Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 31st, 2007

The original Word document that was at the centre of this story last week was published on the web five days ago. It does not seem to have attracted much notice. Go here and scroll down to find it. If…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 31st, 2007

Ruth Gledhill has more on her blog about this: Speculation over whether Atwood et al to come to Lambeth The Times had this report from Rob Crilly in Nairobi US congregations defect to Africa as schism over gay priests widens…

Anglican Church of Canada News on August 30th, 2007

[ACNS] The Provincial Secretaries of the Anglican Communion met in Hong Kong from 23 to 30 August 2007 for the sixth in a series of informal meetings started in the 1980s. Provincial Secretaries are key administrators for each province and the conference programme was designed to further their professional development, encourage them in their faith and ministry, increase knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing other Provinces and to strengthen bonds within the Communion.

Peter Owen at Thinking Anglicans on August 30th, 2007

William Atwood and William Murdoch were today ordained bishops by Kenya’s Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi (and, one assumes, at least two other bishops). Ruth Gledhill in The Times US priests become Kenyan bishops in gay protest BBC US Anglicans join Kenyan…

Anglican Church of Canada News on August 28th, 2007

When she was 26, Bessie Quirt left her Ontario home to teach at a residential school in the Northwest Territories. “At four o’clock we landed at Hay River,” she wrote in her diary on Aug. 3, 1929. “I could scarcely believe that I was actually in the flesh at the Hay River Indian School.” Seventy-eight years later, General Synod archives staff are reading through Miss Quirt’s faded notes–and hundreds of other documents–to find names of former residential school students.

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 25th, 2007

As reported previously, the Province of Uganda will consecrate one American bishop on Sunday 2 September. In addition to the links from that report, here is the full text of a letter from Archbishop Orombi to the Rectors, Clergy, and…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 25th, 2007

The consecration of two American bishops by the Anglican Church of Kenya is scheduled for next Thursday. The latest Kenyan press reports on this: The Nation Anglicans plan to send clergy to America. East African Standard Nzimbi to Consecrate Two…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 25th, 2007

Rachel Boulding reports it in the Church Times headlined Be united and let Jesus smile again, begs Dr Tutu and Matthew Davies reports it in Episcopal News Service under Tutu urges full Lambeth participation. THE ARCHBISHOP Emeritus of Cape Town,…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 25th, 2007

In The Times Stephen Plant asks How can there can be forgiveness without remorse? Glynn Cardy writes in the Guardian about the model of the church as a ship in Face to Faith. The surprise of thatched churches is discussed…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on August 23rd, 2007

The Church Times has a report by Pat Ashworth headed Software suggests Minns rewrote Akinola’s letter. A BISHOP in the United States has been revealed as the principal author of a seminal letter to the Church of Nigeria from its…