The AAC Strategy Committee has been working for months on AEO. In consultation with a wide circle of friends - inside this country and beyond - we have clarified our strategy and are now moving to implement it. I am serving as their response person for AEO, and I want to brief you on our progress. This document will get you up to speed on where we are going.
Read moreNow, it’s been talked about in the press, and as I was talking with the organizers, I brought it up. And, as we gathered around, they looked down and said, “Well, you’re right.”
The African American Episcopal Community is missing. Last night, there were only three African American priests here for Eucharist.
Read moreThe Church has been a place of stability and refuge, although it has always been in need of reform. But recent actions of the Episcopal Church have taken spiritual depravity to new depth for the modern era.
Read moreI have come to the conclusion that I can no longer serve the Lord as an Episcopal priest. It boils down to integrity, that I cannot knowingly violate my conscience. I cannot accept or abide by this new teaching of unChristian morality. In the words of Bishop Alexander, I can no longer embrace the “common life of the Episcopal Church.” So I must resign. My last day will be February 1 with the Annual Meeting of the Church.
Read moreDid Bishop Lee ever dream that Bishop Duncan would lead a Eucharist of nearly 3,000 Episcopalians?
Tonight was the kickoff for the follow-up conference to the historic gathering of Episcopalians in Texas last October 7-10. Called "Plano" since that was the original site for the conference until the numbers grew too large (around 2,500 people as I recall) and had to be moved to Dallas.
Read moreBut I got up. And out into the dark I went. What I found when I got to Plano East were now 3,000 Episcopalians - all fired up for Jesus.
Imagine this. I feel like I have been able to stand on tiptoe and look through a small window and catch a glimpse of what may be coming. And friends, it looks real good. Come look through the window with me.
Read moreThe procession was several hundred Priests long, and 2 Bishops in
attendance: Bishop Duncan and Bishop M'Pango of Tanginika, who attended VTS
and was married at Truro Church (by Rt. Rev. John Howe, I believe, well, it
was during his time at Truro).
Secondly, and more importantly, this was not our final service. We have continued to meet for Sunday morning services and have made arrangements for a clergy presence during these services.
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