Bishop Mark Sisk of New York has written to members of his diocese about a story in The New Yorker magazine by Honor Moore in which she revealed that her father, the late Bishop Paul Moore, had an affair with a man during his marriage. Read the letter.
Simon Sarmiento, speaking at a conference in Northern Wales, has an excellent review of the events that have led up to the present situation in the Anglican Communion. The conference is call the “Rebuilding Communion Course” and is being covered by Walking with Integrity, Integrity USA’s official blog.
Terrence Kelshaw has been received into the Church of Uganda and will serve as an interim in a parish in California that has associated itself with Uganda in response to conflicts with the American church.
Thinking Anglicans has put together an omnibus post of all the document presented at the Church of England’s General Synod earlier this month. Of particular
Packer, a widely known Anglican theologian, is an associate of one of the break-away Canadian parishes and is in danger of having his ministerial license suspended as a result. This situation may make a difficult situation more complicated because of the possible reactions around the Communion to this action.
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Episcopal Church leaders from various dioceses tell me that two important reasons for lawsuits to retain title to the property of parishes and dioceses that wish to leave the Church are fairness to the faithful remnant and to deter other parishes from leaving. Neither rationale withstands careful scrutiny from a Christian perspective.
True progress is never made by spasms. Real progress is growth. It must begin in the seed. Then, “first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.” There is something to encourage and inspire us in the advancement of individuals since their emancipation from slavery.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church has made a statement about the departure of several parishes from Anglican Church of Canada –and made it available through a videocast on the web. In it, he states that the Canadian Church is still “vibrant and united in its witness to the Gospel message.”
First in a new series from the L.A. Times on sacred spaces is a profile on The Rev. Brad Karelius, rector of Santa Ana’s Episcopal Church of the Messiah. After experiencing an incredible sense of peace and holiness while exploring the mountain wilderness that lies north of L.A., Karelius went on to study how retreating to such raw places often acts as a portal to spirital awakening, according to the article. For him, that first visit evoked such “serenity” that he has made it a regular practice to return to the area whenever he needs to “detox” from the hustle and bustle of daily living.