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November 03 2008
Sydney Lay Presidency...Canada Drifts on Gays...Quincy Bishop Quits...More
For just as we go to the doctor only when we admit that we are ill and cannot cure ourselves, so we will go to Christ only when we admit that we are guilty sinners and cannot save ourselves. The same principle applies to all our difficulties. Deny the problem, and nothing can be done about it; admit the problem, and at once there is the possibility of a solution.
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October 25 2008
Litigation Highlights TEC Week...Covenant Nixed by Schori...ABC Meets Duncan
It was a week of litigation across the country in The Episcopal Church.
In a civil court in Norristown, just outside Philadelphia, Charles E. Bennison, the disgraced and deposed Bishop of Pennsylvania, faced four days on charges he committed fraud and deceit in denying Fr. David L. Moyer a trial for allegations that he abandoned the communion of the church.
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October 16 2008
Episcopal Church in Numerical Decline...Legal Fights Continue..CofE Faces Schism
To deviate from the middle way is to risk being dubbed an 'extremist' or a 'fanatic'. Everybody resents being faced with the necessity of a choice. But Jesus will not allow us to escape it. --- From "The Message of the Sermon on the Mount" by John R.W. Stott
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October 11 2008
Pittsburgh Punts...PB Pitches New Reorganized Diocese...Tensions Mount...More
Law and liberty. Christian liberty is not inconsistent with law any more than love is. True, Christians are not 'under law' in that our salvation does not depend on obedience to the law. Yet this does not relieve us of the obligation to keep the law. The freedom with which Christ has made us free is not freedom to break the law, but freedom to keep it. 'I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought your precepts' (Ps. 119:45).
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October 03 2008
Pittsburgh Faces J-Day...Diocese of VA Settles Some Lawsuits...Williams Must Go
Stupid quote of the week: "As I looked into the eyes of Katharine Jefferts Schori that day I believed in my heart that she sincerely wanted to create a reconciling spirit in the Episcopal Church that would find a respectful place for all of us." Rev. Brian Cox, professional reconciler and Episcopal priest.
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September 27 2008
Williams Silent on Duncan...ABC at Lourdes Looks for Miracle...More
The gift of faith. We must never think of salvation as a kind of transaction between God and us in which he contributes grace and we contribute faith. For we were dead, and had to be quickened before we could believe. No, Christ's apostles clearly teach elsewhere that saving faith too is God's gracious gift.--- From "The Message of Ephesians" from The Bible Speaks Today)
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September 20 2008
Duncan's Deposition Captures World Attention...Global South Reject HOB Action...
A mysterious exchange. If we come to Christ and put our trust in him, a marvelous but mysterious exchange takes place. He takes away our sins, and clothes us with his righteousness instead. In consequence, we stand before God 'not trusting in our own righteousness, but in God's manifold and great mercies', not in tattered rags of our own morality but in the spotless robe of the righteousness of Christ.
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September 20 2008
HOB Performs Ecclesiastical Execution On One Of Its Own
Bishop Duncan continues to have the respect of a majority of the primates and bishops of the entire Anglican Communion, including the Archbishop of Canterbury," wrote Network and Common Cause leaders.
It was an execution, a lynching, said a spokesman for the American Anglican Council.
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September 12 2008
Ft. Worth and Pittsburgh Dioceses Ready to Leave TEC..Bishop Inhibition Lifted
Faith goes beyond reason, but rests on it. Knowledge is the ladder by which faith climbs higher, the springboard from which it leaps further. --- From "The Message of Ephesians" (The Bible Speaks Today)
"We have not resolved the differences among us, but have seen the deep need to maintain relationships, even in the face of significant disagreement and discomfort," --- Katharine Jefferts Schori
"Can two walk together except they be agreed?" --- Amos 3:3
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September 05 2008
GAFCON is Future of Anglican Communion..Two Orthodox TEC Dioceses To Work Closer
"The world has changed for gay men. I have to add the ritual disclaimer that of course there's still homophobia, but the fact is that in law we have all-but total equality. Yet we continue to behave as if we are a disconnected minority, shut out from the world of responsibility. Gay men have a lot of catching up to do. Hooked on drugs and sex and looks, we call it gay culture. The figures are staggering: 20% of gay men in London use the incredibly damaging crystal meth.
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