The New York location would be more or less centrally located in the original nine Episcopal statewide dioceses of: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and South Carolina. These founding dioceses are memorialized by the nine small white stylized Jerusalem crosses in the classic blue field in the top left corner of the Episcopal shield and church flag.
Read moreIt also signals that revisionist provinces in the West no longer hold the high ground in global Anglicanism as increasingly orthodox Anglicans breakaway from their revisionist bishops and clergy to form new faithful Anglican parishes and dioceses.
Read moreThe new bishop of Virginia, E. Mark Stevenson, also a conservative, decided to change his mind on the hot button issue and easily obtained consents.
It's doubtful that had Holt been duly elected he would have gotten consents from the church's House of Bishops. "Beloved Community" is the fabled fiction of PB Michael Curry, another source opined. Curry's much-ballyhooed "beloved community" clearly does not include priests and bishops who do not roll over to the homosexual zeitgeist.
Read moreThe Most Rev. Geoffrey Smith, Primate of Australia and Archbishop of Adelaide noted the formal launch of the Diocese of the Southern Cross. The new diocese will be under the leadership of Bishop Glenn Davies, retired Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales.
Read more"In Lambeth 1:10, we are standing for the authority of the bible. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Anything else is queering the authority of the bible. It is not just about sexuality but the authority of the bible. But do we? I would think no. It is not respecting the authority of scripture."
Jensen said the GAFCON bishops played a leading role in holding Welby to account. He said Welby squashed the dissent of the orthodox bishops present.
Read moreThe ten seminaries which cater to and cooperate with The Episcopal Church are: Berkeley Divinity School at Yale (Connecticut); Bexley Seabury-Western Theological Foundation (Illinois); Episcopal Divinity School at Union (New York); Church Divinity School of the Pacific (California); General Theological Seminary (New York); Nashotah House Theological Seminary (Wisconsin); Sewanee School of Theology at The University of the South (Tennessee); Seminary of the Southwest (Texas); Trinity School fo
Read more"The Primates of Brazil, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, North America, Rwanda, and Uganda, and many bishops from all over the Anglican Communion in the GAFCON movement did not attend the Lambeth Conference because to do so would violate their consciences. However, we respected the decision of our brother Primates whose consciences led them to go to Lambeth and contend for the Gospel and the Holy Scriptures. The power of their presence magnified the power of our absence," said Beach.
Read moreOne of the bishops said, "that people will rarely turn into disciples unless you're intentional about making them." Practical advice, but no one even gave a definition of discipleship, let alone its practical outworking. Who and what is a disciple, pray tell?
Read moreRe-affirming Lambeth 1.10 was a clarion call to base the Communion's ethical teaching on holy Scripture.
Read moreTo millions of evangelical Anglicans, that is a red cape to an evangelical bull. The creation of the Ordinariate by the Roman Catholic Church picked off Anglo-Catholics fed up with the revisionism of The Episcopal Church, but still and all, a large group of Anglo-Catholics remain loyal to Anglicanism. Anglicanism has positioned itself as the Via Media Church between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism which developed within Anglicanism by at least the seventeenth century.
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