That tension never went away. It appears that the daily operating (and funding) of 'Network' was always and chiefly in the hands of those in favour of such a new structure. In turn, they related their movement to AMiA, various continuing churches, and in time to what would become CANA, with themselves becoming bishops in this, now termed, Common Cause movement.
Read moreNeither group began this way. The "old Continuers" actually stated in their Affirmation their loyalty to the See of Canterbury; but, they seemed to have dropped this when the Church of England decided to allow the ordination of women.
Read moreHere is my answer to the unspoken question: I am deeply sympathetic to any who believe that the current leadership of The Episcopal Church has greatly compromised the "doctrine, discipline and worship of Christ as this Church has received them." And I am extremely reluctant to discipline those who, for conscience sake, are finding they MUST "disaffiliate."
Read more*The result of the Archbishop of Canterbury consulting the primates one-by-one instead of holding a primates meeting to evaluate TEC's response to the Dar-es-Salaam communique is predictably "some say this and some say that".
Read moreThat's not a snide remark or even a criticism, but an observation of how the "ism" of Anglicanism has lately disappeared before our eyes. Anglicanism has been described as resistant to doctrinal precision or even to doctrine per se. It purports to be all things to all people. One man's Anglicanism is another man's abomination. One anathematizes another with the same damning cry -- un-Anglican!
Read moreI think the good father is close, but wrong on the last line, which I believe should read "Lambeth Palace/Anglican Communion Office Anglicanism has failed."
I say this because the orthodox majority as measured by seats in the pew:
Read moreMany in North America in Advent 2007, beholding the divided and disordered state of Anglicanism in the U.S.A., think that it is unlikely that the global Anglican Family can hang together much longer. So one hears constantly statements like, "We do not need a 'Canterbury Communion;' we are content with a new arrangement and changing center."
Read moreAs I said in that earlier letter, the responses received from primates differed in their assessment of the situation. Slightly more than half of the replies received signalled a willingness to accept the Joint Standing Committee's analysis of the New Orleans statement, but the rest regarded both the statement and the Standing Committee's comments as an inadequate response to what had been requested by the primates in Dar-es-Salaam.
Read moreGeneral Convention will extract revenge on those conservatives who have remained within the Episcopal Church, and it will not be pretty. I am sure Mr. David Booth Beers (Mrs. Jefferts Schori's attorney) will have all manor of things waiting for us at GC2009.
That is the more or less the immediate future.
Read moreHardly the headline grabbing stuff of VGR's New Hampshire, nor for that matter, of Bishop Duncan's Pittsburgh. With that in mind, it's interesting to see the ACC snail begin to inch its way out of its proverbial shell, with the dioceses of Ottawa, Montreal and Niagara asking their Bishops to go against the will of the Synod and perform SSBs anyway. Well, it's not up to the antics of the U.S.
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