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Day: September 17, 2007

As if things weren’t complicated enough

September 17, 2007 1 Comment

The Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, the Most Rev. Peter Jensen, is said to be moving forward with plans to institute lay presidency of the Holy Eucharist as an integral part of the ministry of the Diocese of Sydney. Significantly, the plan is to do this under the cover of existing canons, designed for others purposes, so that past legislative defeated by the rest of the Anglican Church of Australia can be ignored.

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This week’s news

September 17, 2007 3 Comments

The House of Bishops meets this week with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates Meeting and the Anglican Consultative

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A moral duty

September 17, 2007 No Comments

The Most Rev. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, says the situation in “Zimbabwe cannot any more be seen as an African problem needing an African

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Hopes for New Orleans

September 17, 2007 5 Comments

It is not within the power of the House of Bishops, the Joint Standing Committee or Archbishop Williams to stop Archbishop Akinola and his allies from breaking from the Anglican Communion. But it is within their power to appeal to the substantial minorities in the Church and the Communion who are uneasy about the course the Episcopal Church has charted, but appalled by the rhetoric and tactics of Akinola and his virulent friends.

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Hildegard of Bingen

September 17, 2007 2 Comments

Jesus Christ, the love that gives love,

You are higher than the highest star;

You are deeper than the deepest sea;

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Saving Zimbabwe is not colonialism, it’s Britain’s duty

September 17, 2007 No Comments

That’s the headline on the op-ed by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, in the Observor. The archbishop writes, “The time has come for Mr Brown finally to slay the ghosts of Britain’s colonialist past by thoroughly revising foreign policy towards Zimbabwe and to lead the way in co-ordinating an international response. The time for ‘African solutions’ alone is now over.”

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