The standing committee responded in a letter to the diocese, vowing to "continue fighting to uphold your right to choose our next bishop," and saying the episode "presents a danger to every bishop and diocese in the Episcopal Church."
Read moreLast year, the Ozanne Foundation received £177,500 income, including £137,500 from Government funds to run a conference at the Foreign Office promoting progressive theology to Global South church leaders.
Ms Ozanne is in Australia for a speaking tour across the nation, ending with an appearance at World Pride Conference at the beginning of March.
Read moreFor Anglicans the words reform and catholic go together. They're not separated from each other like they are for most Protestants. For them, the Reformation is about getting away from what was catholic. For Anglicans it's not. In this regard, the English Reformation was more about reforming, or better re-forming, the Medieval Western Church where she had drifted away from the Ancient Church. It was an effort to return or to restore what is catholic or truly universal to the Christian faith.
Read more"The Archbishop of Canterbury commented last week at the ACC in Ghana that these structures are always able to change with the times.
"We note the statement issued today by some Anglican Primates and we fully appreciate their position. As was reaffirmed in multiple discussions at the ACC in Ghana however, no changes to the formal structures of the Anglican Communion can be made unless they are agreed upon by the Instruments of Communion.
Read moreI am absolutely fascinated by what is happening at Asbury University. First of all I am Christian and I realize the need for God to break through in today's world, since He has been kicked to the curb by society and we all have suffered for it.
I, like many others, have pleaded with God to send revival. And it looks like He has heard our collective prayer and is answering it, in His own way, through a small Christian college in east central Kentucky.
Read moreIt has been for us the greatest privilege and one that we continue to delight in and to be enriched by. The unity we have enjoyed in Christ, and in the one Spirit, has been a wonderful expression of the Kingdom of God in its glorious variety and, a foretaste of a future Kingdom where one day every nation, tribe, people and language will bow before the Lamb upon His throne, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Read more2. As much as the GSFA Primates also want to keep the unity of the visible Church and the fabric of the Anglican Communion, our calling to be 'a holy remnant' does not allow us be "in communion" with those provinces that have departed from the historic faith and taken the path of false teaching. This breaks our hearts and we pray for the revisionist provinces to return to 'the faith once delivered' (Jude 3) and to us.
Read moreOther churches have had to cancel services because there is no parking space for their own parishioners near the church. Mt. Freedom Baptist Church has had to do this.
Some churches have opened their doors to provide safe space, quiet prayer space, and much needed bathroom facilities. Wilmore Christian Church has done this.
Churches are also offering parking. Wilmore United Methodist Church is doing that and is shuttling visitors to the Asbury campus and back again.
Read moreWe are deeply disappointed by the Church of England's decision and unequivocally state that the blessing of same-sex unions has no biblical ground whatsoever, since Scripture teaches unambiguously that marriage is between one man and one woman. The Church of England has said that their doctrine of marriage remains unchanged.
Read moreAsbury University has experienced revival before -- eight times previously in 1905, 1908, 1921, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1992 and 2006. But the 2023 revival is different because of the immediacy of social media.
Through social networks people around the world are getting real time glimpses of what is happening on the ground in the college town of Wilmore, Kentucky. A municipality so small there are only two traffic lights in town.
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