…but very very funny! (If you click on the headline before you press play, the video won’t argue with David’s guitar playing).

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An article by Charles Lewis on Christianity in Africa: It is a vision most mainstream Canadian church leaders can only dream of: Sunday mornings in which parishioners dance and sing through three-hour services. Seminaries overflowing and unable to keep up with demand for pastors as the number of the newly baptized rises. The dream is [...]

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(Turn your speakers on!) Hark, the herald-angels sing glory to the new-born King, peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. Joyful, all ye nations, rise, join the triumph of the skies; with the angelic host proclaim, ‘Christ is born in Bethlehem.’ Hark, the herald-angels sing glory to the new-born King. Christ, by [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  24 December 2009 The trustees of four Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) congregations in the greater Vancouver area have filed an appeal of Mr Justice Stephen Kelleher’s BC Supreme Court decision of November 25, 2009, in order to preserve their vibrant Anglican ministries.  The four parishes, St Matthew’s (Abbotsford), St Matthias & [...]

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An interesting article from Rev Dr Ephraim Radner on The Episcopal Church. Not quite on topic for this blog, but what’s sauce for the goose may well be sauce for the gander (you decide). What’s clear from the quote below is that he has given up on TEC as reformable. What is the difficult thing [...]

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Read it all at VOL: By David C. Anderson December 19,2009 This week, the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council (JSC) has been meeting in London, under a veil of some secrecy. A somewhat terse communique has been released, but it only hints at the discussions and arguments that had to have been [...]

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An article in the Anglican Planet on the ANiC synod, by Sue Careless: In 1978 TREVOR WALTERS was ordained ‘a deacon in the Church of God” in magnificent Salisbury Cathedral in England. A year later Charlie Masters was ordained a priest in Christ Church cathedral in Hamilton. In 1985, Stephen Leung was ordained a priest [...]

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The full text is here and the Archbishop of Canterbury introduces it: Anglican Curmudgeon has a perceptive analysis.

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From VOL From the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion Anglican Communion News Service December 18, 2009 The following resolution was passed by the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion meeting in London on 15-18 December, and approved for public distribution. Resolved that, in the light of: 1. The recent episcopal nomination in the Diocese [...]

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An interesting commentary on the fall of TEC and corresponding rise of the ACNA from WorldMag: According to numbers released in December by the Episcopal Church, that denomination’s membership dropped by 3 percent in 2008. That doesn’t sound like much, but I am a bit of a demographics junkie, plus I researched and examined a [...]

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From BC Local News Churches involved in a battle with the Diocese of New Westminster over same-sex blessings have not yet decided whether to appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that ruled against them. The four churches, including St. Matthew’s Anglican in Abbotsford, have until Dec. 29 to launch an appeal. Representatives met Monday to [...]

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Kept meaning to post this – better late than never…. In the name of God, grateful for the gracious guidance of the Holy Spirit and the leadership of the Most Reverend Robert Duncan, Archbishop and Primate, the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) held its first annual meeting in Toronto, Canada [...]

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From the ANiC Newsletter: ANiC chancellor Cheryl Chang has written to the four Vancouver-area churches involved in the recent court proceeding reporting on a meeting held November 30 with the leaders of the four churches and their legal counsel. She says that while there are clear grounds for appeal, no decision has been made. “There [...]

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Negotiations on building sharing between three of the Niagara ANiC parishes and the Diocese of Niagara have been completed, giving the Diocese exclusive use of St. George’s Lowville and ANiC exclusive use of St. Hilda’s Oakville and Good Shepherd St. Catharines. This new sharing arrangement will remain in place until the building ownership is settled.

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From BC Local News: Anglican Church parish in Parksville expected to vote in support of same-sex marriage. A parish council vote December 10 will affirm a local congregation’s support for the blessing of same-sex marital unions within the Anglican Church of Canada. That according to Andrew Twiddy, reverend for the parish of St. Anne and [...]

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From here. The election of Mary Glasspool by the Diocese of Los Angeles as suffragan bishop elect raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole. The process of selection however is only part complete. The election has to be [...]

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From AP: RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected the second openly gay bishop in the national church and the world Anglican fellowship. The Rev. Mary Glasspool of Baltimore won election as assistant bishop in Los Angeles in voting Saturday. The first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, [...]

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Our David made the voting list for the Canadian Blog awards. Nice work, David!

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From here. The Anglican Church League commends the leadership of the Anglican Network in Canada on its godly response to the decision of the B.C. Supreme Court. We remain committed to supporting the faithful men and women of the four congregations (St John’s Shaughnessy, St Matthew’s Abbotsford, St Matthias & St Luke West 49th Vancouver, [...]

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