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“Forceful” Fictions and the Anglican Covenant
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 10, 2011
Excerpt:  At its November 2011 Diocesan Synod, the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich voted against the Anglican Covenant after considering two papers on it. The first was by the bishop…   Read full post >>

A Protest against the New Primatial Standing Committee
By:  Benjamin Guyer on February 17, 2011
Excerpt:  The recent election of Katharine Jefferts Schori to the Primates’ Standing Committee is a matter of considerable shock and disappointment. For some, it is a matter of outrage, and not…   Read full post >>

The Primates’ Meeting, 2011: Mis-Representation and the Failure to Resolve
By:  Benjamin Guyer on February 06, 2011
Excerpt:  The 2011 meeting of the Anglican Primates in Dublin has come under considerable criticism in the last week, both for the number of absentees who were present at the meeting…   Read full post >>

West Indies adopts the Anglican Covenant
By:  Benjamin Guyer on January 30, 2011
Excerpt:  via Anglican Communion News Service: The Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies has announced that his Province has adopted the Anglican Communion Covenant. It is the third to…   Read full post >>

Synod Sends Covenant to Dioceses
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 24, 2010
Excerpt:  In a vote that will undoubtedly have profound effects for other Anglican provinces, the Church of England voted on 24 November, 2010, to adopt the Anglican Covenant. The Draft Act…   Read full post >>

Bishop Gregory Cameron’s Letter to the Church Times
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 07, 2010
Excerpt:  Gregory Cameron, Bishop of St. Asaph's in the Church in Wales and former Director of Ecumenical Affairs for the Anglican Covenant, has written an excellent letter to the Church Times…   Read full post >>

The Church in Stone Or, Anglicanism and Canterbury Cathedral
By:  Benjamin Guyer on February 07, 2010
Excerpt:  As every student of Church history knows, one of the central arguments in early Christian centuries pertained to the created order. Gnostics, perhaps the earliest of heretical movements, believed that…   Read full post >>

King Charles the Martyr: Our Own, Royal, Forgotten Saint
By:  Benjamin Guyer on January 22, 2010
Excerpt:  Do you know who the first Anglican saint was? Here’s a hint: it wasn’t Henry VIII. The title of this article says it all, but don’t feel embarrassed if you…   Read full post >>

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on November 11, 2009
Excerpt:  For a number of reasons which I am not going to rehearse here, I am not a candidate for the provisions set forth in the new Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus.…   Read full post >>

The Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus:  A Bridge to Nowhere?
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on November 09, 2009
Excerpt:  The pope has issued his apostolic constitution making provision for former Anglicans to become Roman Catholics. There will be many words spilled over this, but I will simply note what…   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part III
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on November 05, 2009
Excerpt:  From time to time I run across a book, or a TV “infomercial, suggesting that the health of one particular organ or organ system within the human body is the…   Read full post >>

Seven Councils, One Tradition (Part 1)
By:  Sam Keyes on November 04, 2009
Excerpt:  Portions of this first part also appeared as an essay in The Living Church. It seems fitting, as other contributors engage with Richard Hooker’s account of faith and order, that…   Read full post >>

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