The Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, of Christ Church, Oxford gave a paper at the recently completed Modern Churchpeople’s Union Conference. In the paper she highlights the history of the current covenant process and its status right now, showing it to be a structural and diplomatic attempt to solve a theological problem.
Rowan Williams said that his own prayer and hope for the Conference “is not that after two weeks we will find a solution to all our problems but we shall as I have written more than once in some sense find the trust in God and one another that will give us the energy to change in the way God wants us to change.”
Anglican Information is a group close to the Rev. Nicholas Henderson, who was elected bishop of the Diocese of Lake Malawi but prevented from taking
There is no anti-gay political party in the UK, Simon said. There are no votes in gay bashing, no advantage in campaigning to repeal civil unions. The English Church, unlike its American counterpart, is not at the forefront of a movement to extend human and civil rights to persecuted people; the state has already done that, and so the sense of moral urgency is not nearly as great.
A great many Anglicans are similar to that sad traveler: they journey in a country that they do not appreciate with companions they do not understand. Why don’t those unhappy people change their journey’s route?
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, many believed that the Church of England was doomed to become extinct in the New World. . . . William White, rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, was one of the few who believed that the pattern of Christian life established in the Book of Common Prayer could have a place in the new nation.