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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 >>

What are Devotional Societies For?
By:  Benjamin Guyer on May 19, 2011
Excerpt:  ‘Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.’ - John 6:12 The most bracing twentieth-century portrait of history arguably came from the pen of the Jewish philosopher…   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 >>

+Josiah Idowu-Fearon: ‘If you disagree, at least be there’
By:  Benjamin Guyer on January 24, 2011
Excerpt:  Given the Primates' Meeting this week, the following piece from +Josiah Idowu-Fearon, published 31 December, 2010, in the Church Times, is well worth reading: 'The lessons from these [ecumenical] Councils…   Read full post >>

Some Primates to Meet
By:  Fr. Tony Clavier on January 11, 2011
Excerpt:  Shortly the primates of the provinces which constitute the Anglican Communion will meet in Dublin. One should say that some of the primates will meet. Quite a few will stay…   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 >>

In Praise of Rhetoric?  Anti-Covenantal Myths of Puritanism and Anglicanism (Part Two)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 21, 2010
Excerpt:  In part one of this essay, we noted the ways that the anti-Covenant lobby misconstrues Puritanism. In what follows, we turn to their abuse of Anglican orthodoxy, particularly the work…   Read full post >>

In Praise of Rhetoric?  Anti-Covenantal Myths of Puritanism and Anglicanism (Part One)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 18, 2010
Excerpt:  “…this present age full of tongue and weake of braine…” - Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, I.8.2 Écrasez l’infâme! Such is the clarion call of a recent…   Read full post >>

In Praise of the Diocese of Uruguay
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 15, 2010
Excerpt:  It was with considerable initial regret that I read of the Diocese of Uruguay’s attempt to leave the province of the Southern Cone and re-affiliate itself elsewhere. However, upon further…   Read full post >>

Sovereign Dioceses
By:  Fr. Tony Clavier on November 15, 2010
Excerpt:  Traditionalists are advancing the concept of “sovereign” dioceses in attempts to justify schism at the worst, or a modern collective version of passive obedience at best. It seems to me…   Read full post >>

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