I remember sitting in a pub in Canterbury with several of the Cathedral Canons, and after the second pint, one said “You Americans need to get with the program and use the same polity as the rest of the Communion.” My response was something like, “Perhaps you forget, that there was a revolution in the colonies and I believe your side lost.”
Displaying a level of intolerance that might make Archbishop Akinola blush, a lay member of the General Synod of the Church England has said “There
Voting was split into three separate sections, the House of Laity, the House of Clerics and the House of Bishops. The House of Clerics voted 27 to 18 in favour of the Bill but, with abstentions, missed the required two-thirds majority. The other two houses attained the required minimum.
New York Times: The lawsuit, filed against Boulder County by the Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colo., is an important test of a federal
We cannot know what St. Michael & All Angels should become until we have sat with the people of Avondale and learned from them what their needs are and how we can fit into that. The Episcopal diocese wishes to remain in the neighborhood and to become a more integral part of it.
– Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal, Diocese of Southern Ohio.
I cannot support any of the proposed amendments to the bill, which call for the appointment of a male bishop with jurisdiction for those who oppose the authority of a woman bishop. To do so would be to sanction schism, to threaten the unity of the church. If the Church in Wales refuses today to ordain women to the episcopate, it will be in danger of giving the impression that: the maleness of Jesus is more important than his humanity
As Anglicans, we should be ashamed that Gene Robinson has been disappeared from Lambeth, but we should keep that image always before us as a reminder: if it can happen to one, it can happen to all and to any. Gene was erased for pure politics, nothing more. His disappearance was designed to keep power in the hands of the status quo.
From what I have now written you, you will learn, Christian brethren, that plants are ripening here for the harvest that comes on apace, before the reapers can be prepared to enter in. But you will like to know something further, viz., in what have the two years promised fruit, where we have been laboring? Seeds of glorious light have been sown, and they are even now shooting forth branches which promise, in due time, an abundant harvest.
Publisher’s Weekly has an interview with Honor Moore, Bishop Paul Moore’s daughter, whose recent book about her father and family has stirred controversy within the family and within the Episcopal Church and the diocese that Bishop Moore served. The article helps to put Honor’s effort into a fuller context within her own life journey.
There are plenty of anecdotal stories about hostile responses to any attempt to talk about Christian faith on today’s college campuses. There are also stories about how that sort of conversation is gratefully received by students. Which view, hostile or grateful, is right?