How should Anglicans outside Uganda respond?
November 4, 2009
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That’s the question Andrew Goddard asks on the Fulcrum Forum. His answer may surprise you.
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Tag: Anglican Communion
The challenge Uganda is presenting to the Communion
November 2, 2009
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The silence on the part of the leadership of the Anglican Communion regarding the proposed “Anti-Homosexual” legislation in Uganda is scandalous according to Colin Coward of “Changing Attitudes”. He calls for a swift and strong response.
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill
October 28, 2009
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The bill is a particular challenge for Christians because clergy have helped to whip up fear and hatred and undermine respect for human rights. Anglican leaders such as the Archbishop of Canterbury have avoided challenging their Ugandan associates’ complicity in anti-LGBT abuses while soundly condemning Anglican provinces moving towards equality for all.
Global South rejects Vatican offer
October 26, 2009
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The Global South primates of the Anglican Church have posted a pastoral letter to their respective provinces in reaction to the recent Vatican overture. In short; they reject it believing that the proposed Covenant is a better avenue to pursue.
The Church of the past and the Church of the future
October 24, 2009
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I give my permission to the Church of St John the Evangelist, Ottawa to begin offering a rite of blessing to those same-sex couples civilly married where at least one party is baptized, utilizing the rite of blessing for civil marriages found in the Book of Occasional Celebrations, published by the Anglican Church of Canada.
Still more reaction on the Vatican scheme
October 23, 2009
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Archbishop Hiltz, Bishop Leo Frade and Dr. Muriel Porter all respond to the Vatican’s announcement of a new apostolic constitution for disaffected Anglicans.
The failed ecclesiology of Rowan Williams
October 23, 2009
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Rowan Williams has separated out ecclesiastical rights from human rights, and has become complicit in the actions of African prelates and civil authorities against gay people; he has turned Church life into a form of isolated ecclesiastical bureaucracy; he has made a joke of critical theology and Biblical study when it comes to Church authority, and now for all this overturning of Anglican sensibilities for the greater goal he has been humiliated by Rome.
You’ve got mail
October 22, 2009
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You’ve worked hard at your faith and always played by the rules. But lately you haven’t been happy with certain developments. Maybe you’re even on the fence about your religion. Sometimes you drive past a Catholic church and wonder, “What goes on in there?”
What is a “former Anglican”?
October 22, 2009
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Does the CDF regard Anglicans who enter into full Communion with the Catholic Church as having ceased to be Anglican (and hence as having become “former Anglicans”)? If so, then what can it possibly mean to “maintain an Anglican identity when entering the Catholic Church”?
The Cafe Newsteam blogs the Vatican announcement
October 22, 2009
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You may have noticed the story which supplanted the “balloon boy” as this week’s “holy cow!” news event: the Vatican has announced a process to receive en masse disaffected Anglicans around the world into the Roman Catholic Church…here are some of the newsteam’s reactions
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