Clearly the press was being misled, or else the press handlers were misled by their own handlers within this over-organized, overly scrupulous press drama. Everything about the Primates' Meeting so far smacks of big news being pre-spun through official channels. Part of the spin is that all this controversy is really nothing.
Read moreCanon Gregory Cameron, Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council said the agenda would be devoted to following through with the implications of the Windsor Report, pointing up the actions of New Westminster and the TEC's confirmation of the election of Bishop Gene Robinson, and these would highlight the meeting here.
Read moreMrs. Schori was not at the pre-primates meeting in Nairobi, Kenya this week. She will make her grand entrance on Wednesday the 14th at the White Sands Hotel in Dar es Salaam where temperatures are hot (high 80's) and spiritual temperatures even hotter. From Nairobi VOL has learned that the Ugandans and Kenyans are very well prepared for Tanzania and that they know what's at stake, but no one knows the outcome for sure.
Read moreAt no time, before or after, did Mrs.
Read moreShe says she sees two strands of faith: One is "most concerned with atonement that Jesus died for our sins and our most important task is to repent." But the other is "the more gracious strand," she said.
It "is to talk about life, to claim the joy and the blessings for good that it offers, to look forward. God became human in order that we may become divine. That's our task."
Read moreAccording to newspaper reports, the Prince of Wales worshipped at the Presbyterian Church and not Christ Church in Old City, which is descended from the Church of England because the Episcopal Church was too small. Christ Church is intimate, and its members would have taken many available seats, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer's Julie Stoiber. The Presbyterian Church seats 1,100 but has far fewer members. It was also closer to the Four Seasons hotel where the royals stayed.
Read moreIt all began when the Bishop of Bethlehem, Paul Marshall, a moderate, but left-leaning liberal bishop on sexuality issues, took a major swipe at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
Read moreTitled "For the Bible Tells Me So," it is about families split by their beliefs about homosexuality and Scripture. Robinson didn't mention that another Sundance movie ZOO expounded on the joys of bestiality, a position, along with polygamy, that logically follows now that the Pandora's Box of sexualities has sprung wide open in The Episcopal Church.
Read moreThis is the classic Anglican Way according to such diverse contemporary authorities as Peter Toon of the Prayer Book Society, Bob Duncan of the Anglican Communion Network, and Leonard Riches, Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, just to name a few.
Read moreIf the Bishop's rhetoric was sober, it was also inspiring. There were no maudlin cries of victimization at the hands of any enemy, real or imagined. The understanding throughout this first day was a consciousness of living out the gospel in history, from primal history of the New Testament martyrs, to the martyrs of the English Reformation, to today's Anglican martyrs scattered around the world.
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