Entries Tagged as “Anglican Covenant”

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Conservatives’ covenant concerns: A critique
By:  Andrew Goddard on November 20, 2010
Excerpt:  On reading Truth or Conviction: questions over the Anglican Communion Covenant by Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden I did not know whether to laugh or to cry. Part of me…   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 >>

“For a fair and accurate debate on the Covenant, read it first”
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 16, 2010 Excerpt: Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Director of Unity, Faith, and Order for the Anglican Communion, has released the following statement via the Anglican Communion News Service: Many things have already been said…   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 >>

A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Anglican Communion Covenant
Channel: Archbishop of Canterbury  Author: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
By:  Benjamin Guyer on December 18, 2009 Excerpt: After several years of work, the proposed covenant for the Anglican Communion has now reached its final form and is being distributed to the provinces for discussion, and I hope…   Read full post >>

The Anglican Covenant: Final Text
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service  Author: Covenant Design Group
By:  Benjamin Guyer on December 18, 2009 Excerpt: (4.2.1) The Covenant operates to express the common commitments and mutual accountability which hold each Church in the relationship of communion one with another. Recognition of, and fidelity to, this…   Read full post >>

And the Beat Goes On
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on December 07, 2009
Excerpt:  The news is barely more than a day old and I already feel like I'm Johnny-come-lately by weighing in even now. I'm not sure I have anything original to say…   Read full post >>

Dioceses’ Endorsement of the Covenant
Channel: Anglican Communion Institute Inc.
By:  Ephraim Radner on October 01, 2009 Excerpt: From the Anglican Communion Institute, Inc. ACI welcomes the encouragement given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the decision by the Diocesan Board and Standing Committee of the Diocese of…   Read full post >>

Keep Moving ... Nothing to See Here
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 01, 2009
Excerpt:  Anglican cyberspace is abuzz this morning with the release of a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Central Florida Bishop John Howe, which is in response to a request…   Read full post >>

TEC cannot sign Covenant, say Wright and American critics
Channel: Church Times
By:  Craig Uffman on September 11, 2009 Excerpt: THE Episcopal Church in the United States cannot in conscience sign the Anglican Covenant, a group of con­servatives says. The group includes the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright. The…   Read full post >>

Mt. Pleasant Rector: “You Never Know What God Might Say”
Channel: Living Church  Author: Doug LeBlanc
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on September 10, 2009 Excerpt: One of the largest congregations in The Episcopal Church, St. Andrew’s Church of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., may by December become one of the largest congregations to renounce its Episcopal ties.…   Read full post >>

Communion Partner Dioceses and The Anglican Covenant
By:  Ephraim Radner on September 08, 2009
Excerpt:  1. We address below issues related to the capacity of CP dioceses to sign the Anglican Covenant. We consider the text of Section 4 of the Ridley Cambridge draft, ACC…   Read full post >>

Report of the Seven CP Bishops Who Met with +Rowan
By:  Craig Uffman on September 08, 2009 Excerpt: A Report of the meeting of the Bishops of Albany, Dallas, North Dakota, Northern Indiana, South Carolina, West Texas and Western Louisiana with the Archbishop of Canterbury on September 1,…   Read full post >>

Canterbury hosts seven Episcopal bishops for private meeting
Channel: Episcopal Life
By:  Craig Uffman on September 04, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams held a private meeting September 2 with seven Episcopal Church bishops at Lambeth Palace, his London residence. The bishops attending the meeting…   Read full post >>

The Anglican Covenant: Shared Discernment Recognized By All
By:  Ephraim Radner on September 03, 2009
Excerpt:  The approved text of the Anglican Covenant is already serving as a lens through which individual Anglican churches are inevitably and accurately being measured in terms of their character as…   Read full post >>

Time Warp
By:   Fr. Tony Clavier on August 25, 2009 Excerpt: I live in a time warp. We are an hour behind South Bend time where the diocesan office is located. I have to remember that when going to see the…   Read full post >>

A View from the Bridge:  An Editorial Comment from Quebec
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on August 20, 2009
Excerpt:  From where we sit (Québec, Canada – we’ll explain that in a moment) reading our internets like good Anglicans, we see the possibility of a model of Anglicanism being demonstrated…   Read full post >>

Ecclesial Reconciliation and the Anglican Covenant Agreement
By:  Katie Silcox on August 14, 2009
Excerpt:  Between April of 1994 and November of 1995, ten Churches signed what is known as, The Porvoo Common Statement with the Porvoo Agreement (http://www.porvoochurches.org/intro.htm). The commendation and signing of the…   Read full post >>

Federation Isn’t Enough
By:  Graham Kings on August 07, 2009
Excerpt:  Fulcrum Newsletter, August 2009 Copublished, with permission, with Comment is free belief, The Guardian online, 5 August 2009 Desmond Tutu has often talked of the crucial support of the Anglican…   Read full post >>

Goodbye, “Low” and “High.”  Hello, “Covenanted” and “Federated”
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on August 06, 2009
Excerpt:  Granted, "covenanted" and "federated" are not as catchy as "low" and "high," nor as easy to discern from outward appearances, but I believe that these categories, even more than "reappraiser"…   Read full post >>

The Good Churchkeeping Seal of Approval
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on July 30, 2009
Excerpt:  Will Rowan Williams' two-track proposal gain traction? And if it does, will this be a good thing for conservative and moderately conservative Episcopalians, particularly those who are minorities within more…   Read full post >>

The Agonies and Demands of Dual Citizenship
By:  Victoria Heard on July 17, 2009
Excerpt:  I am anticipating that dioceses, parishes, and individuals who understand that we are part of the Church universal need to be very mindful that we hold dual citizenship, as Episcopalians…   Read full post >>

Video: Covenant Interview w/ Fr. Dan Martins about Resolution C056
By:  Bennett Jones on July 16, 2009
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Should General Convention Act on the Covenant?
By:  Ephraim Radner on July 15, 2009
Excerpt:  Editor's Note: Ephraim Radner is a member of the Covenant Design Group and on the faculty of Wycliffe College, Toronto I have great respect for Prof. Katherine Grieb, and have…   Read full post >>

Katherine Grieb: Perspective - Our turn to listen, watch and pray
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Katherine Grieb
By:  Craig Uffman on July 12, 2009 Excerpt: [Center Aisle] The best thing that could happen to the proposed covenant for the Anglican Communion at this General Convention is nothing at all. Though there undoubtedly will be strongly…   Read full post >>

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