Entries Tagged as “Schism”

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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 >>

Taking Counsel
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on September 02, 2009
Excerpt:  I have had this information for some time, and was never asked to embargo it. Nonetheless, it seemed best to wait until the event was actually in progress. It now…   Read full post >>

What now?
By:  Sam Keyes on August 09, 2009
Excerpt:  2 Kings 2:1-15 Ephesians 4:1-7,11-16 Mark 6:45-52 Psalm 114 The Apostle Paul gives us some of the loftiest language about the Church in the whole New Testament. It is breathtaking.…   Read full post >>

One parishioner’s humble thoughts
By:  Craig Uffman on July 27, 2009
Excerpt:  I received this note yesterday from a friend and parishioner and share it with her permission. Nanette Frantz is someone Fr. Dan Martins and I know well. She served on…   Read full post >>

Rowan Williams: Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
By:  Craig Uffman on July 27, 2009
Excerpt:  From the web site of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1. No-one could be in any doubt about the eagerness of the Bishops and Deputies of the Episcopal Church at the…   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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Anglican schism: Is this it?
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Benjamin Guyer on July 16, 2009 Excerpt: [...] Is this it? Two of my most respected colleagues, Jonathan Wynne-Jones on the Telegraph and Stephen Bates on the Guardian believe it is. Jonathan writes: 'When I saw Rowan…   Read full post >>

Clarity
By:  Graham Kings on July 16, 2009
Excerpt:  At General Convention, the House of Bishops has passed resolution C056 allowing the development of rites for the blessing of same sex unions. It is likely to be passed also…   Read full post >>

Ruth Gledhill: Princely Bishop of Durham rides to the rescue
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on July 15, 2009 Excerpt: There's nothing quite like a good Church of England bishop in full purple wrath mode. The Bishop of Durham Dr Tom Wright, in his op-ed comment for today's Times, gives…   Read full post >>

N.T. Wright: The Americans know this will end in schism
By:  Craig Uffman on July 14, 2009
Excerpt:  Channel: Times (UK) Author: The Rt. Rev'd N.T. Wright In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the…   Read full post >>

Schism ‘inevitable’ after US bishops approve gay ordination
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on July 14, 2009 Excerpt: A worldwide Anglican schism now seems inevitable after Episcopal bishops in the United States today backed the consecration of gay bishops. Episcopal bishops approved a resolution passed earlier this week…   Read full post >>

Graham Kings: TEC chooses autonomy over interdependence
By:  Graham Kings on July 14, 2009
Excerpt:  The House of Bishops of General Convention of The Episcopal Church last night, 13 July 2009 - note the date for future reference - passed a slightly amended resolution (D025)…   Read full post >>

Disloyalty to an Institution or Love of the Church?
By:  Graham Kings on July 13, 2009
Excerpt:  For Comment is Free Belief, The Guardian; co-published with permission. ‘We will keep formal administrative links with the formal Church of England, but our real identity is with Global Anglicanism…   Read full post >>

Episcopal bishop warns of further schism
Channel: Washington Times  Author: By George Conger SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
By:  Craig Uffman on July 13, 2009 Excerpt: ANAHEIM, Calif. | The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church warned the Church of England not to foment schism in America, responding to a threat made over the possibility…   Read full post >>

Rowan Williams in bid to prevent church split over homosexuality
Channel: Telegraph  Author: Jonathan Wynne-Jones
By:  Craig Uffman on July 12, 2009 Excerpt: Dr Rowan Williams flew to America last week ahead of moves by church leaders in the US to introduce rites for same-sex unions and to promote more gay bishops. Conservatives…   Read full post >>

GENCON2009:  Occasion for Denominational Schism or Opportunity for Ecumenical Convergence?
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on July 04, 2009
Excerpt:  The General Convention/Triennial Issue of The Living Church magazine arrived in my in-box the other day. I braced myself for some depressing reading. What I found, however, surprised me. My…   Read full post >>

On being faithful
By:  Craig Uffman on July 04, 2009
Excerpt:  (A Fulcrum Press Release) The recent publication of pieces by two members of the Fulcrum Leadership Team – Andrew Goddard’s ‘Should we all join the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans?’ and…   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 >>

General Convention and the Ethics of Same-Sex Partnerships
By:  Craig Uffman on June 29, 2009
Excerpt:  In the next few weeks, the eyes of the Anglican Communion will focus intently on the 2009 General Convention. The great question before the Convention, as it was in 2006,…   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 >>

Tract 2: “Suffer not the Little Ones” (Complete)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on June 12, 2009
Excerpt:  This tract is also available in .pdf format. “He therefore passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, thus sanctifying infants; a child for children, thus sanctifying those who…   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 >>

Judge Rules: San Joaquin Continuing Diocese is the Original Diocese
Channel: Episcopal News Service  Author: Pat McCaughan
By:  Craig Uffman on May 07, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service] A Fresno County, California, judge, who tentatively ruled that Bishop Jerry Lamb and not John-David Schofield is the legitimate episcopal authority in the Diocese of San Joaquin,…   Read full post >>

Tract 2: “Suffer not the Little Ones” (Pt 1)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on April 19, 2009
Excerpt:  [Author's Note: The present tract has been substantially revised and published, in complete form.] The following is also available as a .pdf. In our document Reconciliation in Communion: A Word…   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 >>

TEC Files Suit in Fort Worth
Channel: Diocese of Fort Worth
By:  Craig Uffman on April 15, 2009 Excerpt: On Tuesday, April 14, 2009, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and the Episcopal Church filed suit in the 141st District…   Read full post >>

Reconciliation in Communion
By:  Craig Uffman on April 07, 2009
Excerpt:  An Executive Summary of “Reconciliation in Communion” NB: The full text of “Reconciliation in Communion” may be found below and online at http://www.covenant-communion.net • Evangelism is central to the life…   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 >>

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