings have gone to court to avoid being kicked out of their churches. The three congregations – St. John’s Shaughnessy in Vancouver, St. Matthias/St. Luke in Vancouver and St. Matthew’s in Abbotsford – argue [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Oct 13th, 2008
The Diocese of New Westminster has filed its statement of defence against the clergy and trustees at St. Matthew’s Abbotsford, St. Matthias & St. Luke, Vancouver, and St. John’s Shaughnessy. The statement refers to Reverends David Short, Trevor Walters and Simon Chin as “former clergy” but this is, of course, posturing bafflegab erroneous inasmuch as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2008
Please exercise your right to vote. Comments are closed on this for a reason, I don’t want to open a political discussion – just want to remind people to vote.
Posted in Just for Fun on Oct 13th, 2008
Bosco Peters explains a liturgy commonly used in the Anglican Church of Canada. h/t: Joseph
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