Anglican Communion – Page 61

Bishop Sisk on the Ugandan bill

December 23, 2009 No Comments

For a Christian, no matter how many carefully culled Bible passages might be cited, no matter how lofty the spokesperson, there are no circumstances whatsoever that justify such oppression. The Anglican Communion is clearly on record supporting this view. Among others, I make reference to the actions of several Lambeth Conferences as well as to statements from the Primates Meetings, most recently their Dromantine Communiqué of 2005.

Views on the covenant

December 23, 2009 2 Comments

Go forward in your time machine to a few years from now and imagine seeing on eBay or Trade Me: “For Sale, one partly used Anglican Covenant – owner hoping to recoup at least some of the significant amount of money and hope invested in it. – Bosco Peters

Anglicanism gives way to Democratic Centralism

December 23, 2009 2 Comments

Doesn’t it just look like a Politburo! Democratic centralism is a means by which one layer of a party (which is infused into a bureaucracy) elects the next layer up, but we all know how that conserves a system. It also hands out edicts, from the top down.

Anglicans Online reviews 2009

December 22, 2009 No Comments

Apostrophe´ man ~~Sometimes you just need someone like this. And he happens to be Anglican.

Position of the Inter-Religious Council on the Anti-Homosexual Bill

December 22, 2009 2 Comments

Ten days after the independent Ugandan paper the Daily Monitor ran a story titled, “Church Leaders Back Government on Anti-Gay Bill,” the state-owned paper New

Don Armstrong’s silence, and other news on that anti-homosexuals bill

December 21, 2009 5 Comments

Does it really matter that the Rev. Don Armstrong has not condemned the anti-homosexuals bill in Uganda? His former friends in the Anglican Communion Institute

Anglican Communion snowball fight

December 19, 2009 6 Comments

And, predictably, Rowan has invited the Pope.

What are the consequences of not signing the covenant?

December 19, 2009 16 Comments

While I dislike the Covenant as both document and enterprise, I still think the Episcopalians need to answer some hard questions before committing themselves to opposition. I can think of two off the top of my head, and hope commenters will suggest others.

1776 and All That

December 19, 2009 No Comments

“The Archbishop of Canterbury’s willingness to assert himself in local elections within the Episcopal Church while remaining silent about the egregious human rights violations supported by other churches in the Communion has diminished his own stature as a moral leader, and has now begun to taint the work of other bodies that claim to speak for the Anglican Communion,”

Williams gazes down deep well;
sees own face

December 19, 2009 2 Comments

Updated: Does the dispersed nature of Anglicanism and its autonomy, its cultural connections and sensitivity, really wish to take on something that would be impossible – wide and unending talk before anything was done in a geographical area? This process may be Rowan Williams looking down a deep well and seeing his own face, but it is not Anglicanism in its decentralised nature.

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