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Author: David Allen

General Secretary of General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada withholds documents from the Anglican Journal

March 19, 2016 8 Comments

The Anglican Journal has existed since 1875. Last year the Journal celebrated 140 years of covering the news for Canadian Anglicans. Unlike the Episcopal News Service, the Anglican Journal proudly maintains an editorial autonomy, in spite of being an official publication of the ACoC. In years past, the Anglican Journal has been given access to the documents provided online to the members of the Council of General Synod prior to it meetings. This month the Secretary of General Synod, Archdeacon Michael Thompson, took the decision not to provide the documents to the Journal.

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Largest virtual Hallelujah Chorus

March 19, 2016 1 Comment

More than 2000 voices are joined with the 360 strong Mormon Tabernacle Choir to electronically create the largest virtual choral rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. Recorded in the historic Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City UT.

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A Letter on Racial Reconciliation

March 12, 2016 1 Comment

As the leaders of the House of Bishops and House of Deputies, we were tasked by Resolution C019 to lead in this holy work, and thus to enable every diocese, ministry, and baptized person in our church to live and bear witness to the teaching of Jesus to love God and love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 22:37-40), by respecting the dignity of every human being, and working to transform the unjust structures of society. To honor that call, we gathered on February 3 and 4 in Austin, Texas, to share our own gifts and stories, to learn some of the church’s historic and current activities, and to begin to discern a way forward.

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“Everything else is decoration.”

March 12, 2016 No Comments

The Province of Canterbury in the Church of England is launching a Ministry of Sport throughout the dioceses which make the province. The Ministry of Sport is teaming up with the UK organization Christians in Sport. The idea for this new outreach is to reach out to the millions of folks in the UK involved in sport, whether as spectators or as participants.

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Dio Penn elects a bishop diocesan

March 12, 2016 2 Comments

The Diocese of Pennsylvania has been gathered in special convention today, 12 MAR, in the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral to elect a new bishop diocesan. The Revd Canon Daniel G. P. Gutierrez has been elected. The Revd Gutierrez is currently Canon to the Ordinary in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, headquartered in Albuquerque New Mexico.

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Canadian Primate speaks of Canadian and Cuban churches’ futures

March 12, 2016 No Comments

The Anglican Church of Canada has been directly involved with material and financial support of the Anglican church of Cuban with the Canadian Primate’s participation in the Metropolitan Council of Cuba. However, the Canadian Primate, the Most Revd Fred Hiltz, has stated recently to his church that the continued participation of the ACoC in the life of the Cuban church at this point is unknown. The Cuban church has made a request to General Convention to reunite with TEC.

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US United Methodists vs African & Asian United Methodists

March 5, 2016 19 Comments

For as long as TEC has been struggling with LGBT equality of all the baptized, so has the UMC. And like TEC’s overseas units, the UMC overseas units are more conservative than their US counterparts. Unlike TEC, the UMC overseas units are large enough that their representatives at the UMC quadrennial General Conference have so far been successful in preventing the UMC from embracing the full equality of its LGBT baptized. And the overseas units, unlike their US counterparts, are growing larger.

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