Take the case of Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church who called effeminate behavior "ungodly". Russell would have none of it. She accused him of being "the bully in the Bully Pulpit." She said he was advocating child abuse when all he was doing was trying to give an illustration, very poorly it seems, of a father with a son showing effeminate tendencies and urging him to nip it in the bud.
Read moreOver the past few years, numerous financial inaccuracies have allegedly been observed in the Church financial statements and Annual Reports. As a result, the parish is in danger of losing money faster than ever.
One of those involved in setting up the Endowment Fund was Robert D. Brower, an attorney, says actions by the current Vestry and priest in raiding the Endowment Fund are "nonsense and untruthful."
Read moreIn states where same-sex marriage has appeared either on the ballot or in legislatures, Episcopal Church bishops have typically supported, alongside Unitarian Universalist and liberal Protestant officials, legalizing such unions. A rare exception was Rhode Island Episcopal bishop Geralyn Wolf who argued in 2011 against efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in that state.
Read moreThe Episcopal Church draws strength from its growing immigrant population, cried Jefferts Schori to a newly minted congregation of liberal Episcopalians in the Diocese of Albany that found Albany Bishop Bill Love a bit too exclusionary (read orthodox) in his understanding of mission. They opted for the pro-gay Bishop of Central New York, Skip Adams, an arrangement worked out through DEPO that was originally designed to rescue orthodox parishes from revisionist bishops.
Read moreThe tragic facts are these: in order to maintain the illusion of a universal Church of England, inseparable from the state and its people, the Church's leaders have spent more than 150 years in trimming Christian doctrine so as not to "offend" anyone. Or to be "inclusive". Or to make the scriptures and Christian doctrine conform to the prevailing scientific fad of the day.
Read moreHepworth resigned as Primate of the TAC just prior to a meeting of the TAC's House of Bishops in Johannesburg in March. It was a swift and sudden end for Hepworth who had sought, in vain, for acceptance into the Roman Catholic Church via the Pope's offer of an Ordinariate.
Read moreVOL: Presiding Bishop, with the growing realignment in the Anglican Communion among orthodox (evangelical) Anglicans globally, where do you see the place of the Church of England in South Africa? Do you see yourself having a place at the table of global orthodox Anglicanism?
Read moreBecause there has been much misrepresentation of the Southwark Good Stewards Trust in the last few days, the Directors of the Southwark Good Stewards Company Limited issued Frequently Asked Questions ahead of the official Trust launch and reception. The Directors hope that the FAQ's may be of interest to members of churches of other Dioceses where there is also widespread concern about revisionism.
Frequently Asked Questions
Read moreOne of the bishops is The Rt. Rev. John E. Miller III of Melbourne, Florida, who will be received into the diocese by Bishop Neil G. Lebhar into the Gulf Atlantic Coast Diocese as an Assisting Bishop, providing him with a canonical residence for the next 180 days (or longer if necessary).
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