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June 03 2007 By virtueonline The Inherited Church. A timely Lesson for Episcopalians

A corollary to this observation is that the children of the super-rich of previous generations are either no longer on Forbes's list, or they are much further down the list. Inherited wealth tends to dissipate rather than grow. The Rockefellers and Carnegies and Morgans are no longer on the list, which is now dominated by names unknown just 30 years ago.

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June 02 2007 By virtueonline ROMANS 1 AND HOMOSEXUALITY - John Stott

Secondly, 'the likelihood is that Paul is thinking about pederasty' (sex with a boy) since 'there was no other form of male homosexuality in the Greco-Roman world', and that he is opposing it because of the humiliation and exploitation experienced by the youths involved.2 All one can say is the text itself contains no hint of it.

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June 01 2007 By virtueonline One More Nail in the Lambeth Coffin - by Charles Raven

So if the second most senior figure in the Church of England is prepared to affirm a form of Anglican identity at such a sensitive moment with a bishop who has consented to an action which has given the clearest possible signal of her church's intention to depart from the historic faith of the Scriptures, what should we conclude?

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May 31 2007 By virtueonline Williams Advice on Lambeth Invitees not fixed - Lord Carey

This, of course, was before 2003 when the Episcopal Church clearly signalled its abandonment of Communion norms, in spite of warnings from the Primates that the consecration of a practising homosexual bishop would 'tear the fabric of the Communion'.

It is not too much to say that everything has changed in the Anglican Communion as a result of the consecration of Gene Robinson

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May 29 2007 By virtueonline Stand up for yourself, Rowan - a liberal perspective

Now, in the last couple of days, a situation has arisen which may settle the issue once and for all. He has invited all but a handful of the 800 or so bishops of the Anglican communion to their regular conference next year.

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May 29 2007 By virtueonline Lambeth Conference, 2008-will it actually take place?

Let me explain, with respect to the latter point.

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May 27 2007 By virtueonline OPEN LETTER ON THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION TO NETWORK BISHOPS

(N.B. I am focusing on the seminary I know best, but there is a surely parallel story to be told for Nashotah House and the Reformed Episcopal seminaries. It strikes me that Trinity and the REC seminaries should naturally serve an evangelical Anglican constituency which seeks to be catholic-minded and Nashotah should naturally serve an Anglo-catholic constituency that seeks to be evangelically-minded.)

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May 26 2007 By virtueonline THE TIMES AD: Trading In Dead Men's Morality -- Gary L'Hommedieu

The Episcopal Church, like other cherished institutions, is indwelt by a transcendent force that promises life beyond the grave for its present membership: namely, the massive financial contributions squirreled away by its ancestors -- the enormous inventory of tax exempt properties, bank accounts, trust funds, artifacts and other historic treasures of generations long deceased. In this Church the dead could go on burying their dead for generations to come before anyone noticed.

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May 26 2007 By virtueonline AAC President Rips Williams over Lambeth Invitation List

I think Lambeth is playing for what the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks is the middle ground, but he has sorely misjudged the reality. The middle is very small. Most of the American Episcopal Church is trapped under highly revisionist and pantheistic leaders, for whom Jesus Christ is not the only way. Thus, numbers-wise, TEC has little middle ground, with the revisionists in the majority, the orthodox secondary, and those in the middle last in number.

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May 25 2007 By virtueonline Anglican Communion Institute Responds to ABC's Invitations

It has been the consistent position of ACI, going back to 'To Mend the Net,' that the specific authority given to the Archbishop of Canterbury is that of gathering and inviting. And the place where that authority is his alone is the Lambeth Conference invitations.

But there is no evidence whatsoever that in making invitations for the 2008 Conference, +Canterbury has set aside or ignored the authority of the other Instruments.

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