Pat Ashworth, writing in the Church Times last week, points out how the repeated use of the language of crisis in the Anglican Communion is less than helpful. She uses the letter released under the name of Archbishop Akinola a few weeks ago and examines the way parts were edited and rewritten as a springboard for her argument that our language and rhetoric is not terribly helpful right now.
The Living Church has news that a number of American congregations formerly associated with Bishop Lyons of Bolivia are being transferred to the oversight of the Anglican Church of Nigeria.
Mwamba preached at the synod’s closing Eucharist. During the synod meeting, Harare Bishop Konunga asked that “Dissolution of the Province” be put on the synod’s agenda. Participants on the synod assumed that this item referred to an ongoing effort to create three new provinces from the dioceses of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia respectively, not the issue of homosexuality.
The sacred month of Ramadan is a time of giving and doing good for Muslims, but up until recently that generosity of spirit was not readily apparent to non-Muslims. Now, American Muslims are reaching out to their communities to help day laborers, raise money for homeless shelters and organizing nonviolent protests as well as interfaith activities.
Episcopal Life Online is premiering a new monthly half-hour videocast tonight at 8 p.m. You can tune in at Episcopal Life Online to hear about
The Admiral of Morality has been so kind as to reprint an excerpt of an essay, “The Death of Liberal Anglicanism,” written by the Rev. Lynda Patterson, director of Theology House, Christchurch, New Zealand. The essay, originally published in the current issue of The Anglican Taonga, describes how “liberal Anglicanism, the stream most closely identified with Anglicanism in general, must reexamine and reinvigorate its theology if it is to survive and prosper,” says AoM.
An advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury told The Living Church it was a serious misreading of the primates’ communiqué to say that an ultimatum had been given to the House of Bishops to take certain actions by Sept. 30 or face expulsion from the Communion. The communiqué had asked for certain clarifications, he said, but did not envision a breaching of The Episcopal Church’s constitution.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has released figures that show progress on the Millennium Development Goal of cutting the infant mortality rate. For the first time since records started being kept in 1960, the world child mortality rate has dropped below 10 percent. And, more funding has been provided toward this goal since the data was gathered, so officials are optimistic this trend will continue.
Abp. Michael Peers, retired primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has responded to the Rev. Canon Robert Brooks’ memo from last week in which
The California Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal by several churches in the Diocese of Los Angeles. The California Court of Appeals had earlier ruled that the Diocese, not the church congregations, owned parish property.