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5 February 2007
Quote of the week: "All addictions are imprisonments for the soul and therefore any form of addiction is something that ought to be of concern to the population at large and, as to the religious population in particular." The Archbishop of Canterbury London: Drive to bar liberal from Church's crisis summit California: Episcopal diocese may abandon US Church Second church in two months votes to leave Diocese of San Diego CANA as Anglican as the Diocese of Virginia USA: Diocese sues 11 seceding congregations over property issues Its closer than we think - the three parent family New map shows non-ECUSA aligned Anglican Communion churches across the USA Primates meeting agenda released "Casinos will imprison your soul" - Archbishop of Canterbury 29 January 2007 Quote of the week: “That is why we are saying in Nigeria and indeed in Africa that if the Lambeth Conference resolutions and consensus-building will be of no use to some people, it is not worth attending,” Archbishop Akinola Archbishop of Canterbury to meet with Canadian bishops The largest episcopal congregation in the USA leaves the TEC and joins AMiA 'Mere Anglicanism' conference supports "A Covenant for the Church of England" Bishop Duncan and Bishop McPherson to attend Tanzania Primates meeting An Anglican Mission order in the Americas: Chris Sugden reports on the AMiA conference Covenant design group submits draft to Primates Archbishop Akinola: Sexuality issue must be resolved before Lambeth Archbishop of Kenya ordains deacon in Florida Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali: Anglican Communion needs to learn again how to be a world wide church Neuhaus: He who pays the piper... (The collapse of the protestant establishment in the USA) Pediatricians agree on homosexual adoption PB Schori on attending the Tanzania meetings Canon Chris Sugden: Good News to the Poor and the Crisis in the Anglican Communion 22 January 2007 AMiA Conference: reports from virtueonline Global South Primates will act together in Tanzania Central African Primate will resist pro-gay cleric's bishop bid AMiA winter conference draws largest turnout ever Presiding Bishop defines existence of congregations by relation to Bishops Nigerian Bishops warn of schism in Anglican church Nigeria: Anglicans elect 20 bishops in one night Memphis: Churches request church of Kenya to form diocese and provide bishop Nassau: Anglican Covenant Committee meets Revisionist bishop attacks Archbishop of Canterbury 15 January 2007 Quote of the week: Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori has claimed that “As a biologist I look at the natural world where same-sex behaviour is present in many, many species. Today we can look at sexual development happening very early in a person’s life. As a person of faith I would look at that and say, it happens before the age of reason; it’s a matter of creation, not a matter of choice.” Dr Lisa Severine Nolland writes:"Ms Jefferts Schori would do well to listen to members of the psychiatric world, in whose realm this issue more appropriately lies. And some of them acknowledge the reality of change in sexual orientation." read the debate here on Ruth Gledhill's blog Ex-gay leader in exchange of letters with Nigerian Archbishop Archbishop Bernard Nzimbi banned from preaching in TEC diocese Audio CD's of Mario Bergner's lecture: Healing Human Sexuality - order here (Mario came from a deeply dysfunctional home and spent years in the US gay scene. God touched him and slowly changed his entire life, including his sexuality. He is now married and the father of five. Mario is neither triumphalistic nor simplistic, and is able to ’speak the truth in love’ with wisdom and grace. His message is a powerful one of hope and healing for the sexually fallen, compromised and wounded - for us all. Visit his website here) Anglican Primates Meeting: Prayer campaign Profile of new Primate of Ireland Same sex "marriage", "hate crimes" and the new totalitarianism 8 January 2007 Quote of the week: "God is consistent: He has always used Africans to build his church, to save his church from error. Right from the very beginning," says Mr. Akinola, dressed in the traditional garb of his Yoruba ethnic group, a large wooden cross hanging from his neck. "Africans are always there to do it!" read here Archbishop fears schism in gay row An African Archbishop finds common ground in Virginia, USA Canon Chris Sugden: A Covenant for a Confused Church Christmas and New Year messages from Archbishop Rowan Williams and Archbishop Akinola Archbishop of Canterbury faces clash over gay 'marriages' of 50 priests 2 January 2007 Quote of the week: "When new legislation is created that relativizes marriage, the rejection of the definitive bond gains, so to speak, juridical endorsement. Relativizing the difference between the sexes ... tacitly confirms those bleak theories which seek to remove all relevance from a human being's masculinity or femininity, as if this were a purely biological matter." Pope Benedict XVI Archbishop of Canterbury writes to the Primates Peter Toon: Does each person in Baptism make a covenant with God? Pope: Homosexuals destroy themselves- church has a duty to speak out John Piper: an interesting look at heresy vs schism Covenant legitimate act of protest as CofE in danger of sleep walking to liberal oblivion Archbishop of Sydney responds to Covenant for the Church of England 19 December 2006 Quote of the week: "I have been in consultation with the other Primates and Archbishops of Africa and the Global South about this crisis in our beloved Anglican Communion. We have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury and informed him that we cannot sit together with Katharine Jefferts Schori at the upcoming Primates Meeting in February. We have also asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to invite an orthodox Bishop from the Anglican Communion Network in America to attend the Primates Meeting and represent the orthodox believers". Archbishop Henry Orombi BBC profiles Archbishop Peter Akinola Chris Sugden: Two Religions in One Church Kendal Harmon: the loss of nearly 115 000 members by the TEC is the equivalent of the loss of 16 smaller dioceses Virginia USA : In 9 parishes 5000 episcopalians vote to leave diocese and the Episcopal Church; more parishes expected to follow Ireland High Court Rules Against Gay ‘Marriage’ Citing Harm to Children Archbishop Orombi: Primates of Africa and the Global South will not sit with Schori at the next Primates meeting and Ugandan bishops may not attend Lambeth 2008 if TEC (ECUSA) also invited Bishop of Rochester supports proposed covenant for CofE Tanzanian House of Bishops declare they are “not in communion” with Bishops who ordain homosexuals or permit the blessing of same sex unions 12 December 2006 Quote of the week: "Jesus asked His disciples, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A man clothed in soft garments?” John the Baptist, of course, was no such man, and neither are WORLD’s 2006 Daniels of the Year Peter Jasper Akinola and Henry Luke Orombi. Their biblical stands are making a difference not only in Africa but in the United States, as the crisis in the oldest American denomination reaches its climax." (Mindy Belz profiles the 'Daniels of the Year') USA: Two major parishes move to break with TEC - Truro and Falls Church Virginia respond to Bishop England: Liberal Bishops face evangelical backlash (In a dramatic escalation in the Church of England's civil war over homosexual clergy, scores of evangelical churches will break their historic links with liberal bishops who oversee their parishes.) WORLD'S 2006 Daniels of the Year: Peter Akinola and Henry Orombi Archbishop Akinola 'banned' from preaching in Sheffield diocese ; an apology is in order-Andrew Carey Archbishop Greg Venables address to Diocese of San Joaquin 4 December 2006 Quote of the week: "At a diocesan level, the choice is between continuing membership in an unrepentant, apostate institution or following Holy Scripture and the Anglican faith. Whether or not the Diocese of San Joaquin will continue its institutional membership in The Episcopal Church is a choice that will be made by the people and the clergy and not by me."(The Bishop of San Joaquin responds to Bishop Schori; read here) Diocese of San Joaquin votes to identify with the Anglican Communion rather than TEC Primatial Vicar proposed by TEC for orthodox parishes; Proposal dead in the water - Bishops Duncan and Iker Britian: Don't impose your morality - Catholic Archbishop attacks gay rights bill Anglican Communion Network launches parish locator (Going to the USA? - A help for those needing to find an orthodox Anglican place of worship) The Sin of Tolerance: Billy Graham The Episcopal Church (TEC)/ Archbishop Ndungane conference (March 2007) website 27 November 2006 Quote of the week: "As with most leaders of the Christian Left, Bishop Jefferts Schori appears be very Left, but not very Christian. Her example shows the way that this new movement of religious liberals amounts to little more than a desperate effort to use the language of faith to repackage the tired ideas of secular, utopian leftism and moral relativism that have failed so spectacularly wherever they’ve been tried around the world." (Townhall.com - read article here) Common Declaration of Pope Benedict XVI and Abp of Canterbury 'Secularism, Faith and Freedom’:Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture given at the pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Rome (A powerful and timely word) NYT goes rad - a step further in the deconstruction of marriage More on that Schiori interview Prof Robert Gagnon- The Haggard Episode and the case for gay marriage: why they have no connection Human Rights, homosexuality and the Anglican Communion: Reflections in the light of Nigeria (A thoughtful article by Dr Ephraim Radner and Dr Andrew Goddard, addressing the concerns surrounding homosexuality, the law and human rights, over at Fulcrum) Pursuing the desired outcome of the 'Windsor process' - a GSSC report Vicars could be sued for refusing to bless gay unions, fears church 20 November 2006 Quote of the week: "The Episcopal church is wooing the New Zealand church into a new communion. And I think a number of radical bishops here are trying to exploit the weakness in our constitutional system in order to drive us into the hands of the American church and share their fate....Essentially, what the Bishop of Dunedin has done is relegated New Zealand to a second-tier status along with the US and Canada. He has already released a statement acknowledging that..." Revd Malcolm Falloon, warden of the Latimer Fellowship Two interviews with Rowan Williams: The Catholic Herald; The Church Times Diocese of San Joaquin lays groundwork to leave TEC Two largest churches in Virginia diocese vote to leave the TEC New Zealand Church in an 'ungovernable state' South Africa: civil unions bill passed by parliament Mario Bergner: Pastoral care for homosexuality The Archbishop of York on faith and freedom 14 November 2006 Diocese of San Joaquin lays groundwork to leave TEC Southern Cone Province affirms 'impaired communion' with TEC Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali speaks on the moral vacuum in Britain, Prince Charles and Islam Latimer Fellowship writes to the Bishop of Dunedin and to New Zealand Archbishops Christianity without the cross Statement by Global South steering committee South African Bishops divided over same sex marriage bill TEC Membership loss 'precipitous' (active membership drops by 115 000 in 3 years) 6 November 2006 Quote of the week: "Her message fits well into Deism or Unitarianism or any kind of theism, which has no distinctive message of the absolute need of personal salvation from sin and corrupt society into a new people of God being saved for eternal life in the kingdom of heaven of the age to come with the Lord Jesus Christ and his saints. Her shalom lacks the biblical dimension of peace with God in terms of everlasting salvation in and through Jesus Christ and the creation of a new people of God, who are destined to be the very center of a renewed and regenerated cosmos". (Revd Dr Peter Toon, writing on Schori's investiture sermon) What was missing at Schori investiture? (no confession of sin,no ACN bishops present...) Read the sermon here American Daily: "Christian author and philosopher Os Guinness says the Episcopal Church’s incoming Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is 'not an orthodox believer'" Bishop of Dunedin (New Zealand) ignores protest at ordination service (Latimer Fellowship issues statement of protest at ordination of homosexually active man) Carey banned but an Imam is OK at Welsh cathedral Pittsburgh Episcopalians vote to withdraw from the National Church Primates to meet Archbishop Williams to discuss formation of new replacement Anglican structure for North America New Presiding Bishop of TEC on human sexuality and other faiths (interviewer: "What are you: a Unitarian?!?" ) 30 October 2006 Quote of the week: “Orwell optimistically thought that the decay is reversible, but “to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.” By definition, however, regeneration is not the desire of the degenerate. The clarity of thought urged, for instance, by Pope Benedict is considered scandalous. The historian Toynbee said that civilizations die, not by invasion, but by suicide. Under the guise of sophistication, the moral lights of culture begin to dim when wordplay is considered an amusing game and not a sinister plot.” You know the rotting & empty zombie-words: community, diversity, sensitivity, tolerance, open, process, rights, experience, justice, empower, sharing, nurture, unity, dis/ enfrancise, inclusion, peace, issue … (firstthings) FIRST THINGS: The murder of words The future of Anglicanism: an end to Western hegemony - Bp Duncan Abp Williams quizzes PB elect Schori about Windsor Report and Abp Williams meets with PB elect Four Primates offer to meet with Dioceses requesting APO Ties with the US church are too strong - AMSA TEC (ECUSA) is America's cultural elite at prayer - Abp Jensen Chris Sugden: Consensus,co-option and Communion Things have changed forever in the Anglican Communion - Sydney 23 October 2006 Quote of the week: "Inevitably to those most under pressure from decisions in New Westminster (and TEC), this looks like a policy of infinite deferral by impotent Communion structures in the face of constant harassment by powerful diocesan and provincial structures determined to disregard Communion appeals. Once again, the danger is that the Communion instruments and such bodies as the Panel will be seen as unable to keep up with the pace of events on the ground." (Anglican Communion Institute on the recommendations of the Panel of Reference) Report on visit to China by Archbishops of Nigeria and South East Asia Church of Ireland “must provide clearer lead on same-sex partnerships” REFORM backs Kigali Communique Kigali and the Anglican Communion’s future The Gay Invention - Homosexuality is a linguistic as well as a moral error 16 October Quote of the week: “All across the Global South, a whole series of strange, beautiful roads are being built to the promised New Jerusalem. Some of them seem to be bypassing Athens. And that, as Jenkins persuasively suggests, poses hard questions for those of us who came to where we are by way of Jerusalem and Athens” …. (firstthings) Third World Christianities and the future Archbishop Yong Ping Chung answers Dean Colin Slee’s critique of Kigali Kigali is wrong - Dean Slee Canada: Panel of Reference's response inadequate - Archbishops Gomes and Venables; ACIC comments here New Bishop of Nelson, NZ pledges to “hold high the flag of evangelical orthodoxy” New website offers support for adult children of homosexuals Public Policy should promote marriage…and confer benefits not available to those not in an enduring legal relationship: Church of England What you are not meant to know: by Dr Lisa Nolland 9 October Quote of the week: "In contrast, perhaps it is some of those in the declining churches of the West (having disregarded the mind of the Communion and breached the bonds of communion in the name of ‘autonomy’) who, in the light of Scripture and our history, risk - to adapt Giles’ words - undermining and sidetracking us, foreclosing the possibility of true dialogue by unilateral ‘prophetic’ actions, damaging the spread of the Gospel of Christ both in their own provinces and across the Communion, and potentially finishing off the Communion rather than helping it towards fulfilment." Andrew Goddard Fulfilled or Finished: Andrew Goddard responds to Inclusive Church Do same-sex unions undermine marriage? Seminaries in a post Christian landscape Archbishop Williams keynote speaker at Anglican Congress in South Africa Canada: Attack on religious freedom "The appointment of Gene Robinson has created division ... wrecked mission in the church" - Carey Massachusetts: Episcopal Diocese may quit marriages Pastoral letter from Bishop Bob Duncan, Moderator of the ACN Global South Communique an 'Epoch-making statement' says executive secretary of Mainstream Williams told to act over gay clergy or face summit boycott 2 October Quote of the week: "Anyone who works in the field of HIV/Aids knows that for change to happen in your behaviour you need to know yourself. The Bible is a resource to discover the truth about yourself and by which to judge yourself. The Bible gives a connection with the transcendant reality of God who forgives, frees and transforms. It is also the case that no one can sustain such change on their own, they need a community who will support them in that change. That is the church." Vinay Samuel. We are two churches, not one: Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt Chris Sugden: The Truth shall make you free Canada: Former Toronto Archbishop in lesbian wedding row Ed Hird: The Battle for the Soul of Canada - (a new book,"Battle for the Soul of Canada is both contemporary church history and uplifting Scriptural commentary. The Revd Ed Hird tells the personal story that forms one great chapter of the renewal of orthodox Anglican witness in Canada at the beginning of the 21st century." - Bishop Bob Duncan) Brazilian leaders create pro-unity movement CofE expected to revise Civil Partnership guidelines Anglican Mainstream Southern Africa Statement Presiding Bishop Griswold responds to Kigali and Camp Allen Archbishop John Chew responds to Archbishop Ndungane |
| A PRAYER: "Most gracious God, we humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth; in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where any thing is amiss, reform it; where it is right, strengthen and confirm it; where it is in want, furnish it; where it is divided and rent asunder, make it whole again; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." ... (Daily, please) |