Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Aug 31st, 2010
From the Diocese of New West. As David points out, worship of what!? We know what you mean. We think. Diocesan-led worship begins at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church of Canada worship at St. Matthew’s Abbotsford began again on Sunday, August 29th at 8am. The diocesan-led service was a said eucharist from the Book of Alternative [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Aug 28th, 2010
Received via email: August letter to Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev. Ian Earnest, Chairman of CAPA (Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa), apologized for “embarrassing” the Church of Uganda when CAPA received a $25,000 grant from Trinity Grants (USA) for the All Africa Bishops Conference taking place [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Aug 27th, 2010
From the Abbotsford News: St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Abbotsford has backed off on its plans to apply for a stay on a court ruling that the Diocese of New Westminster hold a service there on Sunday (Aug. 29). The church, which is among four parishes in a legal battle with the diocese over same-sex [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Aug 26th, 2010
Archbishop Rowan Williams has been asked to sort things out by African bishops. I’m guessing that the Archbishop of Canterbury is wishing he hadn’t attended the conference – “no more diplomacy” was never his forte. From CNN: Conservative Anglican bishops pressed the head of the worldwide church over homosexuality at a conference this week in [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Aug 26th, 2010
The parallels here are interesting… Hundreds of congregations have held votes on leaving the denomination. Others have cut off funding to the national church. Bishops in Africa have condemned the actions taken by their North American counterparts. And this week disaffected members are gathering to found a new breakaway denomination. You would be forgiven for [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Aug 24th, 2010
From here: The Anglican church in the West no longer adheres to the word of God, African bishops said Tuesday at a continental conference attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Rowan Williams, the head of the world-wide Anglican Communion, has been criticised by some African church leaders for his tolerant stance on homosexuality. “Today, the [...]
Posted in Anglican Church in North America on Aug 24th, 2010
It’s a shame it has to be about this: (CNN) — A private religious school in Texas has denied admission to the daughter of a lesbian couple who wanted to enroll the child in preschool, citing its “clear teaching of the Christian faith” for the refusal. In a statement e-mailed to CNN sister network HLN, [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Aug 19th, 2010
Anglican Network in Canada NEWS RELEASE 19 August 2010Archbishop John Chew Hiang Chea – Primate of the Anglican Province of Southeast Asia, Bishop of Singapore and Chairman of the Global South Primates Steering Committee – will be in Vancouver September 18-19 for a weekend of special gatherings at the Anglican Network Church of the Good [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Aug 19th, 2010
No nuances here: The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, yesterday said the Anglican Church today faces many challenges which have made it dysfunctional. “What I can tell you is that the Anglican Church is very broken,” Bishop Orombi said. “It (church) has been torn at its deepest level, and it is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 17th, 2010
Clark used to attend St. Hilda’s occasionally. He was a brilliant theologian and a very humble man: if asked a question, he had a tendency to say “what do you think?” – and listen to the answer. He will be greatly missed. From here: Clark Pinnock Passes on to Glory One of the more influential [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Aug 16th, 2010
From Abbotsford News: By Vikki Hopes – Abbotsford News Published: August 16, 2010 2:00 PM St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Abbotsford and three Vancouver parishes have been ordered to pay about $120,000 in court costs to the Diocese of New Westminster. Justice Stephen Kelleher issued the ruling in the Supreme Court of B.C., as part [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Aug 16th, 2010
From Anglican Mainstream: By Charles Raven On Sunday 15th August, Bishop Trevor Walters, Area Bishop (West Canada), preached at two churches in Worcestershire. In the morning he visited the congregation at Christ Church Wyre Forest, an ‘extra mural’ Anglican church plant near Kidderminster and then went on to preach at the parish church of Christ [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Aug 16th, 2010
From here: (To be read in all ANiC Congregations on August 15, 2010 – or at the first convenient time thereafter) Greetings in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ! As our ANiC family continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to communicate effectively (and economically) with one another. This is hardly [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Aug 13th, 2010
Saturday, Aug. 14, at Nanoose Place. From here: It’s a garage sale, but everything’s free. “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Aug 12th, 2010
To counteract the vile rumours of litigation that nasty cruel people will keep spreading and to prove that it is truly warm and cuddly, the Diocese of Niagara has embarked on a campaign of gratuitous hugging. It makes me tingle all over just to watch it:
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Aug 11th, 2010
Might be worth checking out this article, as this could be the beginning of the development of a true Anglican Covenant, that the majority of the Communion would approve. The AAC summarise it as follows: Revision 1: Strengthens the historic and normative role of the Anglican Formularies (page 4) by restoring the Nassau Draft’s specific [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Aug 8th, 2010
From here. There seems to be quite a pattern of lawlessness developing, doesn’t there? First published in The Church of England Newspaper. The Anglican Consultative Council failed to follow its rules in soliciting approval for its new constitution, critics of the London-based ‘instrument of communion’ tell The Church of England Newspaper. Some provinces were never [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Aug 5th, 2010
From the Journal: A proposal to separate The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the U.S. from the rest of the Anglican Communion has been rejected by the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion in London. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, told the Anglican Journal that he finds this decision “encouraging” and [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Aug 3rd, 2010
Carrying on from a previous post, there is more news on the self-styled “Standing Committee” that purports to speak for the Anglican Communion. There’s a certain slant to this body, as can be seen from their December 2009 minutes. Recent Developments in the Anglican Communion Discussion began with a review of developments in the Communion [...]
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