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December 12 2007 By virtueonline Ruminations: The Presiding Bishop has a dream - Fleming Rutledge

Another word the PB likes is "task." She often talks about "our task" as Christians. This is not a Biblical concept. If we are to speak theologically, we will use the words "call" or "vocation," because it is implied in such words that there is an agency that does the calling (Latin vocare, to call). A "task" is burdensome, something that is laid upon us that we must be exhorted laboriously to fulfil. A vocation from God is a gift that makes us joyful and free.

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December 11 2007 By virtueonline CANADA: Former SOMA leader Resign Orders

It was also through my Anglican colleagues that I have been encouraged and challenged the most. And it was with my Anglican friends that I experienced the fullness of the Holy Spirit and His empowerment for ministry.

It is with great sadness, therefore, that I no longer find room within the Anglican Church of Canada and feel that I have no option but to relinquish my orders immediately.

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December 10 2007 By virtueonline Archbishop of Canterbury - why social cohesion needs religion

Dr Williams argues strongly against the idea that religious diversity is at odds with social cohesion, but conversely, that it can help strengthen social harmony - if governments are willing to listen to the views of the faith communities:

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December 10 2007 By virtueonline Actions...and Consequences...Shocking Revelations by Ecumenical Bishop

Often cited are the writings of Bishop Spong, the confirmation of the Bishop of New Hamshire by General Convention 2003, and some bishops' permission for the blessing of same sex unions in their dioceses despite the lack of an official liturgical rite in our church for such an event.

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December 09 2007 By virtueonline "Let my people go" - Bishop's Address to the Diocese of San Joaquin

Upon returning to report on what they had seen, they dissuaded the Israelites from entering the Promised Land. "We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes," they said, " and we looked the
same to them" (Numbers 13. 33) The people refused to take what God was offering to them. So, the Lord declared: "Forty years - one year for each of the forty days you explored the land - you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you." (Num. 14. 34)

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December 08 2007 By virtueonline TSM Seminary Professor Responds to Giles Fraser

First, Trinity was founded as a theological college in 1976 because by that time the last remaining Evangelical one ( Virginia ) had become liberal in its commitments. One of the systematic theology professors left his tenured position there to help start this risky enterprise with the aim of securing a continuing place for Evangelicalism in the Episcopal Church.

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December 07 2007 By virtueonline A parallel experience: the United Church of Canada

No longer could one say that the Christian denominations would not accept civil unions and same-sex marriage as equivalent to heterosexual marriage. Besides the media and academia, now liberal Protestantism joined the charge for change.

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December 06 2007 By virtueonline NIGERIA: Akinola Writes Open Letter to Fellow Primates

It has been repeatedly stated and most succinctly summarized in the report, 'Road to Lambeth' we face a two fold crisis in the Anglican Communion: a crisis of doctrine and a crisis of leadership, in which the failure of the "Instruments" of the Communion to exercise discipline has called into question the viability of the Anglican Communion as a united Christian body under the common foundation of faith. (See the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral)

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December 05 2007 By virtueonline CANADA: Two Theologians Reflect on Canadian Schism Canada is not the U.S.

The term "realignment" has taken on a new meaning, however, over the past few years. It now seems to denote for many the erection of new hierarchical structures among Anglicans, separate from, independent of accountability to, and out of communion with a range of other existing Communion entities and persons. Instead, these structures claim a more local or individualized form of accountability, as in a congregational polity now lifted into an 'episcopal' frame of reference.

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December 03 2007 By virtueonline Rowan Williams, Public Embarrassment

Somehow, though, I suspect that is not what Archbishop Williams would care to emphasize. According to the Times, American foreign policy-its efforts to intervene overseas by "clearing the decks" with a "quick burst of violent action"-has led to "the worst of all worlds". Gee. The worst of all worlds? Worse than one in which the United States had not intervened violently? Worse, for example, than a world presided over by Nazis, Japanese militarists, or Communist thugs?

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