Dean Colin Slee of Southwark says the Synod is being asked to give the Archbishops of Canterbury and York a “blank check” to remake the church in negotiations with other primates. He doesn’t think that is a very good idea. Meanwhile, Father Jake provides an overview.
Who said that “democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and of moral purpose”” Why, it was that nominal Episcopalian FDR, as Lew Daly points out in his Boston Review essay on religion, politics and the concept of the common good.
The Episcopal News Service has posted an audio interview with the Rev. Canon Phil Groves. He is interviewed by Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg of ENS on the topic of the Communion’s listening process.
Jonathan Petre, writing in the Telegraph, has news of coalition maneuvering in the Church of England prior to the beginning of General Synod: “Senior Church of England conservatives are plotting a new coalition to mount their biggest offensive yet against their liberal opponents over issues such as gay priests.”
Lutheran Pastor Brad Schmeling has lost his appeal to remain a pastor in a Lutheran Church in the Atlanta area. He was removed because he is a gay man in a relationship, which is contradictory to Lutheran canons.
The Church Times has an overview of various views held in the Church of England toward the question of whether an Anglican Covenant, as proposed by the Windsor Report, is warranted much less what it should address.
The Church of England does not have a full say in who gets to be bishop in each diocese. The involvement of the British government, however, may be reduced significantly as a result of a proposed constitutional change in which the Prime Minister will no longer be given a choice between two bishop candidates, of which only one could be formally nominated by the Queen.
A release today from InclusiveChurch.net provides insight into how recent actions by African provinces, such as the increasing number of bishops providing “pastoral oversight” in North America, undermine the Anglican Communion and threaten the Covenant’s “original intention, which was to affirm the bonds of fellowship which exist.”
Bishop Geralyn Wolf has told a priest who professes to be both a Christian and a Muslim that she is “not to exercise any of
At a “reconciliation Eucharist” held July 4 in Houston, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori talked about the relationship between freedom and reconciliation, saying that neither is fully experienced despite being “fully around us.”