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Marriage rites (and wrongs)?

August 30, 2016 1 Comment

The Rev. Bosco Peters writes about the sticky state of marriage canons in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia.

An open letter to Anglican leaders in New Zealand

May 19, 2016 No Comments

In an open letter to ACANZP leaders, Bosco Peters calls out the double-standards and hypocrisy concerning LGBT persons, calling out the different ways the debates around remarriage after divorce and the blessing of committed same-sex couples have played out there.

Communion means Communion

February 21, 2016 7 Comments

“A Communion of churches, at the very least surely, are churches that can celebrate communion together, churches where they accept the validity of each others ordinations, churches where someone ordained in one church can preside in the other.
What is called “The Anglican Communion” is not such a communion.” -Bosco Peters

What are the limits of Primatial power?

January 17, 2016 37 Comments

Or are the Primates here taking it upon themselves to speak for the whole Anglican Communion – that by “us” here they mean “Anglicanism”? If so, when and where, exactly, do they think they have received this mandate? Is a convenient crypto-papal ecclesiology at work here?

Popular New Zealand blog, “Liturgy,” back online after break

July 22, 2015 1 Comment

New Zealand based blogger on all things liturgical, Bosco Peters has returned from sabbatical, energized to take up his cause of strengthening spirituality through better worship.