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February 15 2006 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Caterpillar: Rowan Williams writes to Chief Rabbi

The Synod has not, by this action, resolved to disinvest; although the resolution was a response to a call from our sister church in the region to disinvest, our response took the form of deciding (in accordance with the resolution of the international Anglican Consultative Council last June) to continue to examine our policy, to engage with companies about whom we had concerns and, specifically, to encourage a fact-finding visit to the Holy Land.

February 15 2006 By virtueonline UK: Liberals want Forward in Faith to stay in Church, but on their Terms

At the same time the liberal/revisionist hegemony want catholic/traditionalists to remain within the Church but on the liberal/revisionists' terms. This is why there were a number of General Synod speakers (e.g. Christina Rees) who pressed for a single clause motion, people who were certainly not happy with the whole notion of TEA (Transferred Episcopal Arrangements) and PRBs (Provincial Regional Bishops) and everything that that scheme might entail.

February 14 2006 By virtueonline Gagnon Critiques Myers and Scanzoni over Homosexual Practice

* The different hermeneutical scales or interpretive grids used by proponents and opponents of homosexual practice (pp. 19-25).

* The difficulty in neutralizing Scripture for a pro-homosex agenda (pp. 25-30).

* The nature argument (pp. 30-46).

* The relevant biblical texts and the arguments used to limit their relevance for today's debate: Old Testament (pp. 46-54) and the New Testament (pp. 54-85), including Jesus (pp. 56-62) and Paul (pp. 62-85).

February 13 2006 By virtueonline Finding a way forward - by Bill Atwood

1. We are people of the Ark. We are to preach the Gospel (in a joinable fashion so that people can become part of the spiritual Body of Christ). The Word of God says if we will commit to bring them into the Ark, He will help bring them to the Ark.

2. We are people of the Cross. We are to speak the truth in love (both to declare the Kingdom of God and to call people who are stuck in sin to repent.)

3. We are people of the Light. No hidden agendas.

February 13 2006 By virtueonline ECUSA' CHOICE - by Philip W. Turner III

In this diatribe, it is my intention to place clearly before us several points of view that I believe to be pervasive (even among those of us assembled here); show that they are destructively in error; and propose, in if only briefly, another position-one that marks out a hard road and a narrow path that lead in a direction quite different from the ones in which our church now seems to be walking.

February 12 2006 By virtueonline Women as Bishops: Rowan Williams of Canterbury got it right

Let us note some themes in these very significant words.

1. Everyone has an opinion and this is assumed as a given by the media daily in their polls - opinion polls. But most of what we call opinions are not based on sustained study and prolonged investigation but on current feelings and circumstances, and often just selfishness. Opinions come and go.

February 12 2006 By virtueonline "Doublethink" and the Church - by Paul Zahl

This problem, of sloganeering in the name of an ideological push while at the same time contradicting it hugely in practice (as well as in concept) is the problem that George Orwell tagged in 1949 when he wrote his memorable book 1984. Let me quote Erich Fromm concerning Orwell's description of what is probably happening right under our noses today.

February 07 2006 By virtueonline PENNSYLVANIA: "Bishop Bennison must voluntarily resign", says Evangelical priest

It means that there is evidence that things have happened during his episcopacy that make it impossible for him to continue to lead with integrity. It means that efforts at change and reconciliation have failed, and the Standing Committee has no other choice but to ask for his resignation. It means that the Standing Committee has come to this difficult point only because they are in the position of having to choose between the health of the Diocese and the continued leadership of its bishop.

February 06 2006 By virtueonline Prayer Book Society of the USA - does it have a future?

Since 1995 or so, a deeper appreciation of the actual religion, faith and morality, of the Prayer Book, together with a practical and financial realism, have descended, I believe, upon the Board of the Society. So exhibitions and massive expenditure at the General Convention have ceased; production there of a daily newspaper alone or with the FinFNA has ceased; pretence that the ECUSA can easily be turned around has disappeared, and politicized letters begging for money no longer go out.

February 04 2006 By virtueonline LAMBETH: Archbishop's Speech for Ceremony at Dietrich Bonhoeffer Memorial

We serve Europe and indeed the whole of humanity not by denying our local setting, with all its complexities and tragedies, but by the service of specific needs in a specific place. To be committed to Europe is to be committed to the healing and transformation in Christ of this particular country and people, wherever and whichever it might be.

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