This trip to Alaska was billed as a focus on indigenous culture as well as environmental justice.
There is profound irony about the choice of location.
Recent statistics reveal the Alaska diocese had dropped by a whopping 18.8% - the only domestic diocese that had an ASA double-digit percentage loss!
The reason for the attendance decline coincides with new ACNA parishes in Fairbanks and Anchorage!
One wonders if Presiding Bishop Michael Curry was aware of that.
Read moreNow a Black Presiding Bishop rode into town announcing that the Episcopal Church would henceforth move in a different direction with the Jesus Movement, causing bewilderment amongst his theologically liberal bishops, who were now being told they had to evangelize (yep that's the word), so people would hear the Good News with revivals he planned to hold around the country.
Read moreWith the consent of both Standing Committees, Bishops Franklin and Rowe discussed with clergy a plan for the two dioceses to consider the possibility of a shared future. (This is code for juncturing).
Read moreThe College of Bishops unanimously agreed that women will never be consecrated as bishops in the Anglican Church in North America.
ACNA does allow women to be ordained to the Diaconate.
This decision flies in the face of a recent decision by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who oversaw the first women consecrated as bishops in the Church of England. Two weeks ago, the Anglican Church of Australia consecrated its first woman archbishop.
Read moreAnother 68 dioceses showed a discernible drop in membership including: Alaska, Albany, Arizona, Arkansas, Bethlehem, California, Central Florida, Central Gulf Coast, Central New York, Central Pennsylvania, Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, Dallas, East Tennessee, Eastern Michigan, Eastern Oregon, Easton, El Camino Real, Florida, Georgia, Indianapolis, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, and Minnesota, Mississippi, Misso
Read more"Every attempt to repair the torn fabric and heal the betrayal has made the situation worse. Collective decisions made by the Primates sitting together have not been implemented by two different Archbishops of Canterbury or his staff. The Anglican Consultative Council has flagrantly disregarded the wisdom of the Primates.
Read moreWho are the Generation Z? They are the next generation after the Millennials, aged 15 -- 25.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/move-over-entitled-millennials
"There is a long-standing process by which a province is adopted as a province of the Communion. It was a great joy for me to see Sudan go through this process and it was a privilege to be in Khartoum in July to see it become the 39th member of the Communion. ACNA has not gone through this process.
Read moreArchbishop Okoh ripped Welby saying that the only difference between the present and 2008, when GAFCON was formed, is that we have a different Archbishop of Canterbury. Everything else is the same or worse.
Read moreAs Western culture has become increasingly post-Christian, it has embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being...Will the church of the Lord Jesus Christ ...hold fast to the word of life, draw courage from Jesus, and unashamedly proclaim his way as the way of life? Will she maintain her clear, counter-cultural witness to a world that seems bent on ruin?
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