We salute the considerable efforts made to recognise and contain that breadth (of views on sexuality) with TEC, and regret the attempts by others who have withdrawn to undermine the territorial integrity of local Anglican churches, breaching the third moratorium arising from the Windsor Report.
Anglican Centrist breaks the news that nearly a century ago there was talk of schism raging over the whole of the Anglican Communion.
The Niagara Rite is intended for the voluntary use of priests who wish to offer a sacrament of blessing regardless of the gender of the civilly married persons who who wish to receive the blessing of the church and wish to affirm their life commitment to each other before God in the community of the church.
Thinking Anglicans reports on letters received by the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FOCA) who are meeting to organize in the UK this week:
Conservative Evangelicals have been a small part the Episcopal Church and the Church of England. In order to raise their power and influence they have used the idea of the Anglican Communion, but selectively: going south and then part of that south, that is within Africa for their ballast. Inventing international oversight and criticising ‘Anglican nationalism’, they have intended to start directing the Evangelical traffic their way.
Compare and contrast the following Bishops of Rochester.
I have, on one hand, become especially afraid of those very few bishops and archbishops of this our beloved Communion who have demonstrably indicated their unwillingness to serve the common good, and also in a sense to betray their own baptismal and ordination vows by refusing to participate in eucharistic worship with other baptised Anglicans
The remarkably clergy-heavy Inter-Anglican Standing Commission for Unity, Faith and Order is charged with overseeing the ecumenical life of the communion. Earlier mentions of the commission had pointed to perhaps its underlying purpose: addressing the so-called “ecclesial deficit.”
As Anglicans examine what exactly makes their Communion, um, communal, increasing attention has focused on companion dioceses and companion parish relationships. In this report, the Diocese of Washington’s Southern Africa Partnership Committee, looks back at the first five years of its relationships with the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.
R. Stephen Gracey, a lay deputy from the Diocese of Ohio offers a translation of the Ridley-Cambridge Draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant “into English from the original Churchese.”