Anglican Orthodox, a rapidly growing grassroots movement of hundreds of vicars and senior lay leaders, plus retired bishops and archdeacons, notes in precious centuries, when society and culture put pressure on the Church to conform, it was the bishops who stood firm and resisted compromise on biblical faith, and were even burnt at the stake!
Read moreI have participated in good faith in the process, trusting that this was an opportunity for people across the Church to work together to try to find a way forward that was "founded in scripture, in reason, in tradition, in theology and the Christian faith as the Church of England has received it", as the Archbishop of Canterbury put it when launching the project in 2017.
SIMPLY TO STATE THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS NOT AN ACT OF DISCERNMENT
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Much of the justification for this stance regarding same sex unions rests on the uncritical adoption of new ideologies of ontology. Chief among these is the adoption of modern gender ideology and its concomitant offspring -- gender identity. Gender ideology is a post-modern deconstruction of the biblical understanding of human identity.
Read moreIt suppresses the "faith once delivered to the saints" and instead champions a counterfeit deeply devoted to progressive political aims and sexual permissiveness. And, for the Church of England, this has been a long time coming. While in past generations her scholarly clergy were often swift and sound when it came to refuting false doctrine, a theological liberalism has certainly taken root and taken over the denomination like a cancer.
Read moreAnd, truth be told, it was not the King or Parliament or the Bishops or the Archbishop of Canterbury who were primarily responsible for the fruit of Anglican mission.
Read moreThe reasons for this are threefold:
Read moreMany, many times I have said -- no, cried out in prayer on my knees -- to the Lord: "I don't understand ... I don't understand ... I don't understand ..."
I have a priest friend of mine who says: "Well, of course you don't understand. It's evil and there is no understanding evil."
Read more"How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave." (Lamentations 1:1)
Read moreLike other human traits (both normal and disordered), narcissistic traits and symptoms are statistically on the "normal curve." This means that there are few individuals at either extremes (5% with no narcissistic traits at all and 5% who can be easily diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder), but the great majority of people are close to the middle of the curve... and thus have a few of these traits.
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