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July 05 2023
ACNA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AND COLLEGE OF BISHOPS 2023 RECAP
A constitutional dispute faced the College of Bishops and Provincial Council as the week began. The bishops, who are charged with "propagating and defending the Faith and Order of the Church," and with "being in service as a visible sign and expression of the Unity of the Church," * devoted the entire day on Tuesday to addressing a serious conflict that had been developing for months regarding the roles of the Archbishop and the Provincial Tribunal in disciplinary matters.
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July 03 2023
THE CHURCH THAT DIED
A Dying Church
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July 03 2023
TWO FLAGSHIP PARISHES IN ALEXANDRIA VA., ARE IN TROUBLE
GRACE EPISCOPAL ALEXANDRIA
Grace is in more dire shape. It has gone from zero reported average Sunday attendance in 2020 to 151 in 2021. And while its budget would seem, at first glance, to be relatively steady, it has declined by more than 30 percent since 2011 when adjusted for inflation. Pledging units have dropped from approximately 375 to 167 since 2014, and signs indicate continuing sharp decline.
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June 29 2023
Living Episcopal Bishops with Earned Doctoral Degrees
The members of the Episcopal House of Bishops are highly educated. Much more so than the average man in the street, or the prayerful woman sitting in the pews.
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June 24 2023
ANGLICAN ATTENDANCE STRONGLY REBOUNDS
"The bottom line in 2022 is that membership and the total number of our congregations showed modest increases, while attendance has rebounded encouragingly and pastoral ministry has bounced back significantly," ACNA Canon for Communications Andrew Gross told ACNA Provincial Council on Friday, June 23 at Christ Church Cathedral in Plano, Texas. Gross noted that attendance remained down from a pre-COVID high of 84,310 in 2018.
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June 20 2023
REDEFINING PRIDE MONTH
The priest delves deep into the Bible and found a teaching -- a Truth -- by Jesus.
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June 16 2023
WHY IS THE WEST BEST, WELBY?
1) Justin Welby misrepresents the 'common mind' of the Anglican Communion
• Begins with an unspecific claim
• Misquotes and misapplies Lambeth I.10
• Ignores 'Addendum A' the most authoritative statement from the Gathering of Primates in 2016
• Misapplies the Communique from the Primates Meeting in 2016
June 15 2023
First Welsh former Anglican bishop joins Ordinariate
He will be received by the Rt Rev. Keith Newton, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and a member of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
Mgr Newton said: "We are delighted that after much prayer Richard has asked to be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
"He will be the first bishop from the Anglican Church in Wales to be received into the Ordinariate since its creation in 2011.
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June 14 2023
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY LACKS THE MORAL JUSTIFICATION TO CHALLENGE GAFCON FOR REJECTING HOMOSEXUALITY
We recall that in the past, the Archbishop of Canterbury had issued similar statements
criticising the positions of the Anglican Provinces of Kenya and Nigeria. It seems the history
of colonisation and patronising behaviour of some provinces in the Northern Hemisphere
towards the South, and Africa in particular, is not yet at an end. We commit ourselves strongly
to obedience of the commandments of God as contained in the Holy Bible, one of which is
June 14 2023
EPISCOPAL CHURCH: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL REARRANGES DECK CHAIRS
The Episcopal News Service reports: "The Episcopal Church is 'being called to let go of our scarcity mindset and embrace the abundant blessings that the Holy Spirit has given us," [Julia Ayala Harris] said, adding, 'at the churchwide level, we sometimes talk too much about numbers, numbers of people in the pews, and not enough about the fruit of our ministries.'"
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