Gene Robinson given standing ovation at Greenbelt
August 31, 2009
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Apparently Bishop Robinson is a bit of hit with the folks attending the annual Greenbelt Festival, a festival of “arts, justice and faith.”
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Tag: Anglican Communion
Canadian laywoman appointed to two Anglican Communion bodies
August 31, 2009
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Dr. Eileen Scully has been appointed Chair of International Anglican Liturgical Consultation. The Anglican Journal reports:
Robinson critical of CofE policy towards gay clergy
August 28, 2009
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Bishop Gene Robinson, on his way to Greenbelt, was interviewed by the Guardian.
Anglican no longer
August 27, 2009
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The Anglicanism I deal with has become unethical. It is obsessed with sexuality and usually in a harmful fashion. I read too much what the Archbishop of Canterbury writes, and I know this is doublespeak – and doublespeak fails an ethical test of truth-seeking. It becomes harmful when it has victims, when it marginalises, when it alters thought in order to meet a political objective.
A step forward in South Africa?
August 22, 2009
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The Anglican Diocese of Cape Town today agreed to a resolution asking the church’s bishops to provide pastoral guidelines for gay and lesbian members of the church living in “covenanted partnerships,” taking into account the mind of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
CANA and the coming campaign against Islam
August 20, 2009
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“People are thinking that Islam is an issue in Africa and Asia, but you in the West are sitting on explosives.” What people in the West don’t understand, he said, “is that what Islam failed to accomplish by the sword in the eighth century, it’s trying to do by immigration so that Muslims become citizens and demand their rights.”
Dispatches from Anglicanland
August 20, 2009
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Tobias Haller, Mark Harris and the Modern Churchpeople’s Union have all written essays worth reading recently.
Choosing your communion partner
August 19, 2009
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All of which raises the hypothetical, could the Church of England choose to be in communion with ACNA without ACNA being part of the Anglican Communion?
Anglican Churches are not meant to be “clones”
August 17, 2009
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Elfred Hughes, an officer of one oldest mission agencies in the Anglican Communion asserts in an interview that the challenge to the Communion at present is to “find ways of ‘being together despite – and even because of – our diversity'”.
Alyson Barnett-Cowan appointed to new Anglican Communion post
August 14, 2009
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Canon Dr Alyson Barnett-Cowan has been appointed Director for Unity, Faith and Order at the Anglican Communion Office.
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