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 [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 22nd, 2010
A perceptive article from Charles Raven. Read it all here: Although not attended by great fanfare and ceremony, something quite remarkable seems to be happening in Singapore at the fourth Global South to South Encounter. We are seeing the emergence of a global Anglicanism of substance, displacing the shadow Anglicanism of institutional pragmatism. Institutions which [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 20th, 2010
Some refreshing clarity. From the Christian Post: A historic gathering of worldwide Anglican leaders started yesterday at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. But the fourth ‘Anglican Global South to South Encounter’ (GS4E) was already marked by intense feelings of distress. The Anglican Global South, grouping 20 provinces in the southern hemisphere, represents three-quarters of the 75 million [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Apr 20th, 2010
A transcript of the sermon can be found here.
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 13th, 2010
From Anglican Mainstream. The Archbishop of Canterbury The Most Revd Rowan Williams, Lambeth Palace, England. Your Grace, As you well know I am totally committed to the health, vitality and effectiveness of our beloved Anglican Communion, and thus also to its healing from the current crisis. I have supported all efforts made by yourself and [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 10th, 2010
From here: Grateful for the gracious guidance of the Holy Spirit, and the leadership of the Most Reverend Peter J. Akinola, the Primates Council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON/FCA) met in Bermuda from April 5 through 9, 2010. The Primates Council[i] consists of Primates (Senior Archbishops) of Anglican Provinces who met together in [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 9th, 2010
Update from AM: In a phone conversation from Uganda this morning, Canon Dr Alison Barfoot, the international affairs officer for Archbishop Henry Orombi stated that he had NOT resigned from the Joint Standing Committee, but was expressing his support for Bishop Mouneer Anis. Canon Dr Chris Sugden From SF: The Most Rev. Rowan Williams Archbishop [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Mar 2nd, 2010
Received via email from the American Anglican Council: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The American Anglican Council is pleased to release “Communion Governance: The Role and Future of the Historic Episcopate and the Anglican Communion Covenant,” by the Rev. Dr. Stephen Noll, Vice-Chancellor of Uganda Christian University. His essay is characterized by meticulous research [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Feb 15th, 2010
Among the motions passed at yesterday’s annual meeting of the Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was an endorsement of the Anglican Communion Covenant. Preamble: In the current distresses of the Anglican Communion and in the attempts to find a mechanism to hole the communion together, the Archbishop of Canterbury has sponsored an ‘Anglican [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Feb 11th, 2010
There have been comments suggesting that this briefing paper is “slanderous”. Very well. Here is the full text. Please feel free to point out any inaccuracies that you can find. Background Paper Private Members Motion: “That this Synod express the desire that the Church of England be in communion with the Anglican Church in North [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Feb 10th, 2010
309 to 69, 17 abstentions. Here is the motion: That this Synod, aware of the distress cause by recent divisions within the Anglican churches of the United States of America and Canada, (a) recognise and affirm the desire of those who have formed the Anglican Church in North America to remain within the Anglican family; [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Feb 9th, 2010
Posted in Anglican Communion on Feb 9th, 2010
Read it all here. There was speculation that Archbishop Rowan Williams was going to get tough in his Presidential Address. To me, he still sounds more like an academic giving his class a mild scolding than a leader about to take action. And in the Communion? There is an undoubted good in the independence of [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Jan 31st, 2010
From SF. The complete letter of resignation is here and is well worth reading. After much prayer and consideration, I hereby submit my resignation from the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion (SCAC). I have come to realize that my presence in the current SCAC has no value whatsoever and my voice is like a [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Jan 5th, 2010
H/t to Anglican Samizdat. From the Christian Post, read the whole thing here, it is well worth your time. As the worldwide Anglican Communion moves fullspeed toward a full implementation of a covenant held out as a means of restoring unity, an influential evangelical retired archbishop is not overly enthusiastic. On the contrary, he has [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Dec 30th, 2009
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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