Tuesday and Wednesday were more hopeful. Meeting with many of our
British, Canadian and Latin partners, including Archbishops Venables
and Gomez, it became clearer that the determinative moment is not the
report, but the Primates meeting for which the report was
The division of views is deep and the Commission have taken them seriously. Their rebuke to unilateral action is clear and firm: before making innovations of this kind provinces and dioceses should consult the Communion. Provincial autonomy is not the same as provincial independence; it is autonomy within the Communion.
Read more"Because of this vacuum in leadership and vision, the diocese is floundering in all areas," the report stated.
The report also called the relationship between Bane and Suffragan Bishop Carol J. Gallagher disastrous. The degree to which the two disagree is legendary, and until very recently communication between them did not exist, the report said.
Read moreWe are concerned that the repentance needed for true reconciliation as we believe the Commission intended could be read only as an “expression of regret” from the Episcopal Church USA and New Westminster. In addition, the report could be interpreted as drawing equivalence between crossing jurisdictional boundaries and breaking faith.
Read moreEvery time my liberal instincts threaten to get the better of my evangelical ones, I have an encounter like this and turn into a foaming fundamentalist.
Read moreWith about 2.3 million members, the Episcopal Church is part of a federation of 38 largely independent regional Anglican churches around the world. Although the Episcopal Church represents only a tiny fraction of the 77 million Anglicans worldwide, its election and confirmation last year of an openly gay bishop threatened to split the communion.
Read moreGene Robinson was responding to a report which called on the American Church to apologise for consecrating him last November as a bishop.
A senior Nigerian Anglican leader has condemned the report as unbalanced.
Archbishop Peter Akinola accused liberals of being "hell bent" on destroying the Anglican communion.
Read moreI have not been able to speak before this for a variety of reasons. When the reports first came out I was still in England. Before I had a chance to read them I was in the air flying home.
Read more"Lambeth did get it right," Dr Thompson said. "For almost 2000 years Scripture has been unambiguous. Is it not our own postmodern culture that has caused us to question this?"
Lecturer in Ethics at Moore, Dr Andrew Cameron, urged the Synod to remember that "Christians have always understood that sexuality has been purposed towards marriage".
Read moreThe report also asks calls for a moratorium on further blessings and asks bishops who have authorized the blessings – including Vancouver Bishop Michael Ingham -- to apologize or consider withdrawing from “representative participation” in the Anglican Communion.
The report recommends individual Anglican jurisdictions to promise not to make decisions that threaten to impair the unity of the church worldwide.
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