Updated Saturday morning: The controversy centers on two clauses that refer Section 4 of the Covenant to a small working group appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury for further study. The working group is expected to take six to nine months to do its work. The proposed covenant will not be sent to the provinces until after Section 4 has been reconsidered.
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The Anglican Consultative Council has embraced the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group. An effort to include a moratorium that would have forbidden the Episcopal Church from going to court to maintain control of its property was defeated, but the moratoria on same-sex blessings and consecration of partnered gay bishops have been approved.
Mad Priest writes: my initial thought is that there must now be a formal coalition between, what I will refer to from now on as, the provinces of Episcopal Anglicanism and a way for all Episcopal christians, even those who do not live in these provinces, to become aligned with and cared for by this new coalition.
Colin Coward of Changing Attitude has had a run-in with two bullies with press credentials at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Jamaica. Read his reflections on these encounters.
The lawyer representing St. James, Newport Beach in its lawsuit against the Diocese of Los Angeles is John C. Eastman, dean of the Chapman University School of Law, who recently teemed with the “visiting professor and Bush White House “torture memo” author John Yoo in April to debate two other Chapman law profs in Memorial Hall about presidential power in wartime.
God is the goodness that cannot be angry, for He is nothing but goodness.
Our soul is one-ed to Him, who is unchangeable goodness,
and between God and our soul is neither anger nor forgiveness, as He sees it.
If there had been a deliberate campaign to isolate the Eucharist from everyday life, and seal it off a in a purely ritual context, the results could have hardly been more successful. But of course there hasn’t been. It’s just that the desire for efficiency and an almost superstitious concern with what we suppose to be reverence have created conditions for severing the roots of sacramental practice from our everyday lives.