The Presiding Bishop has written to the bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin asking him to confirm that it is his understanding that he has left the Episcopal Church.
As the day has gone on various people have begun to weigh in with their reactions to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Advent letter, in which he lays out his thinking about the next steps for the Communion.
Bonnie Anderson, the President of the House of Deputies (a body of the General Convention), has issued a statement today after a long consultation with
Bishop Christopher Epting is the chief ecumenical officer of the Episcopal Church. In a recent post on his blog, he talks about how the recent actions of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention have effected the conversations the denomination has with other denominations and draws a lesson about the need for Anglicans to gather next year in Lambeth.
San Joaquin, one of the dioceses associated with the theologically conservative Network within the Episcopal Church, is meeting in annual convention this weekend. One of the orders of business it has will be to consider taking the final actions that could attempt to take itself of the Episcopal Church and join it with another Anglican Province.
The Primate and Metropolitans of the Anglican Church of Canada have released their promised pastoral statement on the recent incursions into their province by bishops
The Anglican Church of Ireland’s General Synod has published an alternative form of an Anglican Covenant. The Irish province accepts the need for a covenant, it does not find the present form helpful. The Covenant as they propose it calls on the Anglican provinces to recognize the moral authority of the “Instruments of Communion” while making clear they have no juridical authority over the provinces.
The Bishop and people of the Diocese of Minnesota commissioned a study group and asked them to look hard at the present state of the diocese and its immediate future. The answer they found is not a happy one. But they have developed a plan to respond to what they found.
Starting in 2006 a number of clergy and congregations began to push back against the increasing commercialization of Christmas by inviting their members to consider giving gifts to charity instead. In the first year hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised. This year, about 491 churches from 10 nations have joined the conspiracy, says Jeanne McKinley, who directs the program from Imago Dei Community with her husband Rick.
It’s becoming increasingly common of late to hear of Episcopal clergy going out of their parishes to local pubs and bars as a way of