Entries Tagged as “Acna”

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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 >>

Fort Worth to Vote on Southern Cone Ties
Channel: Living Church
By:  Craig Uffman on September 29, 2009 Excerpt: A member diocese of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) will consider a resolution that maintains the diocese’s ties with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone. The resolution…   Read full post >>

Texas Rector Withdraws from Episcopal Election in Malawi
Channel: Living Church
By:  Benjamin Guyer on July 23, 2009 Excerpt: The Very Rev. Scott Wilson, rector of All Saints’ Church, Weatherford, Texas, has withdrawn as a candidate to serve the Diocese of North Malawi in the Province of Central Africa.…   Read full post >>

Robert Duncan’s open letter to the Anglican Communion
Channel: ACNA
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on July 21, 2009 Excerpt: ... St. Augustine of Hippo in his De Civitate Dei contrasts the City of God and the City of the World, explaining the fate of Rome in terms of the…   Read full post >>

Glacial Gravity or Opportunist Autonomy?
By:  Graham Kings on July 02, 2009
Excerpt:  Prepublished, with permission, from the Church of England Newspaper, 3 July 2009 Glaciers, moving slowly and powerfully, reshape the landscape. They work through gravity. It may be that the Anglican…   Read full post >>

CANA view of ACNA
Channel: Thinking Anglicans  Author: Simon Sarmiento
By:  Craig Uffman on June 30, 2009 Excerpt: In a press release headed CANA Celebrates Launch of New Anglican Province, Bishop Martyn Minns is quoted as follows: “…Since day one, CANA has been and will continue to be…   Read full post >>

Should we all join the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans?
By:  Andrew Goddard on June 30, 2009
Excerpt:  Co-published with Fulcrum with permission of the author. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) launches in the UK in early July, just over a year after it was formed at…   Read full post >>

A Pastoral Note from a Pittsburgh Rector
By:  Bruce Robison on June 28, 2009
Excerpt:  In recent days, many of us have read and heard about the founding "Council" of a new Church body, the "Anglican Church in North America," held in Texas last week.…   Read full post >>

TEC and ACNA
By:   Fr. Tony Clavier on June 24, 2009 Excerpt: The "Anglican Church of North America" has been formed. What it will become is yet to be seen. From the outside it seems to be a bewildering mixture of structures,…   Read full post >>

OCA Synod ‘Enthusiastic’ About Dialogue with ACNA
Channel: Living Church  Author: (The Rev.) George Conger
By:  Benjamin Guyer on June 24, 2009 Excerpt: If Anglicans foreswear Calvinism, female priests, and the filioque clause, the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) would be ready to begin a dialogue leading to the possible recognition of Anglican…   Read full post >>

Episcopal break called a ‘historic event’
Channel: Washington Times  Author: Julia Duin
By:  Fr. Jody Howard on June 24, 2009 Excerpt: BEDFORD, Texas | The Rev. Rick Warren brought hundreds of former Episcopalians to their feet in applause Tuesday when he called their exodus from the denomination "a historic event" and…   Read full post >>

ACNA: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; Expresses solidarity with Communion Partners
By:  Fr. Jody Howard on June 24, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Church in North America Provincial Council has endorsed the Anglican Covenant and expressed solidarity with the Communion Partners. The Covenant is a four-part document that outlines the basics…   Read full post >>

Bishop Robert Duncan is trading sacred places
Channel: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Author: Ann Rodgers
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on June 22, 2009 Excerpt: In his office at the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh (Anglican), Bishop Robert Duncan has mounted a Scottish broadsword, like that of the hero in his favorite movie, "Braveheart." It was…   Read full post >>

Springfield bishop will not attend ACNA Assembly
Channel: Living Church
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on June 22, 2009 Excerpt: As a result of developments in the Diocese of Springfield, The Rt. Rev. Peter Beckwith, Bishop of Springfield, will not be attending the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) Assembly…   Read full post >>

Three bishops elected for AMiA
Channel: Living Church
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on June 19, 2009 Excerpt: Three new bishops were elected to serve the Anglican Province of the Church of Rwanda's missionary jurisdiction in North America at a June 13 meeting of the Rwandan House of…   Read full post >>

Two TEC bishops listed on ACNA committees
Channel: Episcopal News Service  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on June 17, 2009 Excerpt: Two Episcopal Church bishops, one active and one retired, are among the members of newly-announced committees of a proposed Anglican Church in North America, which is holding what it is…   Read full post >>

Tract 4: Baptism is bigger than schism
By:  Sam Keyes on June 12, 2009
Excerpt:  The signatories of “Reconciliation in Communion” write that they: Remind the Bishops and Deputies that a growing number of Episcopalians now live in situations where schism among Anglicans has become…   Read full post >>

Metropolitan Jonah on Ecumenical Relations
Channel: Orthodox Christians for Accountability  Author: Dmitry Vlasov
By:  Benjamin Guyer on May 14, 2009 Excerpt: In a recent interview given to the Russian religious information agency “Blagovest-Info”, Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America answered some questions on ecumenical relations that shed light on…   Read full post >>

What if you gave a schism and nobody came?
Channel: Guardian  Author: Paul Handley
By:  Craig Uffman on April 17, 2009 Excerpt: In an airport hotel there is no avoiding the impression that everybody else is on the way to somewhere more important, or is already there. The feeling grew when I…   Read full post >>

Is ACNA one of the “other Churches” the Anglican Covenant addresses?
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on April 09, 2009
Excerpt:  In the newly-released Ridley Cambridge Draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant, we find this curious new provision under section 4.1, "Adoption of the Covenant": (4.1.5) It shall be open to…   Read full post >>

ACNA releases draft canons
Channel: Common Cause Partnership
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on April 06, 2009 Excerpt: Bishop Robert Duncan, archbishop-designate of the Anglican Church in North America, writes this as the ACNA releases its proposed canons: The draft canons attempt to order the life of the…   Read full post >>

Canterbury’s Recognition of ACNA Unlikely
Channel: Living Church  Author: Douglas LeBlanc
By:  Craig Uffman on April 05, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Church in North America is unlikely to be recognized by the See of Canterbury, a leader of the American Anglican Council said on April 1. “We do not…   Read full post >>

Parishes Want New Diocese of Cascadia
Channel: Episcopal News Service  Author: Pat McCaughan
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on March 20, 2009 Excerpt: At least seven congregations in western Washington state are seeking to form an Anglican diocese outside of the Episcopal Church but within its ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The congregations, calling themselves the…   Read full post >>

Include the new province
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: D. Stuart Dunnan
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on February 17, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service] As I watch the sad saga of our bishops' legalistic and punitive response to 'traditionalist" bishops, dioceses and parishes who are attempting to leave the Episcopal Church…   Read full post >>

The Anglicans in Egypt: A Deeper Communion
By:  Jordan Hylden on February 11, 2009
Excerpt:  from First Things Online “Are we a global church, or are we a federation of local bodies?” At the close of last week’s meeting of the Anglican primates in Egypt,…   Read full post >>

To Covenant or Not to Covenant?
Channel: Anglican Communion Institute Inc.  Author: The Rev'd Dr. Phillip Turner
By:  Craig Uffman on February 11, 2009 Excerpt: The second question, what if a diocese in a province that refuses to ratify the covenant wishes to do so, is now before us. The Archbishop of Canterbury has indicated…   Read full post >>

A New Realism About Sex and Schism
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on February 08, 2009 Excerpt: All the provinces, including the Church of England, see that the three mantras of the Windsor Report, the initial report intended to resolve the crisis, are being disregarded. Same-sex blessings…   Read full post >>

A Summary of U.S. Responses to Primates’ Communique
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Craig Uffman on February 07, 2009 Excerpt: Archbishop Bob Duncan of the ACNA is "certainly open to mediated conversations" called for by the primates of the Anglican Communion, but added that his organization "will need to see…   Read full post >>

Conservative primates satisfied
Channel: Living Church  Author: George Conger
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on February 05, 2009 Excerpt: High marks have been awarded to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the 2009 primates' meeting by conservative archbishops, who report that consensus was reached following four days of intense…   Read full post >>

The Windsor Continuation Group Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Channel: Anglican Communion Office
Link:  http://www.aco.org/commission/windsor_continuation/WCG_Report.cfm
Excerpt:  The following is an excerpt from the report of the Windsor Continuation Group. One can view the entire report at the link below or download a PDF. To be a…   More>>

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