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July 06 2004 By virtueonline Lambeth power...African bishops could revolt against Williams...US news...

So, the argument goes, when and if the Primates should decide to act against ECUSA's Presiding Bishop, perhaps even Canada's Primate, then it will be largely symbolic, a slap on the wrist action rather than an act of any substance. Dr. Williams will opine that he is virtually powerless to do anything that will substantially change the course of Anglican history that involves substantive discipline. The worst that could happen is a sort of shunning.

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June 29 2004 By virtueonline FIFNA re-energized...two bishops duke it out in PA..NH...Newark...news

But at the 16th Annual Assembly in Bedford, Texas this week, FIFNA emerged re-energized, re-invigorated and hopeful, no longer sensing that they are alone. They have the ear, not only of the Archbishop of Canterbury but the Global South bishops as well. And because of the INTERNET their voices are heard not in days and months but in minutes and hours.

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June 26 2004 By virtueonline Liberal Christianity...Kanuga...Pennsylvania...CofE...Anglican crisis

For if it does it will, like Samson, bring the whole temple down on itself and destroy not only us, but them.

We are fast approaching a time when liberal Christianity, already on a downward slide will, it would now seem, slide inevitably towards its self-appointed oblivion. The mainline Protestant denominations, already in meltdown, are gasping in their death throes. They are on life support using up Trust Funds and endowments with fewer warm bodies and no gospel to proclaim.

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June 21 2004 By virtueonline Tectonic shake in Anglicanism...ACI issues demand for ECUSA discipline...

The groups, all based in the U.S. have come under the chairmanship of the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, ACN Moderator.

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June 15 2004 By virtueonline Communion moves towards brink...Griswold...gay marriage...Libs routed...

It was an interesting use of the word "sanctity" with liberal supporters of the amendment claiming that they did not intend the word "sanctity" to have any theological significance. Not true fired back a number of orthodox Anglicans. They argued that, in Church language, sanctity meant blessed, and they weren't buying it.

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June 06 2004 By virtueonline PLANO WEST affirms faith...Griswold has no confidence among Primates...

British Anglican evangelical, the Rev. Canon Dr. Michael Green who flew in for the occasion, said the church should not run away from the truth but embrace it and not succumb to political correctness, nor allow it to be run by those more interested in the church's canons and constitutions.

"Pleasing Jesus dominated the ethics of the Acts of the Apostles, it should be ours also," said Green. "It is not what the canons say, the question is, are we being obedient to God."

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June 04 2004 By virtueonline OH CANADA...liberal Apb elected Primate...reaction strong...ECUSA bad news

It was clear the Canadians wanted a middle way to the right of Hutchison but couldn't find it, Had Victoria Matthews, Bishop of Edmonton, been a contender she would have won. She is in hospital facing surgery for breast cancer.

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May 30 2004 By virtueonline CANADA: 37th General Synod opens...blessing same sex unions debated...

The blessing of same sex unions, a convulsive issue that is tearing at the heart of the Episcopal Church is also ripping at the very fabric of the Canadian church's 30 dioceses, with only 13 considered orthodox enough to resist changes to the church's received teaching.

The issue is whether General Synod will pronounce on this issue or toss it back to the dioceses. First discussions began on that yesterday.

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May 25 2004 By virtueonline ECUSA avoids hard words of Scripture, Gomez responds to Eames, diocesan reports

Recent Virtuosity digests have demonstrated how some dioceses are succumbing to the practice of magic arts, many more practice out and out falsehood with regard to the ‘faith once delivered’ and on sexuality issues, and Bishop Charles E. Bennison (PA) has said publicly that the church wrote the bible and can therefore rewrite it.

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May 19 2004 By virtueonline Primates Blast Griswold...sexual madness grows in ECUSA...RI...Pittsburgh...

The Primates wrote: “This deliberate disobedience of the revealed will of God in the Holy Scriptures is a flagrant departure from the consensual and clearly communicated mind and will of the Anglican Communion. By this, ECUSA has willfully torn “the fabric of the communion at its deepest level, and as a consequence openly cut themselves adrift and broken the sacramental fellowship of the Communion.”

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