Posted in Prayer on Nov 29th, 2008
Via email, from the ANiC office: Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi (Jos, Nigeria) requests urgent prayer. He reports that Christians in Jos (a large city in Nigeria) “…are being attacked by Muslims. Churches have been burnt; no exact figures of casualties yet. We need prayer to stay the hand of bloodshed, destruction, violence and death. Pray for [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Communion Alliance, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Essentials, Anglican Network in Canada on Nov 29th, 2008
I post this article in full as I think it may add some clarity to the current debate within ‘conservative’ Anglicanism. Written by: The Rev. Charles D. Alley, Ph.D. Friday, November 28th, 2008 The terms “inside and outside strategies” have been bantered about the blogosphere and the print media with a bit of abandon. Such [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Essentials on Nov 28th, 2008
From the Journal About 50 conservative Anglican leaders, including eight young theological students, gathered in Toronto for a one-day consultation on Nov. 25 and emerged with a determination to remain within the Anglican Church of Canada. They came from 16 dioceses across the country. Rev. Brett Cane of St. Aidan’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg is [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Nov 26th, 2008
From Episcopal Life Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was among those attending the JSC meeting, which was held behind closed doors at the Anglican Communion Office and Lambeth Palace in London. She noted that a November 26 report in The Times of London newspaper, that suggested the JSC had discussed plans to discipline the Anglican [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Nov 26th, 2008
Check out this link if you are interested in the details behind the creation of a new Anglican province in North America (it’s a fairly extensive text).
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Nov 25th, 2008
From the Times A conservative province in the Anglican church faces “punishment” this week for offering a safe haven to conservatives. Senior bishops and laity meeting in London are to consider suspending the Anglican church in South America for taking rebel US dioceses under its wing. The move will bring the Anglican Communion closer to [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Nov 25th, 2008
A letter to the Windsor Star in response to this article. Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Re: Legal fight brews over St. Aidan’s, Nov. 19. It was not a group of people who left St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, but rather it was a unanimous vote of the vestry. The vestry is the corporation vested by [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Communion Alliance, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Nov 24th, 2008
Below is a response to Dr Radner’s piece A New “Province” in North America: Neither the Only Nor the Right Answer for the Communion by Dean Munday. While the focus of the response is on TEC, it is equally applicable to us north of the border. The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner has written a piece [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Nov 23rd, 2008
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Posted in Anglican Essentials on Nov 23rd, 2008
We thought it might be a good idea here at the AEC Blog if from time to time we featured stories and testimonies from our churches (e.g. here) – things that are uplifting and inspiring and would give us a good counterbalance and perspective to some of the other things that are going on in [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Nov 21st, 2008
I’m sorry, I had to do it. No, I’m not sorry. The “Friday Afternoon Palate Cleanser” at Stand Firm was just too darn funny not to share with you.
Posted in Just for Fun on Nov 19th, 2008
Those of a shameless quality would probably note the occasion when a blog had attracted a quarter of a million unique visitors. Never fear, dear reader, I am cut from a nobler cloth and such a crass thought would never cross my mind!
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Nov 19th, 2008
To follow on from the post that the Diocese of Rupert’s Land had passed a SSB motion, here is the response from Bishop Don Phillips (received by email). Motion B9 – passed by 57.5% in the laity and 58.1% in the clergy That this Synod, upon the passage by General Synod of an enabling doctrinal [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion Alliance on Nov 19th, 2008
We have reported on this before, but I missed the italicized bit. Anglican Essentials Federation Consultation Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:30 – 4:30 p.m. Wycliffe College, 5 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto The Anglican Essentials Federation is calling together orthodox leaders within the Anglican Church of Canada to a consultation to be held at Wycliffe College, Toronto, [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Nov 19th, 2008
David Ould has written an insightful post about what it means to preach. Read it over at Stand Firm.
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Nov 18th, 2008
From The Windsor Star The battle over scripture is escalating between two factions of the Anglican Church, with each claiming ownership of St. Aidan’s on Wyandotte Street East. Rev. Tom Carman represents the 109 church members who voted Sept. 28 to break away from the Huron diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada and join [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Nov 18th, 2008
From the Journal News of a plan to create a new North American Anglican province that would be defined by conservative theology rather than a geographic location may have been greeted with enthusiasm by delegates at the Anglican Network in Canada’s first synod last week, but Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Nov 17th, 2008
Received by email and from here. A Message to the Church in the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land Greetings in the name of the risen and ascended Lord, whose return in glory we await. We , the Bishops of the Province of Rupert’s Land returned from the Lambeth Conference, profoundly moved by our encounter with [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Nov 17th, 2008
Read it all in the Journal. I sat with Leigh Anne at the media table. It was her first day on the job at the Journal. I think this is a reasonably balanced article. Leigh Anne Williams staff writer Nov 17, 2008 Burlington, Ont. Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) representatives are working with American colleagues [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Nov 17th, 2008
Read it all at the ACN WHEATON, IL, Nov. 17—Leaders of the Common Cause Partnership, a federation of more than 100,000 Anglican Christians in North America, will release to the public on the evening of Dec. 3 the draft constitution of an emerging Anglican Church in North America, formally subscribe to the Jerusalem Declaration of [...]
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