Posted in Anglican Communion on Dec 29th, 2010
From the Church Times: A BISHOP in the Church of Nigeria has urged Primates from the Global South not to boycott the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin in January. Writing in the Church Times today, the Bishop of Kaduna, Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, who was a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor report, pleads [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Communion Alliance on Dec 3rd, 2010
From the Anglican Communion Alliance: The Anglican Communion Alliance welcomes much that is written in the recent Oxford Statement from the GAFCON movement and agree with them “that there are many within the Anglican Communion who have not ‘bowed the knee’ to secular liberalism and who are determined to stay true to the ‘faith once [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Network in Canada on Nov 30th, 2010
Taken from here. Last week National Post columnist Ian Hunter predicted a bleak future for the Church of England and Anglicanism in general. Prof. Hunter, a convert to Catholicism, clearly has little love for the Anglican Church. But his own disappointments with the church that he fled may be clouding his vision. He notes that [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Nov 25th, 2010
From here: First published in The Church of England Newspaper. The Archbishop of Canterbury has rejected Africa’s call to suspend the Dublin primates meeting, a spokesman for Dr. Rowan Williams’ tells The Church of England Newspaper, and the meeting will go on as scheduled. On Nov 17 Lambeth Palace confirmed that Dr. Williams had received [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Nov 24th, 2010
Find it all here. What might be of particular interest….. 5. For the sake of Christ and of His Gospel we can no longer maintain the illusion of normalcy and so we join with other Primates from the Global South in declaring that we will not be present at the next Primates’ meeting to be [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Nov 11th, 2010
From here. The Archbishop of Canterbury has proposed suspending the Primates Meeting—the fourth ‘instrument of unity’ in the Anglican Communion—in favour of holding multiple small group gatherings of like minded archbishops. In a letter to the primates dated Oct 7, Dr. Rowan Williams suggested that given the “number of difficult conversations” and the threat of [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Nov 5th, 2010
From ACNS: The tenth Synod of the Province of the Southern Cone of America, meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1-5 November, 2010, has elected Bishop Hector “Tito” Zavala of Chile as its next Primate replacing Bishop Gregory Venables. Bishop Zavala becomes the province’s first Primate of Chilean extraction. The role of Primate is a [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Oct 20th, 2010
Refreshing clarity from Archbishop Greg Venables:
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Oct 10th, 2010
From the ACI. When the turmoil surrounding Gene Robinson’s consent and consecration arose in 2003, everyone knew that the Anglican Communion was in for some rough times. But even more pessimistic observers believed that these times would be relatively limited, and that somehow the Communion would muddle towards some stabilizing resolution. Few could have imagined [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Sep 23rd, 2010
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Sep 14th, 2010
Something from here, veracity of the quoted source unknown. The process that will end in the Anglican Church splitting up has begun with the Canterbury – the headquarters of the church – disengaging itself from Africa, Asia and Australia. African Anglicans are reportedly taking a lead role by mobilising their colleagues in Asia, South America [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Sep 14th, 2010
Go see the timeline over at SF – lots of formatting and links not easily reproducable here.
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 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 [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Jul 21st, 2010
Back to the boring Anglican matters, I thought it might be worth posting excerpts from the recent ACI article “Five things that should be done now”. Read the whole thing here. We have written often about the Anglican Consultative Council and its Standing Committee over the last year. After the chaotic session in Jamaica in [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 23rd, 2010
Read it all here: ANiC update – 23 April 2010 Official statement – The Global South Encounter in Singapore (GSE4) has released its official communiqué at the conclusion of its meeting. It includes: • A condemnation of the continued defiance of the clear teaching of Scripture by the Anglican Church of Canada and the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 23rd, 2010
Read it all here: St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, 19th – 23rd April 2010 1. The Fourth Anglican South to South Encounter took place in Singapore from April 19th through April 23rd, 2010. The theme for this encounter was: “The Gospel of Jesus Christ – Covenant for the People; Light for the Nations.” We marveled at [...]
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