There is here much cause for encouragement but aspects of the Global South's approach are also causing major concern, especially in parts of Western churches.
Read moreIn the present crisis of identity which is seriously rocking the global Anglican Family of Churches, one thing ought to be clear to all leaders. No real progress will be made in establishing a clear identity for a future, renewed (and perhaps reduced) "Anglican Communion of Churches" without taking note of the Anglican birth certificate.
Read moreAt the next Windsor Bishops meeting at Camp Allen in January and at our Covenant Consultation in Oxford in July we will assure that this representation remains in place, as it was last month.
Read moreNotice here that he uses the strong form of the verb implying moral duty, "ought to be brought," and that he advocates careful study of The Articles. So, although there should be no subscription required, he believes that the clergy ought to know the content of The Articles. (This contrasts with those who dismiss The Articles as either irrelevant or "Protestant" and who seem not to read, let alone, study them carefully!)
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Read moreWe as a body continue to address the situations which have arisen in North America with the utmost seriousness. Whilst there remains a very real question about whether the North American churches are willing to accept the same teaching on matters of sexual morality as is generally accepted elsewhere in the Communion, the underlying reality of our communion in God the Holy Trinity is obscured, and the effectiveness of our common mission severely hindered (para 12).
Read moreDiocese of Atlanta
Church of Our Saviour, Atlanta (FIFNA)
St. Andrew’s in the Pines, Peachtree City
Diocese of Bethlehem
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Whitehall (FIFNA)
Diocese of Central Gulf Coast
Church of the Apostles, Daphne
Diocese of Central New York
Church of the Good Shepherd, Binghamton
St. Andrew’s, Syracuse
St. Andrew’s, Vestal
The work of the Commission concentrated on three areas: continuation of the work of the Communion Study on which the Commission has been working since its formation in 2001, reflection on the proposal for an Anglican Covenant, and preparation for the 2008 Lambeth Conference.
Read moreJohn Rodgers was one of the first consecrated Anglican Mission in American (AMiA) bishops and John Rucyahana not only serves in the province which created AMiA but notes that he himself sought soon after the last Lambeth conference to give 'episcopal oversight to Anglicans in anti-Scriptural ECUSA dioceses' (p22).
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