Several former ECUSA parishes have successfully sought ecclesiastical protection from the Southern Cone Province after leaving the Episcopal Church. Many more are scheduled to follow their lead.
Read more"We may be tempted to bail out [of the Anglican Communion], but we are putting others in dire straits if we do. The fall out is regrettable. But the Anglican Communion will never fall apart. The Windsor Report says that if the Episcopal Church does it [consecrate another gay bishop] the African bishops will take a walk. They can't do that as long as they are in communion with Canterbury and he [Rowan Williams] is in communion with us they can never break off."
Read more"As Defender of the Faith, and thereby of the Anglican Communion, I ask you to intervene on behalf of us beleaguered Americans. We can no longer abide an 'episcopagan' church that insults and does violence to our faith. Absent your intervention, our options are increasingly limited: acquiesce to paganism or leave to a faithful branch of Christianity."
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Also included in this list of stories are tales of the orthodox remnant of believers in this Diocese and their struggle against their bishop.
Read moreBennison told the INQUIRER that the diocese was a "safe place for theological experimentation". So what will be the next "theological experimentation"-Mayan human sacrifice rites? But what about orthodox priests like Fr. David Moyer, Fr. David Ousley and Fr. Eddy Rix, it is clearly not a "safe place" for them. Bennison wants them gone and their properties in his control.
Read moreThis claim comes from one who left the Roman Catholic Church for the Anglican Communion whose very identity is based on the doctrinal issue of biblical faith that resulted in separation from Roman Catholicism at the Reformation. Obviously Mark has left Rome for no reasons of faith and doctrine. It is something of a puzzle as to his reason when he claims that issues of doctrine can never justify separation. It is an impossible position for authentic Anglicans to take.
Read moreEvangelicals have blind spots; they can be very thin theologically and historically forgetful.
When Ronald Reagan ran away with the White House after defeating the evangelical Jimmy Carter a new day was heralded for evangelicals - they would bring the nation back to God and all would be well. Liberalism in faith and politics would die out, the nation would return to righteousness, revival would break out, and much more.
Read more"I will be faithful to that process, and have called upon the diocese to be faithful to this process, but if ECUSA as we know it rejects the Anglican Communion's demands for change and starts down a separate path from that of the majority of the Communion, I will seek alignment with an alternative structure as would be provided through the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council." Ultimately that is a decision the diocese would have to make at a special convention, he
Read moreAt the end, though it may still be some way off in the future, the whole Episcopal Church enterprise will fall to the ground because you cannot, truthfully, build a church on a lie.
Read moreVirtueOnline broke the story of these two priests practicing after a report in the independent Christian magazine Christianity Today saying the Episcopal Church had officially accepted Wiccan worshipping practices. The story made the front page in the Philadelphia INQUIRER on Friday Nov. 5. VirtueOnline got an honorable mention.
I have today sent this letter to my Bishop. My wife [The Rev. Glyn Lorraine Ruppe-Melnyk] has sent a similar letter:
Dear Bishop,
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