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January 31 2008 By virtueonline Lament for a Lost Church. Rector Resigns - Ian Montgomery

I have watched this Church that I love and have served these last thirty plus years move further and further away from our Apostolic, Catholic and Biblical Faith. I have also seen more and more of my friends and colleagues persecuted and prosecuted for being faithful to Christ and to their ordination vows. Just this January the Presiding Bishop and her attorney have initiated charges against two of the godliest bishops of the church and more are being threatened.

January 29 2008 By virtueonline Christianity vs. Jesusanity: The Postmodern Temptation

As Bock and Wallace explain, classical biblical Christianity is being replaced by "Jesusanity." In their words:

January 28 2008 By virtueonline Politics, Logic and Other Absurdities - The Diocese of San Joaquin

Yesterday, the Episcopal Church held a pep rally on behalf of Remain Episcopal. It devoted a fair amount of resources to the effort (buses and satellite feeds aren't exactly cheap). According to the official organ of the Episcopal Church, The Episcopal News Service, around 350 people showed for the service.

January 28 2008 By virtueonline CANADA: Don't rush the Anglican Covenant

And this need for time and care in the development of a covenant was recognized by the Windsor Report itself, when it saw the covenant as being developed through a "long-term process, in an educative context, ... considered for real debate and agreement on its adoption as a solemn witness to communion. (¶118)"

To our minds this passage of the Windsor Report is not recommending a ten-month process; it is recommending something much more like a ten-year process.

January 28 2008 By virtueonline Invading Anglican closets - Terry Mattingly

This is precisely the kind of rite that has infuriated so many conservatives in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

But the sound that Anglican insiders heard the other day was nervous coughing in England. U.S. Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori has decided not to let gays, lesbians and bisexuals in the mother church sit safely on the sidelines while traditionalists take shots at her flock.

What about those same-sex union rites?

January 28 2008 By virtueonline "Evangelicals are not about to jump ship" - N.T. Wright

I have shared the frustration of the past five years, both in the United States and around the world. I have often wished that the Windsor report could have provided a more solid and speedy resolution. But the ship hasn't sunk yet.

January 22 2008 By virtueonline Open Letter to the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori

I write in the spirit of openness expressed in your BBC interview on 1st January 2008 when you said, "The Episcopal Church lives in a society that values transparency .... [and has felt led] to bring these issues [of human sexuality] out into the public sphere where we can do public theologising about them".

January 22 2008 By virtueonline THE GREAT DECOMMISSION: Jon Bruno's Gospel of Appeasement - Gary L'Hommedieu

"During the service, the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, issued a statement of apology to the Hindu religious community for centuries-old acts of religious discrimination by Christians, including attempts to convert them. The bishop also said he was committed to renouncing 'proselytizing' of Hindus," reported the LA Times.

January 22 2008 By virtueonline CANTERBURY: The importance of Archbishop Ernest - Ruth Gledhill

His is not the only view to suggest possible fracturing in the conservative ranks.

January 21 2008 By virtueonline Against Islamic Apartheid

The Islamization of some parts of British cities has happened thanks to high immigration from Muslim countries, low birth-rates among the native British, and the growing secularization of once Christian British society, where only about ten percent or less are Christian church-goers.

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