Integrity officials immediately applauded the nominations for Diocese of Minnesota calling the slate of qualified candidates "stellar."
"The Diocese of Minnesota is leading the way for the rest of The Episcopal Church, as they move us forward into a future where the resolutions we passed at our recent General Convention become a reality," said Integrity President Susan Russell.
Read moreMcLaren, who was a featured speaker at Lambeth 2008 by invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, also said, "If only fundamentalists evangelize in America, what predictions can you make about the future of the American religious landscape? If Christian moderates and progressives seldom if ever share their faith with love and enthusiasm, what will their future be? To rediscover the good and true essence of evangelism, we need to rediscover evangelism in a more biblical light."
Read moreDr. Williams' response to The Episcopal Church General Convention's passage of two explosive resolutions endorsing the ordination of homosexuals as clergy and bishops and rites for same-sex unions that could bring about a de jure schism in the Communion was described by a VOL reader as so much "Ro-Babble - a Panglossian description of the blindingly obvious in 2,823 words."
Read moreThat you should have obtained a public confession from that Jefferts Schori woman that personal faith or conversion of any sort was unnecessary and was actually a Western heresy must surely go down in the annals of hellish history as a first.
We have atheists and agnostics, unbelievers and disbelievers, but to have someone actually masquerading as a Christian and publicly denying one of its central tenets is a feat of uncommon performance. You are to be congratulated.
Read moreA copy of the letter has been forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Its initial signatories include:
Read moreThis puts Dr. Rowan Williams in a very difficult position. At one level he can now offer a two-tier solution to the Anglican Communion's malaise. He can also argue that he can now recognize both TEC and ACNA. He alone decides who to invite to the Lambeth Conference, and can circumvent the Anglican Communion Office and Canon Kenneth Kearon who has sworn eternal fealty to TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada and would never recognize ACNA if his job depended on it.
Read moreFor liberal bishop Don E. Johnson, his nightmare is just beginning. His predecessor, the evangelical Alex Dickson may well have led his diocese out of The Episcopal Church. Johnson has no intention of doing that.
Read moreThe Rev. Dr. Dennis Paris, a former TEC priest, university psychology professor and author of a book on Alvarez, is one of his victims.
Read more* We reaffirm our commitment to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of Christ as this church has received them (BCP 526, 538)
* We reaffirm our commitment to the three moratoria requested of us by the instruments of Communion.
* We reaffirm our commitment to the Anglican Communion Covenant process currently underway, with the hope of working toward its implementation across the Communion once a Covenant is completed.
Read more"I don't agree with their (HOB and HOD majority) interpretation with what is the right thing. It is not a blessing but a curse. Rather than bringing people into the church it will accelerate the death of The Episcopal Church and will drive people away. It will accelerate the splitting up of the Anglican Communion and that is very sad. TEC has so much to offer. We are far from being at our best."
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