Welby must now face the fact that if he cannot win them over, therefore the next best thing is to undermine them.
Welby must now employ his considerable secular management skills to achieve the end for which he hopes for.
Read moreOf course, it won't happen. Bishop Love is already guilty and the hearing will only confirm the verdict with the judge and jury made up of progressive Episcopal minds who would not dare go against the episcopal zeitgeist. He is guilty till proven innocent and there is no sexual innocence in TEC; that ship sailed a long time ago.
Read moreSpeaking to reporters at the end of a three-day Primates' meeting in Jordan, Welby said he wanted to see the Anglican Communion begin to focus instead "on those things that affect the world, be that climate change, conflict, the need for the Church to be confident in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, carrying it out into the world ... [and] safeguarding".
Read moreWith a nod to those who experience same-sex attraction, the ACNA bishops said they engaged in a unified conversation around the opportunity for pastoral care to those within our churches who are same-sex attracted.
Read more2. The Anglican Church in North America, already well over 130,000 strong with over 1,000 parishes will continue to grow. New churches are aborning in the US, Canada and Mexico and there is every indication that they will continue to expand and grow in 2020. If you preach the gospel, call people to faith in Jesus Christ and disciple them, they will grow. No brainer really.
Read moreSt. Paul's was the home of the late Everett "Terry" Fullam, who served as rector of the parish which became nationally famous as a tall steeple parish in the mainline Protestant renewal movement. Fullam experienced spiritual renewal as a result of another evangelical Episcopal priest, Dennis Bennett.
Read moreLectures were offered up by representatives from the Church of the Province of West Africa, the Church of England, The Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Church of Canada -- plus one ecumenical partner. Not a single representative from an orthodox province or diocese was present. The outcome was foreordained.
Read moreThis could mean, that in a few years the USA and Canada could be home to as many as half a dozen dioceses of the Anglican Church of Nigeria and possibly more if the Anglican Diocese of the West also expands into multiple dioceses.
Read more2. Wayne Grudem, a leading Calvinist theologian and prominent complementarian, made the "brilliant" discovery that abuse might be grounds for divorce. Apparently, it took him more than 60 years to discover that in 1 Cor. 7:15, the phrase "in such cases" should be understood to include any cases that similarly destroy a marriage. Therefore, he concluded that abuse is such a case. Like WOW, where has he been for the last 30 years.
Read moreThe rage across the blogosphere is so divisive that lifetime friendships have been severed, families torn apart with the political divide so deep that millions of Christians will go unreconciled to their graves.
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