Lionel Deimel, an Episcopal layperson in the Diocese of Pittsburgh writes of some of the preparatory steps being taken in that diocese by laity and clergy from across the spectrum who wish to remain Episcopalian should there be a vote by other members of the Diocese to leave the Episcopal Church.
Canon Eugene Sutton, who will be consecrated tomorrow as the state’s first African-American bishop, is the great-great-grandson of slaves. Maryland’s first bishop, the Right Rev. Thomas John Claggett, was a slaveowner.
A Virginia circuit court judge has ruled that the statute governing possession of church property in case of a division is consititutional. An appeal to
Following a press conference at which he refused to condemn violence against gays “Akinola, previously described as a luminary of the conservative movement, has now been hidden away until Sunday afternoon, when a statement outlining a skeleton structure for a “flying communion” has been issued and, handily, when most of the press will have left Jerusalem altogether.”
In a campaign comment ahead of today’s uncontested election in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has condemned Archbishop Rowan Williams as lacking a “moral compass” and said that gays in the church are a sign of “moral degeneracy”.
The Church Times is among those reporting that GAFCON may create some new structure. What kind of structure remains to be seen, as does how
AP: An Episcopal bishop was found guilty by a church panel of covering up his brother’s assaults of a teenage girl in the 1970s. Charles
We are the lucky ones, we are free to march and live our lives. In many, many, countries around the world, including many in which Anglican church leaders are powerful politically, people are still harassed, arrested, tortured and killed for their failure to love the right person; their failure to be a “real man” or “real woman”. We are all real people, made in the image of God.
After the fiasco of GAFCON, will these words from Rowan Williams receive a second hearing? “To those bishops who don’t wish to attend, I recognise their absolute right to choose in good faith and in conscience whether or not they can be there. The invitation’s on the table; naturally I shall be delighted to see more rather than fewer bishops there, that’s their choice – but the door is open.”
The Dallas Morning News says: If Time is right, the war of words over the role of gays in the Anglican Communion will continue ad nauseum — with nothing, really, being decided as a result.