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July 12 2004 By virtueonline AKRON: Homosexuality Debate Divides Three Episcopal Churches

• Church of Our Saviour is proud to be part of the Episcopal Church USA, which ordained an openly gay bishop.

• St. Luke's is still Episcopal but would rather not be.

• Hudson Anglican never was Episcopal, having started with people who left the Episcopal Church over the ordination.

Those differences are a reflection of the division that remains within the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion.

July 12 2004 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Church of England Rejects Heresy Courts Proposal

Under the proposals, new heresy courts, headed by bishops and advised by panels of theologians, would hear cases in which priests were alleged to have erred on doctrine, ritual or ceremonial.

The Church of England has been rocked by a number of doctrinal controversies in the last century, notably that of the teaching of the former Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev David Jenkins, in relation to the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection.

July 11 2004 By virtueonline COLORADO: Rift over same-sex ceremonies frays Episcopal diocese

He argues that Winterrowd, who retired in January, paved the way for today's disputes by secretly laying down guidelines for same-sex blessings 10 years ago - but testified otherwise during a 1999 lawsuit brought by a lesbian youth minister.

"That's a bald-faced lie," Winterrowd retorts. "If Mr. Armstrong feels that way, he ought to make a presentment (church complaint) against me."

July 10 2004 By virtueonline WASHINGTON D.C.: Anglo-Catholic Parish to Host Griswold, Gomez

Nonetheless, the rector, the Rev. Andrew Sloane, announced in the parish publication, The Epistle, that Bishop Griswold would be at the parish for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter, 2005. Fr. Sloane did not say what role Griswold would play in these observances.

July 10 2004 By virtueonline ARIZONA: Lay Chaplain in Arizona resigns rather than 'Modify' Theology

Ms. Radosevich opposes the decisions of General Convention 2003 regarding human sexuality and disagrees with the national Church, the Diocese of Arizona and diocesan bishop Robert Shahan on the issues of ordination of practicing homosexuals as well as same sex blessings. While she refrained from expressing her opinion regarding these issues in her capacity as lay chaplain, Ms. Radosevich took a stand within the confines of Church of the Epiphany, her home parish.

July 10 2004 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Evangelicals to shun Bishop of St. Albans

Moses was a murder, he pointed out, and St Paul a religious thug before his conversion. The calling, he said, hung on a word ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

The consequences of the call he argued were “a daily struggle with the questions that trouble all of us – about purpose and meaning, about whether what we are doing is really God’s will.”

July 10 2004 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Evangelicals accuse Home Secretary of terror slur

He said that society needed to take on those who "would take our lives because they would reject our faith".

A number of evangelicals complained yesterday that his comments implied that they had been stirring up hatred of non-Christians.

Colin Hart, the director of the Christian Institute, a conservative pressure group, said: "To equate evangelicals with terrorists is an outrage."

July 09 2004 By virtueonline CEN: Tensions hit Eames Commission

Some Commission members are also concerned that the ACC staff will manipulate the proceedings. On Oct 2, The Church of England Newspaper reported that a memorandum to the Archbishop of Canterbury prepared by an ACC staffer, argued that it was imperative that the will of the majority of Primates be frustrated in their plans to discipline the Episcopal Church and diocese of New Westminster, Canada.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline AUSTRALIA: 'We're behind you': Sydney backs Primates

Standing Committee also supported the Primates’ call to the Commission to invoke disciplinary action, if necessary, that could involve ECUSA’s expulsion from the Communion.

It supported the Primates’ view that such extreme action was necessary because Bishop Robinson’s appointment in the Diocese of New Westminster last year demonstrated that ECUSA had ‘abandoned’ the teaching of Scripture as it relates to matters ‘necessary to salvation’.

July 08 2004 By virtueonline VERMONT: First Diocese in Nation to Issue Liturgy for Same-Sex unions

Even though clergy in the Vermont Diocese have been blessing civil unions with the bishop's permission for four years, the report is considered groundbreaking "because it gives explicit permission – which will be shared across the country – for the blessing of same-gender relationships," according to an email message from Rev. Tanya Wallace of St. Paul's.

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