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July 10 2004 By virtueonline WASHINGTON D.C.: Anglo-Catholic Parish to Host Griswold, Gomez

Nonetheless, the rector, the Rev. Andrew Sloane, announced in the parish publication, The Epistle, that Bishop Griswold would be at the parish for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter, 2005. Fr. Sloane did not say what role Griswold would play in these observances.

July 10 2004 By virtueonline ARIZONA: Lay Chaplain in Arizona resigns rather than 'Modify' Theology

Ms. Radosevich opposes the decisions of General Convention 2003 regarding human sexuality and disagrees with the national Church, the Diocese of Arizona and diocesan bishop Robert Shahan on the issues of ordination of practicing homosexuals as well as same sex blessings. While she refrained from expressing her opinion regarding these issues in her capacity as lay chaplain, Ms. Radosevich took a stand within the confines of Church of the Epiphany, her home parish.

July 10 2004 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Evangelicals to shun Bishop of St. Albans

Moses was a murder, he pointed out, and St Paul a religious thug before his conversion. The calling, he said, hung on a word ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

The consequences of the call he argued were “a daily struggle with the questions that trouble all of us – about purpose and meaning, about whether what we are doing is really God’s will.”

July 10 2004 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Evangelicals accuse Home Secretary of terror slur

He said that society needed to take on those who "would take our lives because they would reject our faith".

A number of evangelicals complained yesterday that his comments implied that they had been stirring up hatred of non-Christians.

Colin Hart, the director of the Christian Institute, a conservative pressure group, said: "To equate evangelicals with terrorists is an outrage."

July 09 2004 By virtueonline CEN: Tensions hit Eames Commission

Some Commission members are also concerned that the ACC staff will manipulate the proceedings. On Oct 2, The Church of England Newspaper reported that a memorandum to the Archbishop of Canterbury prepared by an ACC staffer, argued that it was imperative that the will of the majority of Primates be frustrated in their plans to discipline the Episcopal Church and diocese of New Westminster, Canada.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline AUSTRALIA: 'We're behind you': Sydney backs Primates

Standing Committee also supported the Primates’ call to the Commission to invoke disciplinary action, if necessary, that could involve ECUSA’s expulsion from the Communion.

It supported the Primates’ view that such extreme action was necessary because Bishop Robinson’s appointment in the Diocese of New Westminster last year demonstrated that ECUSA had ‘abandoned’ the teaching of Scripture as it relates to matters ‘necessary to salvation’.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline VERMONT: First Diocese in Nation to Issue Liturgy for Same-Sex unions

Even though clergy in the Vermont Diocese have been blessing civil unions with the bishop's permission for four years, the report is considered groundbreaking "because it gives explicit permission – which will be shared across the country – for the blessing of same-gender relationships," according to an email message from Rev. Tanya Wallace of St. Paul's.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline ENGLAND: British Politician wants clampdown on Evangelicals

In his speech this afternoon David Blunkett explicitly equated
evangelicals with Islamic terrorists. He talked about “those who would
take our lives because they reject our faith” and went on “…[the new law] applies equally from far right evangelical Christians, to extremists in the Islamic faith.” [See page 2 for fuller transcript.]

The proposal appears to be a new censorship law which allows politicians to decide what is an acceptable religious belief and what isn’t.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline CANADA: North Vancouver Church chooses growth over court battle

In September 2003 the Bishop of New Westminster, the Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham, fired the elected leadership of the parish after the vestry (membership) voted to seek an alternative bishop to lead them. The Bishop acted under Canon 15, an obscure church law that gives the local bishop extraordinary powers over the parish.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline ACNS: Interview with Robin Eames on the work of the Lambeth Commission

1. How would you describe the challenge facing the Lambeth Commission on Communion?

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