Episcopal Life Online reprorts that Sandra McPhee and Karen Chane have been chosen to represent the Episcopal Church on the International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN),
Anglican Mainstream, one of the leading organizations on the Anglican right in Great Britain, is bringing an American psychotherapist who is anything but mainstream to England this week. He is Joseph Nicolosi, is one of the founder of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, the flat earth society of the therapeutic world.
Paul Handley of the Church Times writes about being the only journalist at the news conference held last week by the GAFCON primates to announce the foregone conclusion that they were going to recognize the churches of the conservative Americans who pay their bills.
Sometimes we receive a comment that is worthy of being made into an item. We received this one on an item about Archbishop Henry Orombi, who was recently feted with a four-page advertorial in an Ugandan newspaper. A newspaper columnist thought the money poorly spent. Here is a response from Mr. Richard Obura, provincial treasurer of the Church of Uganda.
“His Grace, the right Rev Henry Luke Orombi, 7th Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, is no doubt a most impressive human being with many achievements. But the four-page supplement, which appeared in the Sunday Vision of March 8 2009, showed much that is wrong with the reality of Christian values in Uganda and with Africa’s “big man” culture in general.”
The leaders of GAFCON have found it within their hearts to recognize the schismatic American and Canadian bishops who pay their bills. As five of the seven Primates on the GAFCON leadership council already support breakaway congregations within the Episcopal Church, this has the effect of an organization declaring that it recognizes itself.
Eight archbishops are meeting in closed-door session at a London hotel this week to review plans for the creation of a new Anglican Communion province to be known as the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) says The Living Church. But under the current canons of the communion ACNA could not be recognized as a province without the consent of the Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church.
Church Times: It is believed that regional bishops have advised Sydney rectors that they may permit diaconal presidency under certain circumstances.
Simon Barrow takes the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster to task for his Good Friday comments complaining about televised condom ads in Britain. And
The new draft of the covenant seems to have moved in the direction of concerns expressed by The Episcopal Church about Churches and autonomy and by those who emphasise new interpretation for every generation. Yet, at the same time, rather like a game of push me pull you, it makes statements and orders processes that would operate in precisely the opposite direction.