And this from a movement spawned by Rowan Williams with crucial American support by Frank T. Griswold its U.S. patron and C. Christopher Epting, Bishop of Iowa its co-patron.
Read moreBrenner, a self-described modest priest, said that as unbelievable as it may sound, rarely does he speak out at events of the larger church. "At the five diocesan convocations I've attended in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, I don't believe I've ever spoken on the floor of convocation. At deanery events and greater gatherings of the clergy, I'm not known as one for giving voice."
Read moreWilson, an evangelical priest, said that recently posted FAQs about the Calvary lawsuit on the Diocesan website were accurate and what the revisionist priest is telling people is a total misrepresentation of the truth with diocesan support for the bishop nearly total since General Convention, and every vote in every elected body has borne this out.
Read moreNonetheless the charge stuck as a largely liberal-driven media ran the story around the world. The president was, once again, in hot water if not a minor tsunami of his own.
Read moreIn a phone call to VirtueOnline Fr. Bergman, 34, and the father of three children said, "I think that the ordination of Robinson is the logical conclusion of the contraceptive mentality. When Lambeth approved contraception for married couples in 1930 they set the stage for the Robinson consecration in 2003. You remove the marital act from its purpose and we bless sterile intercourse. It is not a big jump to bless then sterile homosexual intercourse."
Read moreIt is not in the same category as when Edmund Burke wrote so succinctly, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", or Albert Einstein's famous statement, "the world is too dangerous to live in - not because of people who do evil, but because of people who sit and let it happen."
Read moreThree possibilities present themselves. The first is that the Primates will do nothing to shake the status quo. The second is that they will announce a formal split and the Anglican Communion will have two separate spiritual leaders - Rowan Williams will, in all likelihood lead the Western liberal alliance and Peter Akinola the Archbishop of Nigeria will lead the majority of orthodox Anglicans.
Read more Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Last month a group of orthodox leaders met in Plano, Texas to digest the Windsor Report and to plan the next steps in their struggle to reverse the unbiblical direction of ECUSA.
"The report has much in it that can give us hope if our House of Bishops seriously takes to heart the sad divisions among us, and if they listen to the voice of the report with humility and integrity," said Strunk.
Read moreHe believes strongly in a message he is called to proclaim but has nothing to prove. "I am not trying to assert myself," says the slightly bemused theologian. Yet anyone who is around him, and listens to him, senses the power of his unique intellectual rigor that comes from constant engagement with Scripture that is both breath-taking and exciting. He engages the reader in Scripture with an almost child like joy.
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