Initially, five Primates of the Global South including the West Indies, Tanzania, Indian Ocean, Burundi and the Middle East were approached to provide the oversight offer.
It was Bishop MacPherson who arranged the meeting with the Presiding Bishop, according to one conservative Episcopal blogger.
Read moreJefferts Schori wrote saying there are now "questions in many dioceses about the status of leadership in the Daughter of the King."
In the letter, Alexanderr wrote exhorting President Dalrymple to "address these concerns, not with us alone, but especially with the leaders of the Daughters at the diocesan and parish levels ... as quickly as possible."
Read moreJefferts Schori wrote saying there are now "questions in many dioceses about the status of leadership in the Daughter of the King."
In the letter, Alexanderr wrote exhorting President Dalrymple to "address these concerns, not with us alone, but especially with the leaders of the Daughters at the diocesan and parish levels ... as quickly as possible."
Read moreThis raised the prospect of Islamic courts in Britain with full legal powers to approve polygamous marriages, grant easy divorce for men and prevent finance firms from charging interest.
His comments sparked a furor of responses, mostly negative from media, religious and secular pundits and some Islamic leaders, with one Church of England bishop calling on him to resign.
Read moreThis raised the prospect of Islamic courts in Britain with full legal powers to approve polygamous marriages, grant easy divorce for men and prevent finance firms from charging interest.
His comments sparked a furor of responses, mostly negative from media, religious and secular pundits and some Islamic leaders, with one Church of England bishop calling on him to resign.
Read moreBy David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
2/6/2008
VIRTUEONLINE: Bishop, the Anglican Communion is going through a heart-breaking period in its history with many now believing it is heading towards schism. Do you believe that?
Read moreBy David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
2/6/2008
VIRTUEONLINE: Bishop, the Anglican Communion is going through a heart-breaking period in its history with many now believing it is heading towards schism. Do you believe that?
Read more"The polarization is great. It is far greater than I had realized with more and more extremes in the church. Classic Anglicanism was always in the middle. I have prided myself that I have been able to sit on the fence. There is no barbed wire [on the fence] it is the sacrificial place to be."
The Dean lauded the Archbishop of Canterbury's proposed Anglican Covenant and urged his hearers to give it a chance to succeed.
Read moreIn a turgid, damning letter, the clergy, who did not identify themselves, wrote, "Here we are, just a few months away from the Lambeth Conference, and we find ourselves in an impasse: the Bishop of New Hampshire without an invitation to attend the meeting, the poachers from the Global South hunting in the U.S.A.
Read moreDrawing on the long history of the Anglican Communion, Duncan said the old Elizabethan Settlement is dead and a new reformation with a new consensus is emerging as Mere Anglicanism, which will have new systems and structures.
Observing developments since the Sept. 30 HOB meeting in New Orleans, Duncan noted that there are implications for Anglicanism. "I am still the bishop (applause and laughter). I am my old uninhibited self. We learn by suffering that is my family motto."
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