Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 22nd, 2009
OPENING ADDRESSGiven by the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Archbishop-designate, at the Inaugural Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America during the Holy Eucharist on 22 June, A.D. 2009, the Feast of St. Alban, Anglican Proto-Martyr (First English Martyr). God’s Time The Lord has a way of timing things. How remarkable that we should [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 22nd, 2009
NEWS: The Archbishop of Canterbury has sent Bishop Santosh Marray (retired bishop of the Seychelles) as his pastoral visitor to the ACNA assembly.
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 22nd, 2009
From here. The Anglican Church in North America Provincial Council has endorsed the Anglican Covenant and expressed solidarity with the Communion Partners. The Covenant is a four-part document that outlines the basics of the Christian faith as Anglicans have historically understood and practiced it. It also provides for accountability among Communion members. The Covenant was [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 22nd, 2009
Hi folks, I tried to embed the live stream of the ACNA assembly – it worked, but it also messed up the formatting on all the posts on the blog, and code illiterate that I am, I couldn’t fix it. So you will just have to follow this link if you want to watch it. [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 22nd, 2009
FYI for those who are confused about who’s who and what’s what – here’s a link to Anglican Acronyms. It’s a little dated, but should give you most of what you need (and more, besides). The only thing that is missing is what we’re about this week – ACNA, Anglican Church in North America. For [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 22nd, 2009
Time for a few pre-ACNA pictures….. St Vincent’s Inside…. Outside… Hey, looks like I ‘made it’ Oh, yes, I did indeed So, time to get down to work. They are truly a bunch of slavedrivers, here. Lastly, say ‘hi’ to Marilyn (she says I’m mean)
Posted in Anglican Communion Alliance, Anglican Essentials on Jun 22nd, 2009
This appears to be one manifestation of the “fresh wind … blowing through” Anglican Essentials Federation. Essentials Nova Scotia invites all interested to a Special Meeting at St George’s (Round Church), Halifax Friday July 10th 7 PM This meeting will include an update on Essentials nationally, with special guests, the Rev. Dr. Murray Henderson and [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 21st, 2009
From ANiC Communications, via email: My dear ANiC Sisters and Brothers, It is my joy to report on a process that was set in motion at our first synod in November 2008. At that synod, Bishop Malcolm and I were entrusted with the task of identifying three faithful leaders to be consecrated as bishops in [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 18th, 2009
The ACNA Inagural Assembly has a dedicated website, and it looks like they might be webcasting some of the sessions. The link is here. Correction from the comments: They hope to be webcasting almost all of the sessions!
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jun 17th, 2009
The Rev. David Phillips, Rector of the Parishes of Petite Riviere and New Dublin, Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, has released his presentation to the diocesan listening process on human sexuality. His consideration of human sexuality and same-sex attraction is full of wisdom, IMHO, and deserves to be taken seriously by all [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 15th, 2009
Counsel for the diocese continued their closing argument, followed, in the mid-afternoon, by counsel for the ANiC parishes offering a partial reply to the end of the day and submitting a more complete written reply by the following Monday morning. Counsel for the diocese George Macintosh, Q.C. began the day by handing up to the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Jun 15th, 2009
From The American Anglican Council The next stage of the Anglican Communion’s attempt to resolve its differences over theology, sexuality and the authority of scripture will involve more “listening processes,” but this time those processes will be paid for by a retired Episcopal priest who advocates same-sex blessings. The money given by the Episcopal priest [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 13th, 2009
via email: Dear Friends, I apologize for the delay in sending the final day’s report from the Trial. Until the final day, I had the benefit of written copies of the argument that allowed me to turn to Tabs, pages and paragraphs being referred to at trial, in order to follow the argument more closely, [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Jun 13th, 2009
There’s some good news to share with you (you may differ on the adjective of course) . The ACNA Inaugural Assembly takes place in Texas Monday June 22nd to Thursday June 25th, and an Essentials blogger (namely, yours truly) will be there to cover it. There’ll be plenty of coverage elsewhere of course, including on [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 12th, 2009
The ACNA web site has a lot of useful and interesting information. Recently posted items include: Some Committee and Task Force Appointments, including familiar names from Canada; The Provisional Constitution of the ACNA; Comments on the Draft Constitution by the Governance Task Force – including Cheryl Chang; A perspective on the Constitution from Bishop Bob [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 11th, 2009
Stanley Martin began the morning discussing the separate legal case with respect to the Chun Bequest. Dr. Daphne Chun died in 1992 and left a property in Hong Kong “to the building fund of the Church of the Good Shepherd”. The property was sold and the funds set aside until they could purchase a new [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 10th, 2009
Stanley Martin began the day with a discussion on the Anglican Context of this case to help Mr. Justice Kelleher understand that the members of the ANiC parishes are Anglicans and that we are not asking the court to find that the diocese and bishop are not Anglicans. He summarized the parishes’ submissions. 1. The [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 9th, 2009
Day 8 – ANiC Parishes Closing Argument – June 8, 2009 The morning began with counsel for the parishes, Geoff Cowper, QC, explaining to Mr Justice Kelleher that he expected presentation of his argument to be two full days. Two volumes of a “Statement of Facts” and “Written Argument of the Plaintiffs”, together with a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2009
Happy 40th birthday, Peter!
Posted in Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Jun 5th, 2009
An article worth reading from Spread: H/T VOL Court cases between orthodox parishes and revisionist dioceses have, sadly, become something of a commonplace in North America, but the current court battle in the Supreme Court of British Columbia between four Anglican Network in Canada parishes, including St John’s Shaughnessy, and the Anglican Church of Canada’s [...]
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