As Eye See It | VirtueOnline – The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism

March 23 2007 By virtueonline What Way Ahead? - by Ephraim Radner

It is increasingly less likely that appointments of conservatives are made to diocesan, provincial, and national committees (the only way, for a long time now, that such a presence has even been possible); and it is certainly no longer likely that conservatives will be voted, by diocesan or national conventions, onto decision-making councils. Most of our seminaries apply, openly or surreptitiously, the gay-test (and probably do so in both directions, depending on the school).

March 23 2007 By virtueonline The Episcopalian civil war intensifies - Leo Sandon

Four explanations come to mind:

The 2003 election and consecration of Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as bishop of the New Hampshire diocese. This was a dramatic event that for many conservative Episcopalians was the last straw in what they believe has been a steady abandonment of Scripture and tradition by a liberal majority.

March 23 2007 By virtueonline The March Communique of the House of Bishops:Some surprising, wider implications

Must we wait until September to once again hear the Bishops cite the same argument, that the Primates' request concerning same sex blessings, ordinations of practicing homosexual persons, and consecrations to the Episcopate, violates the independence of TEC? Or, will the ploy be: "But they didn't ask us to stop these from going on, just not to authorize them. We are already in compliance"? Delay follows delay.

March 22 2007 By virtueonline CAMP ALLEN: Presiding Bishop's homily at House of Bishops' closing Eucharist

In some ways I think our church has presbyopia as well. I don't just mean "old eyes," which we certainly need if we're serious about valuing our tradition. Our tired and aging eyes mean that we don't have the ability to rapidly change focus, to look both back and forward, near and far away, in the space of a few instants.

March 22 2007 By virtueonline CENTRAL FLORIDA: Bishop Praises Schori's Leadership, strong HOB collegiality

Secondly, I think there has been a better sense of collegiality than we have experienced for a long time. One of the new Bishops said last night that he received an email from someone in his diocese that said, "I will bet the atmosphere is less than cordial."

March 22 2007 By virtueonline What Richard Hays really says - a response to the ABC's Presidential address

From what I know of Robert Gagnon, conservative author of the magisterial The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, 2001 - http://www.robgagnon.net/ gives his latest research - he would not agree with Dr Williams here. But Richard Hays, though to the theological left of Rob Gagnon, was no liberal.

March 21 2007 By virtueonline Simply Lewis

A Great Debt

I have something of the same feeling on re-reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. I owe Lewis a great debt. In my late teens and early twenties I read everything of his I could get my hands on, and read some of his paperbacks and essays several times over. There are sentences, and some whole passages, I know pretty much by heart.

March 20 2007 By virtueonline CAMP ALLEN: Proposed Anglican Covenant Steps towards the Covenant

When the primates met later at Dromantine (2005) and received the Windsor Report, they affirmed the general idea of an Anglican Covenant (as did Gen. Convention in June, in Resolution A166).

March 19 2007 By virtueonline Communion challenges require 'generosity and patience' - Rowan Williams

"To address these requests to the American House of Bishops is not to ignore the polity of The Episcopal Church, but to acknowledge that the bishops have a key role, acknowledged in the Constitution of that church, in authorising liturgies within their dioceses and in giving consent to the election of candidates for Episcopal order."

March 17 2007 By virtueonline Anglicans United Leader Blasts Schori over rejection of Lawrence in SC Decision

In light of her recent consent to the Communique issued by the Archbishop's Council in Dar es Salaam, she portrayed a person willing to be there and capable of expressing due consideration to all parties in the fragmenting Episcopal Church (TEC). Her actions betray that spirit.

You are here

Pages

News Topics

Special Reports