According to Jonathan Wynne-Jones in the Sunday Telegraph: Conservative Christians will throw down the gauntlet to the Archbishop of Canterbury this week by demanding that he openly disowns the American church over gay bishops. A letter to be sent to…
The New York Times has Groups Plan New Branch to Represent Anglicanism by Neela Banerjee. Associated Press had Breakaway Episcopalians Form Partnership. Reuters had Conservative Episcopalians plot separate church. The Washington Times has Episcopalians plan to leave denomination by Julia…
Two opinions on New Orleans: The Tablet has a leader: Fragile compromise: …Some evangelical bishops in Africa in particular seem keen to impose something akin to provincial uniformity on the American Church, where no deviation from their own hard line…
The official announcement about the tribunal decision is here: Appellate Tribunal determination on Women Bishops: The Anglican Church’s highest legal authority, the Appellate Tribunal, has cleared the way for the consecration of women as diocesan bishops across Australia. In a…
Peter Selby writes in the Guardian’s Face to Faith column and reflects on how wars have challenged the modern church. Jonathan Romain writes in The Times that Jews don’t have to believe – if they do what He says. Christopher…
Fulcrum has responses to what the American bishops said. Fulcrum Response to the Statement from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church Fulcrum Comparative Study of Statements From Dar es Salaam and New Orleans Andrew Goddard, ‘Half Empty, Half…
The Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes (NACDAP) announces Anglican Bishops Take First Steps to New Structure. Anglican bishops from ten jurisdictions and organizations pledged to take the first steps toward a “new ecclesiastical structure†in North America. The…
The following letter to the editor was published today in full in the Church of England Newspaper and in a shorter form in the Church Times. from Eeva John, the Revd Geoff Maughan, and the Revd Dr David Wenham Sir,…
From June 25 to 28, 2008, Montreal, Que. will host the third biennial Anglican-Lutheran worship conference. The theme is “order and chaos” and speakers will be Gordon Lathrop, liturgical scholar from Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and Karen Ward, pastor of Seattle’s Church of the Apostles.
Last week’s Church Times contained a comment article written by me and titled Discrimination: a lost opportunity. For previous Church Times coverage of the Archbishops’ Council response, see here. For the original response to the Discrimination Law Review, go here….