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Media coverage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 18, 2016 1 Comment

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a round-up of media coverage.

UPDATED: ACNA misrepresents its level of participation in #Primates2016

January 18, 2016 67 Comments

Church Times reports Archbishop Foley of ACNA says he voted during #Primates2016 (except on No. 7 of the communique concerning TEC); the director of communications of C of E says it was made clear Foley should not vote; #Primates2016 affirms; CT says ACNA says CT reporting is accurate. Confused yet?

What are the limits of Primatial power?

January 17, 2016 37 Comments

Or are the Primates here taking it upon themselves to speak for the whole Anglican Communion – that by “us” here they mean “Anglicanism”? If so, when and where, exactly, do they think they have received this mandate? Is a convenient crypto-papal ecclesiology at work here?

On Writing a chapter of a Rule of life

January 17, 2016 2 Comments

This originally appeared as part of the Daily Sip, a ministry of St John’s Cathedral in Denver, CO by Charles LaFond Writing a

BBC interviews with Presiding Bishop and Bp Budde of the Diocese of Washington

January 17, 2016 6 Comments

Two stories presented on BBC Radio, including interviews with the Presiding Bishop and Bp Mariann Budde

May she rest in peace and rise in glory!

January 16, 2016 No Comments

The wife of the Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, the Primate of the Church in Wales and the Bishop of Llandaff, Hilary Morgan, passed away in her home Friday, 15 JAN 2016.

Acts of solidarity in Jolly Olde England!

January 16, 2016 10 Comments

Yesterday we received an order for all of the Episcopal Shield Lapel Pins we had in stock, 175 of them. The order came from an Anglican priest in England. His group plans to wear them at their Synod meeting to show support for the Episcopal Church USA…

Who are TEC’s representatives to Anglican Communion bodies?

January 16, 2016 28 Comments

At this moment it is anyone’s guess how the decision of the Primates’ Meeting will affect the respective TEC members who are members of the various AC bodies. The Primates’ Meeting has no constitutional authority to enforce its decisions. The ACC is the only constitutional entity of the AC.

Two Pennsylvania Lutheran seminaries agree to create a new Lutheran seminary

January 16, 2016 1 Comment

The Boards of Directors of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia met on their respective campuses during simultaneous meetings on 13 JAN 2016 and adopted a resolution to create a new seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in the state of Pennsylvania.

The saint emerging from #Primates2016

January 15, 2016 48 Comments

The holiness in him and in his words is tangible…. It is his grace in the face of terrible rejection that shines out from this whole sorry episode.