We are grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury for his efforts to broker a cease fire in our current conflicts and to assist us in finding a way to work through the impasse we have reached. If things go well at this initial meeting, additional dates have been set aside to continue our deliberations in the future. Your prayers are asked for the participants as we seek a way forward for a church in crisis.
---The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker is Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas
Read moreWhile I did not defend myself and did not attack back, I declined to give in to the pressure and leave at that time and under that kind of pressure as I knew that would be the very worst thing for the future of the Diocese of Southern Virginia.
Read moreWe first highlight some pejorative terms used by some Orthodox, as they began such use many years before it was used against them. While some of these words have a descriptive basis, they are clearly pejorative in the way they are usually used in this dispute. The terms include but are not limited to abomination and faggot.
Read moreThere are only a few texts I can think of that, if I had the ability, I would force people to read. One is the article by Shelby Steele excerpted above, which changed my life when I first read it.
In responding to the article a blogger made the following comment:
"White guilt? I'm white and I don't feel guilty about it. Maybe you should call it liberal guilt."
Read moreThe hated of Jews by Muslims predated the creation of the State of Israel by some twenty years. Groups of Zionists took advantage of PM Balfour's 1921 declaration that they could immigrate to the terrify that Britain was ruling as The Mandate of Palestine. They lived in kibbutz located on semi-arid land that no one had been living on.
Read moreAt the time, I knew nothing of Mr. Robinson's sexual preferences, and it was not his oblique references to homosexuality that alarmed me so much as his implication that God allows, nay, smiles upon whatever we choose to do in the name of love. There was a malevolently yet seductively twisted logic in his argument.
Read moreEmbraced by the leadership of all the mainline Protestant denominations, as well as large segments of American Catholicism, liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church.
Instead, as all but a few die-hards now admit, all the mainline churches and movements within churches that have blurred doctrine and softened moral precepts are demographically declining and, in the case of the Episcopal Church, disintegrating.
Read moreMy purpose in this essay is to relate this sermon to Christ's atonement, to the Middle East, and to political conflict in general.
Read moreHowever, some issues within a local province have external or Communion-wide implications. In these instances, issues that might otherwise be handled autonomously so affect the larger Communion, that for the sake of communion, the larger Communion must have a voice in the matter. When this is so, the interdependence of communion comes into play, and we emphasize the communion side of the phrase.
Read moreBefore I attempt to answer that question, I invite you to read Network Moderator Bishop Bob Duncan's Council address very carefully. See the ACN website (http://www.acn-us.org) for the full text of his address. Yes, you will need to take some time to prayerfully think through it for Bishop Bob gives his comprehensive view of the state of the Church in this address.
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