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October 03 2004 By virtueonline AUSTRALIA: Not gay, just friends says Anglican leader Peter Carnley

"Same sex relationships are best spoken of by using the category of friendship, which does not so much as raise an implication, let alone the logical necessity and thus the expectation, of sexual activity," Dr Carnley told the general synod in Fremantle on Saturday.

"Also, as Christians, we should not allow ourselves to be browbeaten by the permissive society into the view that chastity and abstinence from sexual activity is an entirely unrealistic impossibility among adults."

October 03 2004 By virtueonline ARKANSAS: What's Next? Bishop Maze faces internal diocesan revolt

And they voted to consecrate 10 bishops in dioceses around the country. One of them was the Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay man to achieve that rank within ECUSA.

More than a year later, the effects of that decision upon the 7,500 ECUSA churches are anywhere from positive to negligible to denomination-rending, depending on whom you ask. Likewise, what it means for Arkansans in Episcopal pews depends on where the pew is.

October 03 2004 By virtueonline LONDON: Conservatives fund rival US relief agency

At the weekend, Anglicans in Kenya and Uganda, in a protest against the consecration of the Rt Revd Gene Robinson, who lives with a homosexual partner, refused $125,000 from ECUSA.

The patron of the new Anglican Network fund is the Most Revd Peter Akinola, who was among the first to break communion with ECUSA over the consecration of Bishop Robinson.

October 03 2004 By virtueonline FLORIDA PRIEST FLEES ECUSA FOR AMIA: “Choose this day whom you will serve…”

To put it in the words of the first vow I took at ordination, they constitute the forsaking of “the doctrine, discipline, and worship of Christ, as this Church has received them”. I believe that for a priest to continue in the Episcopal Church is to accede to that new doctrine.

October 03 2004 By virtueonline NEW YORK: Episcopal Church May Probe Israel Business

"There's a certain moral blindness here that's very hard for me to understand," said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, which organized the summit with the Presbyterians. "Where is their pressure on the Palestinians? Where is their demand from the EU to cease funding of the Palestinian Authority unless it does something against terrorist acts?"

October 02 2004 By virtueonline LONDON: Carey: Drop 'Islamic terror' tag

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has warned that linking international terrorism and Islam was damaging.

"There is an urgent need to stop tarnishing the Muslim world by unfair stereotypes," he told the United Nations this week.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has also said there is an "iron curtain" falling between the Islamic world and the West.

October 01 2004 By virtueonline CHRISTIAN ARABS IN GRAVE DANGER IN MUSLIM WORLD

"Christians, natives of Arab countries, are escaping their countries of origin. This is a common statement nowadays everywhere and it is correct one hundred percent. Statistics show that a large number of them have emigrated to safer countries for them and for their children, like the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

October 01 2004 By virtueonline NEW YORK: Griswold Bemoans Absentee Bishops. Returns home weary

I note that the perfected Mind of the House resolution regarding the transfer of clergy is attached.

September 30 2004 By virtueonline SPOKANE: A word to the Episcopal Church from the House of Bishops

As well, we are sharply aware of tensions and pain in our church and in the Anglican Communion. During these days we have explored more fully our continuing call as your chief pastors to be ministers of reconciliation, even as we seek and discover reconciliation within ourselves, within our church and across the Communion.

September 30 2004 By virtueonline OXFORD: Anglican Mainstream interviews Sandy Millar

The reason for Alpha is simply to give people an opportunity to explore the Christian faith, in an atmosphere where they won't be made to look stupid, won't be made to look guilty but can ask any question they like. What we've discovered of course is that there's a lot more spirituality out there sometimes then there is in the church. People want to explore these things but what they want to find is an atmosphere where they can do that safely.

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