GAFCON Statement
June 28, 2008
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The final Communique from the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) has been released and is appearing here and at other places around the web this evening.
The Archive
Day: June 28, 2008
The emerging GAFCON agenda
June 28, 2008
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So, it’s not about schism, they said repeatedly as GAFCON got underway, and as it wraps up, one emerging line of thought is that it certainly isn’t about schism, nor is it about homosexuality nor even about holding fast to scripture: It’s about power. George Pitcher, writing in the Telegraph, opines that some bishops might be feeling a bit duped at this point if they thought otherwise.
Differing convocations
June 28, 2008
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Bishop Pierre Whalon corrects some flawed logic invoked at GAFCON about non-geographical jurisdictions, given his experience overseeing the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, and points out the flaw in trying to use the convocation as a model/precedent/justification for CANA. The Convocation of American Churches in Europe ministers to expatriates, people working or stationed abroad, and immigrants to Europe.
Instant—and very reluctant—pop stars
June 28, 2008
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The Cistercian monks of Heiligenkreuz, Austria, made headlines when they were signed to produce an album of Gregorian Chants and again when the album was released in Europe last month and entered the charts in the top 10 in several countries (and at No. 1 in Austria). They are now coping with a flood of publicity that’s interfering with their traditionally contemplative life, and have had to put one monk in charge of public relations.
Gay Kenyans sending message to Lambeth Conference
June 28, 2008
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Kenyan Anglican clergy, gays and allies are sending a strong message of affirmation and inclusiveness to the bishops at the forthcoming Lambeth conference in July-August, 2008. And Kalamazoo students will be performing a play, Seven Passages, at the Lambeth fringe events.
Helping the Hopeline
June 28, 2008
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Earlier this month, a fellow social media producer from another corner of the blogosphere shared a draft of a video he was working on to bring attention to the 10th anniversary of 1-800-SUICIDE, also known as the Hopeline. The final version came out earlier this week, and in it, Kristin Brooks Hope Center founder Reese Butler talks about why he created the Hopeline, and some of the challenges the organization now faces as a privately funded charity operation entering its second decade of connecting callers with, as he puts it, help and hope.
Only faith
June 28, 2008
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While the Anglican/Episcopal world sits all atremble, watching as the Anglican bishops speak out in Jerusalem of their own disenfranchisement and waiting with excitement or trepidation the upcoming Lambeth Conference, life as a lesbian Episcopalian goes on.
The harmony of the whole
June 28, 2008
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Many and various are the things that are made. When you take them in detail they are mutually antagonistic and discordant. But, taken in connection with the whole creation, they are agreeable and harmonious. Just as the sound of the harp, composed of many different notes, makes one symphony.
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