There wasn’t a pact amongst the Gafcon Primates to keep the consecration in South Sudan a secret. None. The Primates were perfectly free to talk about the event at any time. Second, there has been the suggestion that perhaps there was incompetence; a kind of wishful thinking that the event would never be known. That’s not what happened either. – ACNA
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel has lifted a stay in a lawsuit over false-advertising and related claims against the bishop of a breakaway group that left The Episcopal Church in 2012, issuing a scheduling order for the trial to begin on or after September 1
Canadian Anglicans and Mennonites held talks to begin a process of mutual learning and shared mission.
This Lent, how can we all hear the words of women who have been damaged by the sin of pride in the church? How can we allow those words to witness to a truth of our church, that we are, at times, overcome by this sin?
I wished fervently that I could believe he is off fighting for freedom, for justice, to create peace. But I do believe, as Bob Dylan phrased it, that he is “a pawn in their game.” As most of us do, I watch the powers that be right now, the oligarchy, and how they twist reality to suit their gain.
According to the state Supreme Court ruling, the disassociated Diocese of South Carolina would have to relinquish 29 church buildings. But that diocese’s officials soon indicated they would petition the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to overturn the state court decision, and on Friday, Feb. 9, that’s just what they did.
Another objector wondered, “Why have anything as undignified as a lavatory in a church?” as though the dignity of human bodily experience had not been well established by the precedents of Creation and the Incarnation.
An agreement has been completed between the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS) and the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) to lease a portion of a floor at the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Avenue in New York City, NY.
A private Episcopal school in Texas is being sued by a former students and his parents claiming that the student was bullied because of his race. The school, after giving one-day suspensions to the admitted bullies, is claiming that that it cannot open their records on this matter because it is a religious school.
The Gafcon Primates chose to not allow this anomaly to change the course followed since 2014… The voluntary moratorium remain(s) in place.