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October 06 2004 By virtueonline FAIRFAX: Archbishop Akinola Announces Plan for Nigerian Convocation in NA

Akinola explained that the Nigerian convocation in America is patterned after the Church of England's convocation in Europe, as well as ECUSA's convocation in Europe -- where there is already an Anglican presence in some countries.

The convocation will operate as a companion to the Anglican Network of Anglican Communion Diocese and Parishes. Its exact relationship to the Network is not yet defined, noted Fr. Martyn Minns, rector of Truro Church, who was present at the briefing.

October 06 2004 By virtueonline SPOKANE: "It's like being in a train wreck" Bishop Edward Salmon Jr.

KIM LAWTON: The theme of this year's House of Bishops meeting was reconciliation ... finding unity in the midst of profound cultural and theological differences. In a statement written to the Episcopal Church at large, the bishops said, "We are confident that our household of faith is large enough to embrace us all." But they also acknowledged that anger, anguish, and division have been on the rise over issues of homosexuality.

October 05 2004 By virtueonline NEWPORT BEACH: St. James projects beyond legal battle

St. James' rector Praveen Bunyan said he and many church members are like-minded when it comes to spreading the gospel.

"The idea stemmed from our own members wanting to take the good news of Jesus and starting fellowship in different areas," he said.

Church planting literally means to establish churches or ministries in a community. It can be done in different ways, Bunyan said.

October 04 2004 By virtueonline CANADA: Christianity hangs in balance, leading theologian warns

It explains why a rope of fear runs through the churches' legal submissions to the Supreme Court, where hearings begin Wednesday on the constitutionality of the government's intention to authorize same-sex marriage.

October 03 2004 By virtueonline FLORIDA: Clergy Group Gathers Weekly For Prayer

"People are laying down their doctrinal differences and ideologies. While recognizing there are differences, they are laying them aside for the sake of prayer,'' said The Rev. Frank, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church. ``It is the most exciting and wonderful movement of God I've been part of.''

October 03 2004 By virtueonline COLORADO: Church ducks nuptials fight

Though abstentions were not counted, as many as 125 people did not vote. In all, 618 delegates took part in the two-day convention, which ended Saturday at the Holiday Inn Denver International Airport.

The resolution stated that in the Colorado diocese, "Christian marriage is a solemn and public covenant between man and a woman in the presence of God."

October 03 2004 By virtueonline AUSTRALIA: Not gay, just friends says Anglican leader Peter Carnley

"Same sex relationships are best spoken of by using the category of friendship, which does not so much as raise an implication, let alone the logical necessity and thus the expectation, of sexual activity," Dr Carnley told the general synod in Fremantle on Saturday.

"Also, as Christians, we should not allow ourselves to be browbeaten by the permissive society into the view that chastity and abstinence from sexual activity is an entirely unrealistic impossibility among adults."

October 03 2004 By virtueonline ARKANSAS: What's Next? Bishop Maze faces internal diocesan revolt

And they voted to consecrate 10 bishops in dioceses around the country. One of them was the Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay man to achieve that rank within ECUSA.

More than a year later, the effects of that decision upon the 7,500 ECUSA churches are anywhere from positive to negligible to denomination-rending, depending on whom you ask. Likewise, what it means for Arkansans in Episcopal pews depends on where the pew is.

October 03 2004 By virtueonline LONDON: Conservatives fund rival US relief agency

At the weekend, Anglicans in Kenya and Uganda, in a protest against the consecration of the Rt Revd Gene Robinson, who lives with a homosexual partner, refused $125,000 from ECUSA.

The patron of the new Anglican Network fund is the Most Revd Peter Akinola, who was among the first to break communion with ECUSA over the consecration of Bishop Robinson.

October 03 2004 By virtueonline FLORIDA PRIEST FLEES ECUSA FOR AMIA: “Choose this day whom you will serve…”

To put it in the words of the first vow I took at ordination, they constitute the forsaking of “the doctrine, discipline, and worship of Christ, as this Church has received them”. I believe that for a priest to continue in the Episcopal Church is to accede to that new doctrine.

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