Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on May 15th, 2009
From Canadian Christianity: ANGLICANS in the Diocese of New Westminster are scheduled to go to court May 23 [it’s actually May 25] in a case that could determine the shape of Canadian Anglicanism. At stake is the ownership of four church buildings, but the case could set a precedent that would affect the ownership of [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on May 15th, 2009
From the latest ANiC Newsletter: Day of Praise Bishop Donald Harvey and Executive Archdeacon Charlie Masters have proclaimed an ANiC Day of Praise for May 22. Earlier this year, following the Biblical model, we held a Day of Prayer and Fasting. Now, again following the example of 2Chronicles 20, we will join together in a [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on May 13th, 2009
The Diocese of Nova Scotia and PEI has cut the position of Chaplain at University of King’s College, Halifax, to half-time. The current chaplain is The Rev Dr Gary Thorne, former rector of St George’s Round Church and a leading Anglican theologian. Atlantic Canada Frank (who else?) brings the sad news. A Big, Pointy Hat [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on May 13th, 2009
If you want to know what’s really going in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Canada Frank is must reading. Here’s the latest, from Frank 559 (dated 26 May). Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Pass The Collection Plates! Anglican parishioners at St. Margaret’s of Scotland, St. Mark’s, St. Matthais’ and St. Phillip’s, have [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion on May 13th, 2009
A little more on the ACoC perspective regarding the ACC meeting (don’t you just love acronyms?). I can only observe that there appear to have been two different meetings here, one that the ‘liberals’ attended, and the other one that the ‘conservatives’ attended. “We go home with hope,” said Suzanne Lawson, lay delegate of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 12th, 2009
From the Journal: The 14th Anglican Consultative Council has not “given evidence of any belief” that Anglicans worldwide “have no future together,” said the Archbishop of Canterbury, even as he warned that it would be “inevitable” that the Anglican Communion could turn into a “much more dispersed association” or federation if all member churches do [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on May 11th, 2009
From here: 1. The Council of General Synod considered the work that has been done in fulfillment of the resolutions of General Synod 2007 regarding sexuality and reached consensus that this is not the time to ask General Synod to amend the marriage canon to allow for the marriage of same-sex couples. 2. In light [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 11th, 2009
Read it all here: Friday’s session of the Anglican Consultative Council is an embarrassment to Anglicans everywhere, and a sad display of procedural confusion. Members were given complex resolutions right before the vote without sufficient time to study them and understand their consequences. Resolutions that had been distributed earlier were replaced by resolutions drafted by [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 8th, 2009
If you’re confused as to what happened today at the ACC, this report provides some excellent clarification: What happened today with the Anglican Covenant and the Windsor Continuation Group(WCG) Report? I have just spent all day observing ACC-14′s decisionmaking plenary sessions here in Kingston, Jamaica. I would like to offer several observations: The failure to [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 8th, 2009
From the Journal: Voting 33 against, 32 in favour, and 1 abstention, the ACC defeated an amendment introduced by Archbishop Mouneer Anis, primate of Jerusalem and the Middle East, to include a call for a moratorium on litigation, which he said had been requested by the primates’ meeting in Dar es Salaam in 2007. Passionate [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 8th, 2009
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 8th, 2009
From here: May 8, 2009 Standing Committee President responds to lawsuit against the diocese To the clergy and people of the diocese: On April 14, 2009, the newly formed diocese of Fort Worth, along with representatives of The Episcopal Church (TEC), filed a lawsuit in a Tarrant Count, Texas, court. The suit names Bishop Iker [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 8th, 2009
….having read this article about something called a ‘listening process’, I tried to put myself in the shoes of a normal person. As an Anglican this is a hard thing to do, granted, but I think I got there. Once there, I found it hard to escape the conclusion that we are as a body [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on May 8th, 2009
Just in time for the centenary of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island plans to bulldoze historic properties around the cathedral. Atlantic Canada Frank has the news. Anglican news for Anglicans By Rev. Dee Structo The Anglican Diocese plans to lay down its hymn books and [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on May 8th, 2009
The Rev David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, has briefly outlined four points regarding the Listening Process on the issue of same-sex blessings. Although one point refers specifically to the situation in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, most of what he writes is of more general interest. Check [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 7th, 2009
The ACC firmly resist the idea of signing on to the Covenant anytime before hell develops an icy skin. Bishop Gregory Cameron, former deputy secretary general of the Anglican Communion and secretary to the Covenant Design Group said he detects that many delegates to the 14th Anglican Consultative Council meeting here would like a “tighter [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 7th, 2009
An important article on Jamaican machinations by Chris Sugden : The Lambeth centre of the Anglican Communion is experienced as exercising colonial power. How else can the continued resistance of the Anglican Communion instruments to carrying out the decisions of the Primates Meeting over the last five years, leading to the acknowledged dominance of the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 7th, 2009
A very interesting report; read it all here and here: The Windsor Continuation Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury and ACC-14 sets out nine recommendations that its authors felt would best deal with the present crisis in the Anglican Communion. Of the nine recommendations set forward, none of them pertain to the cessation of litigation [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 5th, 2009
An interesting report on the Jamaica ACC meeting from the Journal, read it all here: In his speech, Archbishop Williams also set the tone for the discussion on moratoria, saying, “To talk about moratoria is to allow that to be on the table without prejudging where we finally end up, which may or may not [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on May 5th, 2009
Read it all here: Canon Kearon stated that Rev Ashey was not qualified as his membership of the Church of Uganda was as a result of a cross-border intervention by the Church of Uganda in the United States, a practice which had been consistently disapproved of by the instruments of communion since 2004. So far [...]
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