Only two weeks earlier, the primates of the Anglican world served notice on the bishops of the American church that they must disavow same-sex marriage or be expelled from the communion.
The Canadian Anglican church is to decide the issue in June.
If the church rejects gay marriage, Ingham will no doubt be expected to recant or resign.
Read more2. The 2004 Windsor Report called upon the Episcopal Church to adopt moratoria on the blessing of same-sex unions and the consecration of any bishop living in a same-sex relationship. Our Convention affirmed these recommendations in November of that year. Now, because the 2006 General Convention failed to do so, the Communique asks the House of Bishops to adopt these moratoria in clear, unequivocal language by Sept. 30, 2007.
Read moreNo Catholic serious about the Catholic commitment to the unity of Christ's Church can take any satisfaction from today's Anglican meltdown. It now looks as if John Henry Newman was right when he concluded that Anglicanism was not a "third branch" on the tree of historic Christian orthodoxy, of which the other branches were Catholicism and the Orthodox churches of the Christian east; rather, Newman decided, Anglicanism was Protestantism in English guise.
Read moreTrue, they name The Windsor Report first and Lambeth 1.10 second. Someone may say: "I can agree with TWR without agreeing to Lambeth 1.10." Well, you may say so, but this is not what the Primates are saying. The Recommendation intentionally couples TWR as the practical outworking of the Lambeth Resolution. Lest there be any doubt about how they read TWR, they include this statement.
Read moreNot only does the doctrine of Provincial Autonomy make divergence in ethos and doctrine virtually inevitable, but the resulting weakness of common structures (the so-called Instruments of Unity) makes disciplining errant provinces severely difficult. And when that province is TEC, the predominant source of funding for the Communion's central secretariat, it is impossible.
Read moreThe latest attempt by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, at "muddling through" in order to save the Worldwide Anglican Communion from certain doom (a doom precipitated by the liberal wing's pro-homosexual agenda) appears to be another artful attempt by an Englishman to navigate the religious quagmire in order to find a compromise that will satisfy everyone - and save the Communion.
Read moreConservative Anglicans were further outraged when the American church took steps to authorize the blessing of same-sex unions, a move that admittedly contradicted traditional Christian sexual morality.
Read moreA few clarifying remarks might be helpful. Nepal is a very poor country and most of the pastors came from very poor villages in the mountains of Nepal. Daily life for them was a struggle. Not all could read, but many could. The testimonies that I heard were from people who were either Buddhist or Hindu before they became Christians.
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Read moreIs Jesus divine and thus the second person of the Godhead? In the church today it seems to be all right if you believe it yourself and choose it among the many other expressions of faith that are presented. It certainly makes it easier to live in a world which has turned its back on God's truth. It does not offend and thus we are safe.
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