In the Episcopal Church, in more than a dozen dioceses, large orthodox parishes snubbed their noses at revisionist bishops, lawyered up, and proceeded to walk away - some with their properties, some without -- but determined once and for all that they would walk apart from a church that had lost its spiritual way.
Read moreEarlier, the Commonwealth Court found that four vestry persons, Karl H. Spaeth, Gary E. Sugden, Becky S. Wilhoite and Robert Snead were liable to the diocese. Fr. David Ousley, parish rector is a not a party to the suit. Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison could seek damages from the four vestry persons. One has already departed the parish.
Read moreThe majority of the parishioners were once members of St. John's Episcopal Church in Glyndon, Maryland, but left the church, the diocese and the Episcopal Church over the denomination's gradual slide over many years into a revisionist theology which embraces the culture rather than standing firm on historic Biblical Christianity as stated in the creeds.
Read moreThe Rev. Canon Suheil was recently elected Coadjutor Bishop of the Anglican Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East and will work alongside the current Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Riah Abu-Assal, for a period of two years before taking his place.
The source said one priest was stunned and appalled by the possibility of entering into an agreement with the pro-gay American Episcopal dioceses and publicly protested.
Read moreThe revisionist Bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham immediately made a grab for Holy Cross Japanese Church, putting in two part time preachers following the departure of McDonald whose parish was a constituent member of the Anglican Communion in New Westminster (ACiNW), a coalition of 11 parishes who declared themselves out of communion with the Bishop and Synod of New Westminster after the bishop promoted and allowed same-sex blessings in his diocese.
Read more[b][i]VirtueOnline:[/b] What has happened to your parish family during that time and where is the parish at today?[/i]
[b]Kramer:[/b] Lord, what hasn't happened to us. Initially we were scattered from California to Minnesota to New Jersey. For the first month or so about half the parish was missing.
Read moreThe revisionist bishop of Connecticut conducts a lightning raid on an evangelical parish on trumped up charges that the man was taking an unlawful sabbatical, grabs his personal computer, locks the doors, hires guards to watch the church, and forces a woman priest on the parish against the will of the vestry. Other orthodox parishes wait anxiously to see when the next shoe will drop.
Read moreVirtueOnline: What does the Barnabas Fund (BF) do?
Sookhdeo: It calls attention to the plight of Christian minorities particularly within the Islamic world. It looks at the persecution they are experiencing and seeks to make this known to the wider world. It calls upon the church to pray for, to identify with, and to be advocate for and support practically their suffering brothers and sisters.
Read moreFr. Acker, who is also the Communications Director for Forward in Faith North America, told VirtueOnline that, "we have been accepted this week in the Anglican Province of America as a priest of the Diocese of the West. The congregation will this Sunday make a formal request to become a mission. This is the beginning of the realignment here in San Diego."
Read moreIt recognized "that there are among us persons who experience themselves as having a homosexual orientation. Many of these are members of the Church and are seeking the pastoral care, moral direction of the Church, and God's transforming power for the living of their lives and the ordering of relationships."
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