Category: Anglican Communion
Banned at GAFCON?!
Wow. I just read Ruth Gledhill’s blog, only to learn that I have been banned from GAFCON. Apparently, I am such a threat to “orthodox” Anglicans that immediately upon my appearance, people should break...
Why stay in the Anglican Communion?
Louie Crew has graciously allowed me to share one of his emails to the House of Bishops/Deputies email list. The conversation was about the value of ECUSA being in the Anglican Communion. Louie writes:...
Where’s the outrage?
The Anglican Communion is in crisis over who has sex with whom. Sexual orientation can get you killed, but it’s not the death that seems to upset folks in the right. It’s the sexuality....
Proclaiming Good News, when the world looks for bad news
I wrote this essay on commission for a publication, who finally decided not to use it. I thought it might be of interest to blog readers here. The bold-faced sentences were meant to start...
Cantuar gets the moral high (er, sky?) ground
From the Church Times: THE Archbishop of Canterbury is planning to reduce his carbon footprint. He may fly to Poland to visit Auschwitz in the autumn, but, apart from that, he intends to eschew...
Petulance doesn’t pay
For about the last five years (even though it seems like 100), Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh has been fuming about Lambeth and how certain bishops shouldn’t come. He and his conservative friends have...
The Anglican Communion these days
ASBO Jesus seems to have captured what’s happening within ECUSA and the Anglican Communion these days. Lots of people like to talk about anything other than the real issues. We are easily distracted by...
Oh noes! Anglican problemz!
I mostly ignored the Anglican blogosphere while I was in Japan — and for the last couple of weeks. Maybe I missed something, but here’s what I think happened. If you are one of...
Put your congregation on record, support the gift of Communion
If the efforts of a few people are successful, the Anglican Communion as we know it will not survive to the end of this year. From the right, there are puritan forces who wish...
Impaired communion gets a new meaning
“Eucharistic Food and Drink” is the topic of a new report just issued by the Anglican Consultative Council’s Inter-Anglican Liturgical Committee. While endorsing variances such as gluten-free bread and, in some cases, grape juice,...
Getting on with God’s mission
Christopher, over at Thanksgiving In All Things, seems to have it about right. Writing about the “mess” we’ve gotten ourselves into in the church, he says: That we’re some kind of club. That somehow...
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