Archive for the 'News Article' Category
One Man’s Inclusion is Another Man’s Exclusion (Center Aisle)
Saturday, June 17th, 2006This is a very helpful article from a “moderate” General Convention publication. Please read it all.
Assumption number three: Reconciliation is possible if we just keep at it.
There’s an assumption that seems to underlie most of the preaching and legislative process out here: that reconciliation is possible if we just keep trying. […]
Anglican Bishops Fear Decision to Walk Apart (Houston Chronicle)
Friday, June 16th, 2006Two prominent British bishops say the Episcopal Church is not doing enough to save the Anglican Communion from breaking apart over gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.
The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, said he doubted the resolutions currently being considered by the Americans in response to the worldwide communion’s concerns could defuse the […]
“Communion is bound to conclude ECUSA has specifically chosen not to comply with Windsor”
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Bishop Tom Wright of Durham in the U.K. has just released a lengthy but very well thought-out, response to the proposed resolutions dealing with the Windsor Report that are currently winding their way through committees here at General Convention. As he sees it, they simply do not do what the Windsor Report has asked […]
Panel Hopes for Truce in Church (Columbus Dispatch)
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006The Episcopal Church USA should pledge harmony with its sister churches worldwide despite disagreements over issues of sexuality, a committee at the church’s national convention decided yesterday.
The committee is expected to take a final vote today on a resolution that says the General Convention, meeting in Columbus, “reaffirms the abiding commitment of the Episcopal […]
Bishop Beckwith on Action in the House of Bishops
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006As in conventions past, the American Anglican Council is sponsoring daily deputy briefings over the lunch hour. One of the speakers at today’s briefing was Bishop Peter Beckwith of Springfield.
According to Bishop Beckwith, business is off to a slow start in the House of Bishops. “Not much has happened,” he said, noting that […]
“In Pittsburgh, Conservative Bishop Hews to Tradition” (Columbus Dispatch)
Monday, June 12th, 2006The Episcopal Church’s General Convention will begin in Columbus next week, and talk of a schism is rampant. But Duncan insists that it’s the liberal majority that has strayed from the faith.
“We haven’t changed our view at all. Nor has the Communion. Nor has the wider Christian consensus: Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic,” he said.
“Where […]
“Episcopalians Still Wrestling With Issues of Sex” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Sunday, June 11th, 2006In the three years since the Episcopal Church USA ordained an openly gay bishop at its last General Convention, the concerted efforts of the denomination and the worldwide Anglican Communion seemed to focus on a single topic: sex. Now, with the church’s nine-day convention opening Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, those three years’ worth of arguments, […]
“Gay Concerns Divide Episcopal Church” (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
Sunday, June 11th, 2006Faced with a widening fracture of the Episcopal church in the United States, church leaders aren’t optimistic they’ll heal that split this week at their 75th annual convention. The wounds caused by the 2003 consecration of V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire are deep, officials on both sides of the issue said. […]