We don’t expect Anglican leaders like Rowan Williams to be able to stop this sort of thing singlehandedly. But isn’t it clear by now that the Anglican Communion’s policy of treating those who want to ordain LGBT people as though they are more dangerous than those who want to imprison or kill them, has delivered us to an ugly place?
The board believed the payouts in recent years were too high to allow it to meet its primary aim of maintaining the ”real value” of the endowment fund’s property. ”Regardless of market conditions, if you have got an endowment of $110 million, it is just not sustainable to be distributing amounts of $10 million a year before costs – you are going to go backwards very quickly,” Mr Payne said.
We regret that certain powerful well funded bodies use the rights issue in relation to HIV/AIDS to undermine the Church’s mission of promoting and protecting godly sexual behaviour in its work with people living with HIV/AIDS and vulnerable groups. . . . The Church must stand in the vanguard to resist any attempt to establish local or international platforms to foist societal vices e.g. homosexual behaviour, prostitution, etc as rights on others.
Less than a week after South Sudan celebrated its long-awaited independence, Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail of the Episcopal Diocese of Kadugli has said it is “devastating and saddening” to learn that his people of the South Kordofan region, “friends, brothers and sisters, children, my flock, have been killed mercilessly and are lying now in mass graves in Kadugli.”
The Church of Nigeria General Synod met in late June. The program included a Renewal of Ordination Vows, and a Renewal of the Baptismal Covenant from The Episcopal Church 1979 Book of Common Prayer. It is especially heart warming for another province to join us in the embrace of the baptismal covenant as historic, orthodox and a pillar of our expression of belief.
A Sudanese headmaster has made an urgent appeal for help after armed thugs broke in to his diocesan school and left a security guard for dead.
The way in which artificial divisions among leaders are …creating serious obstacles to the mission of God in a place like Yola infuriates me. Nigerian after Nigerian is telling me that while they disagree with me on some issues, there is no reason we cannot still work together. Yet that is not the narrative that is propagated at the highest levels of Anglicanism.
The third Anglican–Lutheran International Commission (ALIC) held its sixth and final meeting in the holy city Jerusalem between 18 and 25 June 2011, under the leadership of the Most Reverend Fred Hiltz, Primate of Canada, and of the Reverend Dr Thomas Nyiwé, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon. (And an Episcopalian was there.)
Jesse Zink, an Episcopalian seminarian at Yale Divinity School is journaling his summer travels in sub-saharan Africa on his blog “Mission Minded”. Jesse is a
The Church of England sent an observer to the Anglican Church in North America gathering in Long Beach, California this week, and their leader is very pleased.