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January 28 2008 By virtueonline DALLAS: Consecrations of Three Bishops to AMiA Challenge Diocesan Boundaries

Present at the consecration were two sitting African Archbishops, Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda and the Most Revd Justice Ofei Akrofi of West Africa. Two retired Southeast Asian Archbishops were on hand including the Most Rev. Moses Tay and the Most Rev. Yong Ping Chung. A Canadian bishop, the Rt. Rev.

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January 26 2008 By virtueonline DALLAS: "Scripture and the Gospel have no boundaries" - Bishop Donald Harvey

The times have changed and he knows it. He is glad to be on board with Anglicans who have a passion for Jesus Christ and who care deeply about the Great Commission and kingdom building.

He is in Dallas at the Winter Conference of the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) as just one of 1,700 folk listening to speaker after speaker exhort and extol a new generation of evangelical Anglicans to go out and make disciples for Jesus Christ and to plant churches.

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January 25 2008 By virtueonline "Liberal theology without the gospel has the smell of death" J.I. Packer

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
1/24/2008

VIRTUEONLINE: Dr. Packer, you sit in Vancouver, British Columbia. You have seen the collapse of a united Anglicanism in your city and area and it is a microcosm of what is going on in many places. How do you read the present fractures and controversies within the Anglican Communion?

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January 25 2008 By virtueonline DALLAS: AMIA Conference Draws Record Crowd to Hear Call to Grow Church

"God is pulling together His people from the US, Canada and across the world. This is our eighth winter conference. We have people from 37 states and the District of Columbia. We have representatives from 13 different countries - from Canada in the north to South America, from Europe, Africa and Asia, God's people are celebrating what God is doing in and through the AMIA."

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January 25 2008 By virtueonline African Bishop Spins Homosexuality Debate in TEC Diocese

"When I hear all these harsh tones being exchanged, I ask if anybody is praying."

Mwamba said that most of those who have been labeled as incensed over the ordination of a gay bishop really aren't wrapped up in whether God particularly cares about people's sexual orientation. The loudest voices do not constitute a majority of the thought in the Anglican community, as has been claimed, he said.

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January 24 2008 By virtueonline BONNIE ANDERSON: Mischief Maker, Trouble Maker and Meddler

She did it again in the Diocese of the Rio Grande just as Bishop Jeffrey Steenson was exiting to Rome. She stirred up trouble in the Diocese of San Joaquin working her brand of revisionist magic for her uber mistress, Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, with such groups as Via Media, who are about as far removed from the original intent of those two words as you could possibly find.

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January 24 2008 By virtueonline COLORADO SPRINGS: Orthodox Priest Fights Back With Lawsuits Against Diocese

O'Neill sent a letter threatening each of the individual defendants with a civil damage lawsuit unless they "gave up the occupation of the property."

In their counterclaim, the Vestry argues that the letter "is a blatant attempt by O'Neill, and through him the Diocese, to extort the individual defendants into violating their fiduciary and statutory duties to preserve the Church's property".

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January 22 2008 By virtueonline Hobson's Choice: The Face of Liberalism

"I think it's time to admit that the tradition of liberal Anglicanism is finished. Those Anglicans who carry on calling for an 'inclusive church' are relics of a previous era. They should face the fact that the religious landscape has changed utterly. Liberal Anglicanism has become oxymoronic. For the first time this church has defined itself in opposition to liberalism, taking a decisively reactionary stance on a crucial moral issue.

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January 20 2008 By virtueonline CHICAGO: Standing Committee Rips Consecration Site for Anti-Homosexual Stance

In a statement from the diocese, the Transition Committee emphasized the full inclusion policy of the diocese in its negotiations with the agency in charge of the arena management, International Facilities Group, and received assurances that the Diocese of Chicago would be welcome in all of its diversity at the House of Hope Arena.

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