So what we’ve got here is a concerted effort to undermine not just the Covenant process, but the quasi-governing structures of the Anglican Communion by a right wing party that has begun to fear that the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada will never be punished for treating gay and lesbian Christians like human beings.
The setting is spooky, a large, cold English room filled with furniture of different styles and periods crowded together and needing a good dusting. It could be the setting for Masterpiece Theatre or Mystery, with the voice of Vincent Price introducing another dark tale of intrigue. But the voice was that of Rowan Williams and this was his December 18 presentation designed to win friends for the proposed Anglican Covenant.
The Anglican Church of Canada was forced to make significant staff cuts to the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) following a shortfall in fundraising during the past year. The Executive Director of the PWRDF, Cheryl Curtis has resigned as of the end of February.
If my homiletical foot has slipped out of place, or if I have broken a boundary on the way to making some point, I take great comfort that the Creed is there to suggest what is normative. In that moment, the Creed is the remembering of a grace-giving Law.
The Rev. Griselda Delgado Del Carpio has been appointed as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Church of Cuba by the Metropolitan Council of Cuba.
Nearly 500 African Anglican bishops will come together next August to discuss issues of mission and the challenges to development on the continent.
The Very Rev Dr Gregor Duncan has been elected bishop of Glasgow & Galloway over two other candidates, including a woman, The Rev Canon Dr
While the movement towards women bishops is stalled in England because the revision committee missed their deadline, The Episcopal Church in Scotland moves towards the election of a new Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway for which one of the three finalists is a woman.
“What would really happen when serious disagreements arise among churches of the Anglican Communion?”
In an extensive statement, Archbishop Peter Akinola reflects on the vision he set at the outset of his tenure, and the state of the church