Either personal and public cohere or they do not, but this playing the middle of see how nice I am so keep with me while speaking unkind words to the press and church public gatherings must stop: “the gay bishop”, “chosen lifestyle” “sacrificial” “conversion”. +Robinson rebuked him for this sort of thing in New Orleans, but he has continued with it.
We also deplore the statement, attributed to our fellow Bishop, describing those who are opposed to this legislation as “lovers of evil”. Though there are a breadth of theological views among us on matters of human sexuality, we see this Bill as a gross violation of human rights and we therefore strongly condemn such attitudes and behaviour towards other human beings.
The bishops of the Anglican Province of South Africa, meeting at the new conference suite in the Diocese of Swaziland took council with each other, discussed the difficult challenge of hermeneutics and questions of how to incorporate traditional African practices into Christianity and called for a renewed commitment to the poor and basic human rights.
The Church of Uganda released a statement today stating categorically that the American churches that were formerly aligned with them are no longer part of their Church. It appears that even as they cut ACNA loose, they are willing to cut them slack that they are not willing to give to the Episcopal Church nor to the Anglican Church in Canada.
Archbishop Jabez Bryce, Bishop of the Diocese of Polynesia, has died. At 75 years old, he led the Diocese of Polynesia for almost 35 years and was, at time of his death, the longest-serving bishop in the Anglican Communion.
For the sake of the gospel and the building up of the Kingdom, the leader of the Methodist Church is willing to have the Methodist Church “go out of existence.”
Yesterday The Lead posted on media reports of a confusing Church of Uganda press release on the Anti Homosexuality Bill. Below is the press release.
Scott Gunn reminds us all of just how peculiar an institution the Anglican Church in North America is, the odd things its leaders have said, and the chippy tactics they have used in their drive to punish the Episcopal Church for treating LGBT Christians as baptized members of the Body of Christ.
Simon Sarmiento, of Thinking Anglicans, rebuts factual inaccuracies about The Episcopal Church and The Anglican Church of Canada and their relationships with ACNA.