Those who have already left the Episcopal Church for greener spiritual pastures like the AMIA, REC, TAC, Orthodox or Roman Catholic churches now berate those who stay and ask the question, "Why do you stay in such an apostate church?"
Read moreThe Nigerian primate, who heads the largest Anglican province in the world, ridiculed the policy by asking the Church of England bishops if they were intending to place cameras in the bedrooms of their clergy. He said that Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, and his church should now face disciplinary action.
Read moreBut now the situation has been since Dromantine, put by orthodox Primates of the Global South, that the decision is up to the Episcopal Church General Convention and the Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada whether these two provinces will choose to walk with us or choose to walk apart. The onus is on them, not on the orthodox who just wish to remain faithful to the church's received teaching.
Read moreIf you had any doubt about that, the actions of Bishop Andrew Smith in the Diocese of Connecticut confirmed it this past week. He, like his fellow revisionist bishops Smith is worse than a canonical fundamentalist. He twists the canons for his own purposes. These bishops care nothing for the 'faith once delivered to the saints,' only in their ecclesiastical power governed by General Convention resolutions, not Holy Scripture.
Read moreA VirtueOnline columnist and former UPI Religion editor Uwe Siemon-Netto who was in London at the time of the blasts wrote this. "Here's the difference: in Washington, people poured into churches and synagogues. In London, they rushed to the pubs by the hundreds of thousands."
Read moreDear Brothers and Sisters,
THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, said at the conclusion of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Nottingham that most of his hopes for the ACC meeting had been met.
There had been an "underlining" of the primates' recommendation to ECUSA and Canada, and what they had done at Dromantine had been reinforced, he said in an interview with the Church Times.
Read moreIt was the Fourth Instrument of Unity doing its best to show everyone why it needs to continue to exist, (if indeed it does) and why it needs money from the North American church to stay afloat. "Listening," the now favored buzzword for paying attention to the continuing heartfelt whine of homosexuals, is now the new stream of Anglican consciousness that will carry it forward on the river of hopefulness into a splendid future of sexual enlightenment, courtesy of North American checkbooks.
Read moreThere has been considerable anger expressed by several orthodox organizations about the public exposure of the Canadian and ECUSA and the fawning attitude of Canon Kenneth Kearon, ACC secretary general in his praise of ECUSA, and there was a lot of rumbling and noise on Monday about the seating of both provinces as "observers" not "delegates" while seeming to be treated like delegates. Cynthia Brust of the American Anglican Council has blasted the ACC for this.
Read moreTo that end they launched a newly formed body called Anglican Essentials Canada to show the Canadian Anglican Church they have no intention of "walking apart" from the global Anglican Communion.
Two other organizations were also launched: the Essentials Federation and the Anglican Network in Canada. Both will come under the umbrella of Anglican Essentials Canada.
Read moreThus spake a moderately orthodox bishop to a friend of mine this week. The truth is that some 36 or more dioceses are suffering financially; hundreds of churches, possibly 2,000 or more cannot support a full-time rector, and it is only the bishop using trust funds that can enable missions and small parishes even to stay open.
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