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My dear Brother Stephen, I had finished a draft of this letter before the recent meeting at which Bishop Duncan expressed his view that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Conference are "lost" in so far as they can serve as instruments of communion. He has expressed to me in private views similar to these on several occasions; but now that they have been expressed in such a public manner I feel a response to your open letter is even more urgent than when I first sat down to write. In your Open Letter to Network Bishops and Common Cause Partners you advise these Bishops that the time...
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Dear Stephen, Thank you for your gracious reply to my response to your open letter calling for a "full and final separation" between those whom you term a "faithful remnant" and The Episcopal Church (TEC). Knowing you as I do I was certain there would be a reply, but I nonetheless hoped against hope that none would be forthcoming. I say this not because I am not open to theological exchange, but because the medium (blogs) now used for such exchanges encourages hasty and ill tempered response and counter response. I have no desire to be involved in such a back and forth and I presume you do not...
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In August of 2007, we posted on the ACI site an essay by Dr. Jacqueline Jenkins Keenan. (The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc. - Why Theology Should Precede Change) In this essay, Dr. Keenan provided an overview of a number of recent scientific studies questioning the claims made by many that there is a biological basis to homosexuality that renders it an immutable condition. These claims have also been made by some leaders in the Episcopal Church as part of their defense of the church's affirmation of homosexual unions. They were made quite formally by the official response of TEC to the...
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Editor's note: In response to renewed interest on the blogosphere to the topics covered, I am re-posting the original response (from '04) that Ephraim Radner wrote to an article about him written by the Rt. Rev Fitzsimmons Allison. 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...
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I have just returned from work at Camp Allen with my colleague Philip Turner. Given our season of prayer and challenge, I found the attached sermon especially uplifting. ACI is happy to share it with the wider blogosphere. Grace and Peace, Chris Seitz President, ACI LOOK TOWARD HEAVEN AND NUMBER THE STARS A SERMON BY THE REV. DR. PHILIP TURNER GEN. 15:1-6 HEB. 11:1-3; 8-16 LUKE 12:32-40 And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendents be." And He believed the Lord; and he reckoned it...
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The ACI has long hoped to encourage the reflection and writing of developing scholars and theologians, much as SEAD, in a previous era, did through its conferences and occasional journal The Harvest. In an effort to renew such a path, we have begun to place on our website the work of some newer voices, and will continue to do so. Craig David Uffman is a senior M.Div. student at Duke Divinity School. A former businessman, he has a passion for church-planting and recently toured and studied in some significant areas of the Global South where evangelism is being vigorously and faithfully pursued...
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For easier reading and forwarding, and to access a copy with Dr. Radner's footnotes , democracyviolence-ephraimradner . This talk was originally given in January, 2007 at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, at a continuing education conference on the future of the Anglican Communion. As the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops meets during these days to assess their own relation to the Communion, and the Communion's leadership - either together or in smaller, more localized or even autonomous groups - seeks to respond and chart their own way forward as a Communion or as something else...
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The Right Reverend Jim Stanton, Bishop of Dallas and member of the Board of ACI, Inc., offers his reflections on the recent House of Bishops meeting. Read it all here.....
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In attempting to evaluate the HoB response it is necessary to sketch the key stages in the four years of the Windsor Process since the Lambeth Commission was created in October 2003 (Section I). It is then necessary to examine very carefully the wording of the HoB response in the light of that history (Section II). Here a major question arises concerning the stance of the interpreter. Some people, as becomes especially obvious in times of crisis, are optimistic and generous ('surely it's half full') while others tend to be pessimistic and suspicious ('actually, it's half empty (at best)')...
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Anglican Communion Institute Response to the New Orleans House of Bishops Statement With brief reflections on the report of the Joint Standing Committee Introduction and Context In July 2006, following the response of General Convention to the requests of the Windsor Report, the Archbishop of Canterbury said, "There is no way in which the Anglican Communion can remain unchanged by what is happening at the moment". In February 2007, the Primates at Dar concluded that "the response of The Episcopal Church to the requests made at Dromantine has not persuaded this meeting that we are yet in a...
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