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February 07 2004
GUATEMALA DISASSOCIATES ITSELF FROM IARCA AND ROBINSON CONSECRATION
This election, consent and consecration would have been one more act in the long line of apostolic succession in the Episcopal Church had if not been for the fact that the Rt Revd Gene Robinson is a declared homosexual that cohabits with another man in a relationship that is no secret, rather openly known and tolerated in the Diocese of New Hampshire and the rest of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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February 06 2004
Episcopalians may limit church funding
The conference is the first in Mississippi since the consecration of
openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire in 2003 and the
approval of same-sex unions.
The Rev. Reed Freeman, rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in
Hattiesburg, said his church probably lost some members over the
controversy, but said those who left may be people who weren't involved
in the church.
February 06 2004
New bishop of Florida won't ordain gays or celebrate their unions
Clarifying his own place in the disagreement after months of silence,
the newly installed bishop said he would not ordain active homosexuals
or allow their unions to be celebrated, but promised to oppose any
limits on the diocese's participation in the national Episcopal Church.
February 05 2004
TENNESSEE: DIOCESAN CONVENTION STALLS
"As a result the business of the convention remains unfinished, and at some point Bishop Herlong will have to call us to reconvene."
The motion to adjourn was based on the questionable legality of eight 'proxy' votes of clergy who were not in attendance at the meeting at Christ Church Cathedral at Ninth Avenue North and Broadway.
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February 05 2004
A Faith divided: International Anglican mission brings more conservative message
Colorado Springs may seem a strange locale for mission work. The Rev. Ken Ross, senior pastor for the IAC, once would have agreed. He wanted to start a Rwandan mission church in Washington, D.C., or Connecticut, and thought Colorado Springs needed “another white, middle-class church like it needs a hole in the head.”
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February 05 2004
Anglican Communion sees IAC as destructive movement
The Anglican Mission was formed in 2000 by Anglicans overseas as a radical way to combat what they saw as growing liberalism within the Episcopal Church U.S.A. The group sponsors Anglican “missionaries” in the United States who teach a far more conservative version of Anglicanism.
Pastors for the IAC here, the Rev. Ken Ross and the Rev. Jay Greener, believe the Anglican Mission is more in line with what most Anglicans worldwide believe.
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February 05 2004
BOLIVIAN BISHOP SAYS ECUSA NO LONGER REPRESENTS ANGLICANISM IN US
Holy Cross Anglican Church will hold their first services on February 8th with a Traditional Anglican Worship format and also a Contemporary Anglican format. Bishop Lyons was the guest of a celebratory worship service and reception in his honor at Holy Cross Anglican Church this evening at 7:00 p.m. at Loganville Middle School in Loganville, GA, just outside of Atlanta.
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February 04 2004
KENTUCKY: From a church split, two families form
Most of St. Andrews' parishioners had been members of the older congregation but left after diocesan leaders fired the entire governing board at St. John's.
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February 04 2004
KENTUCKY: St. Andrew's pastor feels called to new Versailles parish
It's a decision he and his wife have struggled with. "Claire has asked me a million times, 'Are you sure you're getting this right?'" he told his new congregation yesterday. "I have told her time and time again, 'Yes, this is the Lord.'"
Brannen, the new rector of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Versailles, said he has felt called by God before, in 1990.
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February 03 2004
CULTURE WARS: The End of Marriage in Scandinavia
More precisely, it has further undermined the institution. The separation of marriage from parenthood was increasing; gay marriage has widened the separation. Out-of-wedlock birthrates were rising; gay marriage has added to the factors pushing those rates higher.
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