To date, St. Andrews and its priest, Fr. Robert Hackendorf, have successfully resisted the attempt by the diocese to take the parish through legal action, when action was first taken by the diocese in July 2006 and again in September.
Read moreThe convention then did the following:
* Reduced spending from $3.45 million approved last November to $2.28 million.
Read more"Votes to leave typically followed years of preaching and teaching against the Episcopal Church, our polity and our theology," he wrote.
In a "Dear Colleagues" letter, Powell said he called Bishop Lee to offer his condolences and full support and then recounted his own personal story of the departing Church of the Holy Spirit, the largest parish that fled his diocese six years ago over bad faith and morals.
Read moreBased on conversations among the leadership teams of St Charles and St Stephens parishes a plan was drawn up and all the parties signed on to it. Furthermore the process of departure was shepherded by resources within the Anglican Communion Network and ably aided as well by the Western Dean, The Rev. William Thompson. ACN determined that both parishes would come under the oversight of Recife Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti and he generously welcomed them in early October of 2004.
Read moreAs a former Roman Catholic who walked away from that church taking nothing with her, she believes that Episcopalians who want to should leave the keys and check book at the front door on the way out. She even cites Archbishop Peter Akinola who declared that fleeing Episcopalians should be prepared to forfeit properties and pensions as they go.
Read moreThe signers include such illustrious figures as evangelical patriarch the Rev. Dr. John R. W. Stott, Bishop Wallace Benn, President of the Church of England Evangelical Council, The Rev. Dick Lucas, The Rev. David Phillips, (Director of Church Society and the leadership of Church Society), The Rev. Simon Vibert (St Luke's Wimbledon Park, Diocese of Southwark and Chair of the Fellowship of Word and Spirit) and The Rev. David Petersen, (Principal of Oak Hill College) to name but a few.
Read moreIn October 2005, a Pennsylvania state court judge approved a settlement in the lawsuit, which challenged a 2003 diocesan convention resolution asserting that congregations own their buildings and that neither the diocese nor national church structures could claim them if a parish decides to leave.
Read moreShe is the first female Primate of the worldwide Anglican Communion who, within weeks of her nomination, found herself at the center of controversy with an unacceptable rating with most of the church's archbishops because of her ultra-liberal views on theology and morality.
She is the first Primate ever, to refer to Jesus as "mother Jesus" during a homily at the 75th General Convention Eucharist beginning an alienation from orthodox Anglican believers that only got worse with time.
Read moreThe chancellor then made an astonishing admission. "Bishop Louttit is concerned that Lambeth 2008 may not even take place and it is certainly not clear that our Presiding Bishop will even be invited to attend. In addition, it is impossible to predict what action if any might come from that meeting should it take place."
Read moreThe first blast came from Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson who wrote an article titled "Episcopalians Against Equality" in which he bemoaned, "Don't look now, but Virginia is seceding again."
He said the vote by the churches to leave was a protest "to its increasingly equal treatment of homosexuals."
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