Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It should come as no surprise that the message from South Florida Episcopal Bishiop Leo Frade to orthodox Anglicans is simple: It was with great sadness that I concluded I had no other choice but to vote to move to inhibit two of my brothers (Episcopal bishops of Pittsburgh and San Joaquin) who have betrayed …
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It's gratifying to know that this site isn't the only place where Anglicans and Pentecostals find themselves together, as an Orlando-area church that left Episcopal diocese finds a home in a Pentecostal church. The Epiphany Celebration Anglican Church, formerly St. Edward's Episcopal Church, is now worshiping at the Bethel Assembly of God in Mt. Dora, …
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“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 1:11. From …
In 1997 Episcopal Rev. Marty Davis, a leader in the TEC GLBT group Integrity, was murdered. Recently a tape surfaced made by Judge John Hagler (who had known Rev. Davis at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland, TN) has led to the re-examination of the case: The former secretary to Judge John Hagler testified Thursday …
It's indicative of the sad state of what is conventionally termed Christianity (but I have my doubts) when an avowed atheist calls our bluff, as Brendan O'Neill does in his article Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth: In his Christmas sermon, delivered at Canterbury Cathedral, Dr Williams finally completed his journey from …
It seems that the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, Bishop Suheil Dawani, is upset that his Global South counterparts are having a conference (GAFCON) in his town without having consulted with him. From a purely tactical standpoint, I can't blame the Africans for doing it this way. They're in an interesting position; their "primus inter pares" …
George Hood's outline of the secular parallel to the conflict in the Episcopal Church--and specifically the secession of the Diocese of San Joaquin--is a theme that bears more coverage than it gets in the Anglican/Episcopal world. The whole row is a microcosm of the culture wars that now have a global dimension. That is due …
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David Virtue's weekly digest contains this gem from College Station: "Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a lump of feces by the clean end." --- 2007 winning entry …
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Stacy Sauls' recent address to the Chicago Consultation at Seabury-Western Seminary brings up an interesting issue he may not have intended: There are proposals, of course, to make us either a federation or a confederation, or God forbid, a unitary governmental structure such as the Roman Catholic Church has. The draft Anglican Covenant is a …
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The Archbishop of Canterbury says that the nativity story in the New Testament is 'a legend': Dr Williams said: "Matthew's gospel says they are astrologers, wise men, priests from somewhere outside the Roman Empire, that's all we're really told. It works quite well as legend." That's more than one can say for Rowan Williams. He's …
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