That consistency, especially on mission, raised an interesting thought or me: what if we were to consider this by itself as the content of an Anglican Covenant? What if Section 2 were what we considered – and all we considered? I realize I’m not the only person who has had a similar thought; but I also think it’s worth consideration.
On Nov. 15 1885, Mukasa became the first Catholic martyr, when he was beheaded at Nakivubo. Between December of 1885 and May of 1886 many more converts were wantonly murdered. Mwanga precipitated a showdown in May by ordering the converts to choose between their new faith, and complete obedience to his orders. Those unwilling to renounce their new faith would be subject to death.
The Anglican Church in Canada wants to have a video present wrapped and ready in time for Christmas. Anglican congregations all across Canada are being
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When Bishop Donald Harvey went shopping for a new Primate, he says that race, language and culture was a factor in his choice.
Christian Century describes the work of the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church and a former Pentecostal minister, who worked over four decades to establish legal and religious rights for gays and lesbians before the California Supreme Court decided to give the “right to marry” to same-sex couples.
Today the Café begins a week-long examination of the St. Andrew’s draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant. On each of the next five days, a member of the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies will discuss a section of the proposed covenant on our Daily Episcopalian blog.
This inheritance comes with conditions: we commit to make use of it together with the rest of the large family of which we are members; for it is an inheritance we share. It is in this part of the draft that we agree to commit to covenant promises made to one another, to our brothers and sisters in this Anglican family.
Prayer is the spiritual offering which has abolished the ancient sacrifices. . . . We learn from the gospel what God has asked for. ‘The hour will come,’ we are told, ‘when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. God is spirit, and so this is the kind of worshipper he wants.’ We are the true worshippers and the true priests: praying in spirit, we make our sacrifice of prayer in spirit, an offering which is God’s own and acceptable to him. . . . What will God deny to a prayer which proceeds from spirit and truth, seeing it is he who demands it?