The Canadian House of Bishops has approved a resolution recommending that the final text of the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant be presented for consideration to
“We sensed that in Canada there was a general consensus on the nature of orthodoxy, with fewer extreme views of the kind that have led to some of the aberrations south of the border. Even the bishops who were strongly progressive in the matter of same-sex blessings insisted that they stood firmly within the creedal mainstream.”
Bishop Gregory Cameron says the proposed Covenant is for Anglican Consultative Council members only while some English evangelicals would love for the Church of England recognize ACNA separately from the Instruments of Unity.
There have been some questions raised in the blogsphere in the past month about whether or not there is some sort of hidden structure to the Anglican Communion hinted at in some of its documents. The short answer? “No.”
“The Anglican Church today is in the forefront of fighting against cultism, making people to swear oaths that they don’t belong to cult and will never belong to cult. We are the first to do that. We led Nigeria to that. We are the only people in the world, to the best of my knowledge, fighting against evil in the world, against this homosexuality in America, other churches are keeping quite.”
There is nothing wrong with the expression of mutual commitment, and for this mutuality to have a formal aspect. The marriage service, for instance, is precisely that. But the Anglican Covenant isn’t at all like the commitments of a marriage service. It is more like the anxious and untrusting legalism of that thoroughly distasteful feature of modern life, the pre-nuptial agreement.
What stories from 2009 concerning The Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion should readers look back on? We asked each of the newshounds at The Lead:
Certainty cannot become an excuse for denying the ongoing discovery of new knowledge of the things of earth, much less for refusing to consider previously unnoticed ways of grace among us. To do so is ultimately to deny the Incarnation Himself, who becomes not mere letters, but living flesh.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have come out and condemned the actions of government of Zimbabwe over Christmas weekend as Anglican churchgoers were not allowed to freely attend worship services.
The Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has criticised both inhuman UK policy on asylum seekers and the anti-homosexuality bill currently going through the Ugandan parliament.