REALLY. "Mutual respect", for whom, exactly? For Bishop William Love, who was forced out because he refused this salvation denying resolution? "Theological diversity"! What theological diversity? Theological diversity in TEC now means inclusion of just one position, a position that so-called progressives, have now bullied the Church into accepting the unacceptable at multiple General Conventions and will now enshrine into canon law: that General Convention resolutions trump scripture.
Read moreFollowing his latest gaffe, there were calls for him to resign. A "twitter storm" erupted over the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments with calls for him to step down being posted across social media.
Read moreAs the COVID-19 pandemic forced churches to close their physical doors in the spring of 2020, Episcopal congregations across the United States and around the world began to re-imagine what it means to be the church. Physical distancing became a reality.
Read moreThe statement noted that, "the church does not condemn persons of homosexuality tendencies but absolutely condemn the sinful acts and activities they perform".
Read moreWelby then undermined his own position, saying; "It is unlikely that we will have a single common understanding. We are a global communion with more than 2000 languages, and such deeply embedded and possibly different views of what is right and wrong, both culturally and in our understanding of the Bible. But this is what marks the Church out as different.
Read more"At last, the possibility exists for a communion that is fully confessional and fully conciliar led by those who are determined to be a voice for biblical faithfulness within the larger Anglican Communion! For biblically faithful congregations and dioceses in heterodox Provinces, this is another beacon of hope," wrote Canon Phil Ashey of the American Anglican Council.
Read moreSo how has this fact impacted churches across the country? By most reckoning, badly. Churches were forced to close their doors, invent Zoom services, with pastors and priests divided over government and medical mandates to wear masks, with cries of freedom ringing from pulpit to pew. There have been a multitude of lawsuits over the last year over various governmental orders to churches and faith organizations to simply shut down during the COVID -19 pandemic.
Read moreThe primary doctrinal difference that separates Anglicans, indeed all Protestants from Rome is "justification," says Collins.
"For me it is the heart of what I believe as a Christian and as an Anglican how Roman Catholics answer the most basic human question, "Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?" (Job 4:17), is my biggest hurdle to becoming one of them."
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Read moreAs Episcopal revisionists (now called progressives) have swept all before them, embracing pansexuality in all its forms; the remnant have either fled to greener spiritual pastures, or been cancelled and pushed into a corner of irrelevance. The Communion Partner bishops are a case in point. Does anybody really care what they think?
It's a bit like a pride of lions (read bishops) at a zoo, having devoured a dead cow, looking up charmingly at the zookeeper and saying, "let's talk."
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