Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul Yak was interviewed Thursday at the US Holocaust Museum about the role of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan in peacemaking
On the ground the Anglican Communion in action resembles the route maps in airline magazines where hundreds of thin, graceful semicircles connect points all over the globe, London with Shanghai, Jakarta with Singapore, and a thousand other in between points as well. Such an image suggests a horizontal model of widely diffuse power sharing, not a vertical one of concentrated power.
On July 29, 1974 eleven women broke the barrier so long in place against the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church when they were “irregularly” ordained to the priesthood in Philadelphia. Charges were filed against the bishops who ordained the women and attempts were made to prevent the Philadelphia 11 from serving their priestly ministries.
Friends of mine offer me their sympathy every three years or so following our General Convention. “It must be really hard to grow a church that spends so much time fighting” they say. In the past I’ve agreed with them. But I think I’ve decided that it’s time we as Episcopalians tell the truth about who we are though in a way that tries to explain to
others why our struggles are not a “bug” – they’re a “feature”!
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada, quoted in the Anglican Journal says, “The decision by the diocese of Niagara to offer same-sex blessings as
Earlier today the Archbishop of Canterbury posted an essay detailing his thoughts on the actions the most recent General Convention of the Episcopal Church has
The Archbishop of Canterbury has posted his thoughts on the actions of the most recent General Convention. His paper opens:
Anglican Information has sent a fresh email in the on-going saga concerning the Diocese of North Malawi [Central Africa] and the unfilled position of diocesan
He took this policy on himself. He crafted it and designed it, and actually pushed it far further than any Archbishop of Canterbury should have been able. What lies behind this policy is not his apparent liberalism, because in the end (and not unlike Gorbachev’s outlook) Rowan Williams was and is a Catholic: almost Orthodox in much spirituality and even Roman leaning in ecclesiology.
From the Press Officer of the Episcopal Church: Following its passage in both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, Presiding Bishop Katharine