The Church of England spent a little time debating a technical motion moving forward the process towards some kind of Anglican Covenant. We at the Cafe note that the Church of England took note.
The most enthusiastic guest was Richard Nixon, who was then the vice president. From the moment he touched down in Ghana, he rushed about shaking hands, hugging paramount Chiefs, playing with black babies and posing for photographs. He slapped one man on the shoulder and asked him how it felt to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” replied the man, “I’m from Alabama!”
The Anglican world turns its attention from the primates meeting to the Church of England General Synod. The navel gazing continues. Andrew Brown and Giles Fraser think that’s not Christian.
The two principal documents released by the Primates at their recent meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, namely The Primates Communiqué and the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group are a study in contrast.
William Mims was a member of one of the breakaway Episcopal Churches when he introduced a bill in the Virginia legislature that would have made it easier for such churches to maintain their property when they left the church. The Washington Post suggested that Mims’ intervention was exactly the sort of thing that the separation of church and state was meant to prevent.
Anglican Information reports: there is a now distinct danger that Nolbert Kunonga could promote a candidate of his choice. His own election (overseen by Bernard Malango) was shrouded in mystery and intrigue.
The Gazette from Colorado Springs brings us a preview of the six-week trial that begins tomorrow to determine ownership of Grace Church and St. Stephen’s. The clergy and most of the laity voted to leave the Episcopal Church and join Archbishop Peter Akinola’s Anglican Church of Nigeria. They also decided to take the property with them, which the canons of the Episcopal Church do not permit.
Bishop Robert Duncan, the leader of the group who are organizing themselves into the Anglican Church of North America has issued a response to the
The behavior of conservative primates and advocacy groups at the recently-concluded Primates Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt and the comments of Bishop Gregory Venables in this interivew with George Conger suggest a change in the strategy, and perhaps the aims of the anti-gay faction in the Anglican Communion.
A day after the final Communiqué from the Primates’ meeting in Alexandria, and the release of the Windsor Continuation Group’s report, there are a number of pieces appearing which try to make sense of the mixed messages being heard.