In his address Bishop Duncan said, “the Network Bishops have agreed to take part in the upcoming meeting [of the House of Bishops] with the Archbishop of Canterbury…. We do so … without any without any expectation that the Episcopal House of Bishops will turn from the course so unequivocally embraced at their March meeting.”
“It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God… Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.” So said Ingmar Bergmann, who died today at 89.
So long as the arguments were about whether or not The Episcopal Church or the Anglican Church of Canada were to be part of the Anglican Communion, communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury was seen as essential to being part of the Anglican Communion. Now that the arguments are about a Communion free of Western heresy, Canterbury is seen as a burden.
The Diocese of Pittsburgh is furnishing its parishes with a toolbox of “materials, opinions and news about the choices facing the diocese and each parish in light of the decision of The Episcopal Church not to place moratoria on same-sex blessings and the election of bishops in same-sex relationships and to unequivocally reject the request of Pittsburgh and six other dioceses for Alternative Primatial Oversight.”
Peter Akinola: Let me also say this: that in our human existence in this world, there was a time Africans were slaves; but we came out of it. But what again followed? Political slavery, under colonial administration. Somehow, we came out of it. Then economic slavery: World Bank, IMF would tell you what to do with your money and your own resources. Now, it is spiritual slavery and we have to resist this.
I’m always astonished that Christian folk don’t esteem adoption more highly in the context of “family values.” Adoption has been part of biblical traditions about the family for 5,000 years.
Compared with the work of the Quakers, the Salvation Army, or Anglo-Catholic “slum priests” later in the nineteenth century, the Evangelical movement has sometimes been accused of lacking a spirituality of social engagement. This is an unfair generalization. It is true that “action” implied an active spreading of the word of God (evangelism) expressed, for example, in the work of the Church Missionary Society throughout the British Empire.
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