Here is what they wrote:
"In light of that fellowship, we note with great concern the disciplinary action now moving forward against our brother, Bishop Bill Love. We stand in solidarity with him. We are dismayed that latitude is extended to some in the enforcement of canons, but not to others. We continue to seek adaptive solutions to the current difficulty that will ensure a lasting path forward for mutual flourishing."
Read more"I am saying 'Anglican family' rather than 'Anglican Communion' because we're a very fractured communion but we're still family -- like so many families, quarreling till the cows come home," he said. "What gives us our family solidarity is, of course, that dependence on God's call, God's welcome.
Read moreBut no, the HOB meeting in Minneapolis this week wanted everyone to feel their pain of exclusion, and then whine, cajole and somehow let it be known that the grand "doctrine" of inclusion was under siege. They wanted to let Justin Welby know that their faux outrage could not be ignored. Oh, the pain! They did everything short of rending their cassocks and declare themselves out of communion with Canterbury. But it was not to be.
Read moreBishop Love's "sin" is that he dared to stand up and say that God does not, nor has He ever approved of sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman and for his faithful stand he will get the equivalent of a beheading, or be burnt at the stake. Thomas Cranmer would be proud of him. He also said that diocesan canons trump General Convention resolutions, a heresy that shrieks for correction. His execution will be done with all the high-sounding nomenclature of inclusion.
Read moreVOL: I am here to worship plant life now that you have okayed that plants will forgive me my sins.
I want to make sure there are appropriate plants that I can worship.
SEMINARIAN: What sort of sort of plant do you have in mind, Dr. Virtue?
VOL: Preferably cactus.
SEMINARIAN: Why cactus?
VOL: When I self-flagellate I want those little spikes to really dig in and cause the blood to flow. That way I can get closer to Jesus' suffering and passion.
Read moreThe left has already won with the Obergefell ruling, a landmine ruling that not even President Trump has dared to publicly step on or tweet about, even though he has addressed the abortion issue with public acclamation from evangelicals.
The deeper truth is that any criticism of homosexual behavior already proscribed by mainline churches and leftist elites would suddenly now be met with hate "crime" charges resulting in heavy fines and jail time.
Read more"Prostrating himself before a memorial to those shot in the Jallianwala Bagh walled garden in Amritsar, the Most Rev Justin Welby said that the shootings were a crime and a sin.
Read moreThe member for South Holland and The Deepings, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Hayes (Cons.) tabled six questions to Dame Caroline Spelman (Cons.) the Second Church Estates Commissioner in Parliament on the Anglican Communion, GAFCON, and the Church of England on 24 July 2019. Mrs. Spelman responded as follows:
Read moreIn Sept. 2014, I headlined a story, "The Washed-Up World of the Anglican Church of Wales." In it I quoted the Anglican Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev. Dr. Barry Morgan, as saying that he would resist the founding of another province with every fiber of his body. He was, of course, alluding to the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). He made this statement at the 2009 Virginia Annual Council.
Read moreOn the Average Sunday Attendance (ASA) side of the ledger, TEC dipped below one million active domestic worshippers in 2015 when the numbers dropped to 579,780 people in the pews and churchwide figures fell in 2017 to 585,997 Sunday worshippers.
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