After many years of scheming, and at least four years of activism, this group has not gotten what they wanted. So, they created their own new authority, consisting of 6 Primates out of 37. As Dr. Williams’ points out, the problem these gentlemen now face is that few, if any, of the other leaders in [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Father Jake Stops the World: Canterbury Responds to the Gafconites
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The Lead: Highlights from The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns’ GAFCON news conference
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The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, CANA, led a news teleconference this morning to tell reporters about the significant happenings at the recent GAFCON conference in Jerusalem.
The major topics of discussion in the teleconference was the formation of a Primates Council and the green light GAFCON has given for the formation of a new province [...]
Modern Churchpeople’s Union: Ethos of Anglicanism "betrayed"
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MUST READ: a news release from the Modern Churchpeople’s Union:
As liberal Christians we reject outright the claim of The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans to be the representatives of orthodox Anglicanism. Their claim to be traditionalists is as bogus as their claim to speak on behalf of half of the world’s Anglicans.
Contrary to their claims, the [...]
Sightings: Martin Marty on Pew Study of Religion in America
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This time the “key finding” is that Americans are very religious, but they are seldom dogmatic and often quite tolerant, improvising adaptations in their own belief systems right under the noses of church authorities.
Text at GOD, CHRIST: QUESTIONS & FAITH: Martin Marty on Pew Study of Religion in America
Episcopal Life Online: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has responded to the Global Anglican Future Conference
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[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has responded to the Global Anglican Future Conference with the following statement.
Much of the Anglican world must be lamenting the latest emission from GAFCON. Anglicanism has always been broader than some find comfortable. This statement does not represent the end of Anglicanism, merely another chapter in [...]
Of course, I could be wrong: Comment to Archbishop of Canterbury responds to GAFCON statement
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The Mad Priest has this comment for the Archbishop of Canterbury’s response to the GAFCON statement:
I wonder what those scholars who try to work out which of the Epistles of Paul were actually written by Paul would make of this. All I will say is that there is something in the language, style and grammar [...]
Christianity Today Movies: Maher’s Religulous Gets Vicious
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Josh Hurst writes:
“I don’t need to make fun of religion. It makes fun of itself.” That’s what Bill Maher says about his upcoming documentary, Religulous, in MovieMaker Magazine. The film—which is billed as “an uproarious nonfiction film about the greatest fiction ever told”—lampoons various religions and religious groups worldwide—and, if it’s anything like [...]
Ruth Gledhill – Times Online: Summer of Schism: Cantuar slams Gafcon
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A strong statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams warning of the risks being taken by Gafcon. He urges them to think carefully, says the way ahead will be problematic and challenges those who have accepted clergy disciplined for ’scandalous’ behaviour in another jurisdiction to think again. Read it all below. And precisely what [...]
Anglican Communion News Service: Archbishop of Canterbury responds to GAFCON statement
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has responded to the final declaration of the Global Anglican Future Conference with the following statement:
The Final Statement from the GAFCON meeting in Jordan and Jerusalem contains much that is positive and encouraging about the priorities of those who met for prayer and pilgrimage in the last [...]
Bishop Alan’s Blog: GAFCON future: not quite Jerusalem?
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Looking at the GAFCON statement from Jerusalem, it all looks fair enough to me. Very few faithful Anglicans will disagree with anything positive the statement affirms. It’s pretty much what we all thought we were doing anyway. What disturbs is its claim to have the exclusive franchise on “orthodoxy” and what this implicitly denies about [...]
Christianity Today: GAFCON Statement Contains No Explicit Sanctity of Life (ProLife) Endorsement
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Timothy C. Morgan writes:
Many GAFCON pilgrims are headed home and I met two of them at Ben Gurion airport disappointed that their efforts to include an explicit affirmation of the prolife cause was left off the statement and declaration. In reality, relatively few changes were made to the GAFCON declaration as the rank and file [...]
The Lead: The response back home (to GAFCON)
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Jim Naughton writes:
The anti-gay crusade being led by Archbishops Peter Jensen and Henry Orombi, among others, is not receiving uniformly good reviews back home.
See this excellent summary with links: The Lead
Atheist Geoff Arnold: On GAFCON – How to shoot yourself in the foot… |
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INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE: Geoff Arnold writes in conclusion:
Well, maybe. I don’t see how a split [in the Anglican Communion] can be avoided: I reckon that the only thing still to be decided is who will play the part of the Judean Popular People’s Front. But the reactionaries really have to make their move now: all of [...]
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: Religion in American Culture
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THIS IS HOW to review the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. A series of interactive pages, summaries, charts, maps. A well designed site:
Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social [...]
Telegraph: Charles Darwin was not the father of atheism
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RECOMMENDED: George Pitcher writes with humor and facts:
So we can expect the celebrations of Darwin’s genius to start this week and run through next year, the 200th anniversary of the great man’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his On the Origin of Species.
Less happily, there will doubtless be jolly parties [...]
Covenant: The Jerusalem Communique
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Canon Neal Michell writes:
Cra-a-ckk!! Can you hear it? Can you hear the cracks of the foundations of Christendom cracking in the Anglican Communion?
Read Canon Neal Michell: The Jerusalem Communique’ | Covenant
In a Godward direction: GAFCON Bubble and Squeak
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Tobias Haller writes:
In the meantime, [the GAFCON] proclamation reads like a hodge-podge, a dish of hash, or what the Brits refer to as “bubble and squeak” (a tasty dish of leftover taters and cabbage that makes eponymous noises in the fry-pan). It is full of sound and fury, and though signifying something, it is nothing [...]
Anglican Centrist: GAFCON
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The group which calls itself GAFCON has issued a ‘Jerusalem Declaration.’ Much of it is what I also believe. Yet, because I don’t share every word of their declaration, I am a heretic according to them.
Read the full analysis at Anglican Centrist: GAFCON
Santos Woodcarving Popsicles: Tradition is the living faith of dead people
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The Rev. Peter M. Carey gives us something to think about at the Santos Woodcarving Popsicles blog.
“Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole [...]
Christian Today: PCUSA Assembly approves deleting gay clergy ban
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The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s highest governing body voted last Friday in favour of a proposal that would allow for the ordination of non-celibate gays and lesbians.
The 218th General Assembly, meeting in San Jose, California, this week voted 380-325 to send the overture – that would delete the requirement that clergy live in “fidelity within the [...]
