Of course, it was hastened by former Nigerian primate Peter Akinola who wrote the book, Who Blinks First? Biblical Fidelity Against the Gay Agenda in the Global Anglican Communion. That book was a slam dunk at Rowan Williams who told the African primate he would blink first over the Anglican Communion's inevitable acceptance of homosexuality. It never happened. Both sides became more entrenched in their views.
Read moreFive things can be said about her:
1. She was the official head of the Church of England.
2. She spoke openly about her Christian faith.
3. Trust in God was 'foundational' in her life.
4. She met with five popes in her lifetime.
5. She was friends with late evangelist Billy Graham.
Beach cited the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who encouraged a structure in North America so "we can keep these fellow Anglicans in the fold."
"We will continue to offer safe harbor for those in Provinces whose leaders walk away from the moral teaching of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and our Anglican heritage."
Read moreOf course, it will all be too late. Evangelicals now have fat bodies and are deemed to have little or no mind. As the late Anglican scholar Dr. J. I. Packer observed, "Evangelical minds are 3,000 miles wide and half an inch deep."
We are fast approaching the point in which the Church of Jesus Christ in all its myriad forms in America will be viewed as the single biggest reason for its collapse.
Read moreVOL: If the Diocese of the Southern Cross is a cult, then so is the extra-provincial GAFCON diocese in NZ; the Anglican Church in North America, The Nigerian Anglican breakaway diocese known as CONNAM, The Anglican Network in Canada, the Anglican Mission in England, GAFCON Europe, the entire Continuing Church movement which broke away from the Episcopal Church in 1977 and on and on.
Read moreThe New York location would be more or less centrally located in the original nine Episcopal statewide dioceses of: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and South Carolina. These founding dioceses are memorialized by the nine small white stylized Jerusalem crosses in the classic blue field in the top left corner of the Episcopal shield and church flag.
Read moreIt also signals that revisionist provinces in the West no longer hold the high ground in global Anglicanism as increasingly orthodox Anglicans breakaway from their revisionist bishops and clergy to form new faithful Anglican parishes and dioceses.
Read moreThe new bishop of Virginia, E. Mark Stevenson, also a conservative, decided to change his mind on the hot button issue and easily obtained consents.
It's doubtful that had Holt been duly elected he would have gotten consents from the church's House of Bishops. "Beloved Community" is the fabled fiction of PB Michael Curry, another source opined. Curry's much-ballyhooed "beloved community" clearly does not include priests and bishops who do not roll over to the homosexual zeitgeist.
Read moreThe Most Rev. Geoffrey Smith, Primate of Australia and Archbishop of Adelaide noted the formal launch of the Diocese of the Southern Cross. The new diocese will be under the leadership of Bishop Glenn Davies, retired Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales.
Read more"In Lambeth 1:10, we are standing for the authority of the bible. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Anything else is queering the authority of the bible. It is not just about sexuality but the authority of the bible. But do we? I would think no. It is not respecting the authority of scripture."
Jensen said the GAFCON bishops played a leading role in holding Welby to account. He said Welby squashed the dissent of the orthodox bishops present.
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