Updated Saturday morning: The controversy centers on two clauses that refer Section 4 of the Covenant to a small working group appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury for further study. The working group is expected to take six to nine months to do its work. The proposed covenant will not be sent to the provinces until after Section 4 has been reconsidered.
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The Anglican Consultative Council has embraced the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group. An effort to include a moratorium that would have forbidden the Episcopal Church from going to court to maintain control of its property was defeated, but the moratoria on same-sex blessings and consecration of partnered gay bishops have been approved.
Mad Priest writes: my initial thought is that there must now be a formal coalition between, what I will refer to from now on as, the provinces of Episcopal Anglicanism and a way for all Episcopal christians, even those who do not live in these provinces, to become aligned with and cared for by this new coalition.
Colin Coward of Changing Attitude has had a run-in with two bullies with press credentials at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Jamaica. Read his reflections on these encounters.
The lawyer representing St. James, Newport Beach in its lawsuit against the Diocese of Los Angeles is John C. Eastman, dean of the Chapman University School of Law, who recently teemed with the “visiting professor and Bush White House “torture memo” author John Yoo in April to debate two other Chapman law profs in Memorial Hall about presidential power in wartime.
According to the Daily Program the afternoon offered an island tour or free time, and the evening is unscheduled. Perhaps for that reason reporting on
Last week, Dante White married Nhiahni Chestnut, a woman whose battles with drugs and alcohol had left her on the streets of the US capital as well. Both are unemployed. “I was basically living from day to day, trying to survive, and I wound up meeting him,” Chestnut told AFP at the couple’s wedding, held in the tiny chapel of Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown.
We want to work from the basis of our faith to articulate faith-informed positions on issues of the day. But they are looking primarily for a way into relationship with God and God’s people; to be in a community of faith that looks something like the communities that they know from the other spheres of their lives.
It is not an exaggeration to say that The Episcopal Church is financing an institution that is seriously considering gaining effective control over it or removing it from that institution entirely. Surely, we have been underwriting the undermining of The Episcopal Church.