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The Call to Accountability: The Parable of the AMiA The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, Senior Fellow, The Anglican Communion Institute Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040220062522/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/accountabilityandtheamia.htm One of the most egregious failures of the ECUSA’s recent General Convention, and of the many of the leaders and bishops engaged in its decisions, has been their demonstrated rejection of Christian accountability as an essential virtue defining the life of the institutional church. The actions of General Convention itself, in consenting to a non...
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A Conversation with Bishop Allison on the Church Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040220061323/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/rad2fitz.htm Bishop FitzSimons Allison has done me the honor and blessing of addressing serious questions to me about the church’s history and calling. It is an honor, because his own witness to the Christian faith and on behalf of our church’s faithfulness is one of such substance and informed care that any public disagreement on his part with me represents the offer to become a part of a conversation colored by evangelical integrity...
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On Archbishops Kolini’s and Yong’s reply to E. Radner A brief response by E. Radner The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, Senior Fellow, The Anglican Communion Institute Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040220061552/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/radner2koliniandyong040129.htm Archbishops Kolini of Rwanda and Yong of Southeast Asia have sent out a weighty rebuke for what I have written regarding the need for mutual accountability within the larger church as we seek to right the listing vessel of the Anglican Communion’s common teaching, and the Christian teaching and witness of ECUSA...
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A Response to Bishop Johnson's Pastoral Letter Concerning the AAC Memo Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040216210428/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/responsetojohnson.htm By The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner Senior Fellow, The Anglican Communion Institute The only thing surprising about Bishop Johnson's pastoral letter is the level of vituperative hostility; the content itself represents a consistent ignorance about the Anglican Communion and a willful denial about ECUSA's standing, externally and internally, with respect to its canonical legitimacy in the eyes of both that...
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What Are We To Do? The Humiliation of Anglicanism Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040615003215/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/foa-whatarewetodo.htm Ephraim Radner A talk given at the Anglican Communion Institute Conference in Charleston, SC, 8-10 January 2004 What are we to do? What are we to do when leaders of our church teach error and drive the flock astray? What are we do to when the Communion of the Church, when the teaching Scriptures and the witness of the Saints – all inestimable gifts of God -- are alienated from our midst by neglect and open contempt...
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Children of Cain: The Oxymoron of American Catholicism Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040928085603/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org/ In the current crisis of the Episcopal Church, USA, and of the Anglican Communion, a couple of things at least have become clear. First, American Episcopalians do not understand who they are as Americans, and as a result their understanding of what is and ought to be the Christian Church in America is woefully obscured and perverted. At the same time, it has become increasingly obvious that those outside America looking in on...
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A Response to Michael Russell: Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018095359/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/russell_response.htm Dear Michael, I was forwarded a note of yours from the House of Bishops/Deputies listserve (reproduced below) – at your request it seems – regarding a recent “Plea” we posted at our Anglican Communion Institute (ACI) website (“We Are At A Crossroads”). The plea apparently hit a nerve of yours, negatively speaking, for your note was filled with a long string of sarcasm and insult. Some of what you say is true enough, up to a point: the...
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Conversations in the Communion: We Need More Than a Translator by Ephraim Radner (Feb 11, 2005) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018095541/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Conversations_in_the_Communion.htm I confess that my heart sank when reading Susan Russell's recent description of her visit to England, with other gay advocates, to talk to Communion representatives before the upcoming Primates' Meeting ["A California Yankee in King Arthur's Communion"]. Russell insists that there be "listening to" and "conversation with" gay Anglicans of the Communion, and...
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Communion and Holiness: not peace but a sword by Ephraim Radner (Jan 28, 2005) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060211195108/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Communion_and_Holiness.htm Diocese of Florida Convocation, January 28, 2005 A communion-dividing issue I come as an "insider" here. Not an insider to the actual life of the Diocese of Florida, but an insider to the same struggles of our church, within diocese and congregation; an insider to the same dilemmas, constant uncertainty, desire for resolution, fear of failure, hope for renewal. It's what I go...
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On Representing the Episcopal Church Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018103010/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/acc_misrepresentation.htm In February of this year, the Primates of the Anglican Communion suggested that the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) ask “representatives” of ECUSA to “set out the thinking behind the recent actions of their Province”, “in accordance with paragraph 141 of the Windsor Report”. This paragraph, in turn, had asked that ECUSA “demonstrate to the rest of the Communion why [proposed rites for same-sex blessings]...
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