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originally posted at http://communionpartners.org/?p=64 104th Archbishop of Canterbury Lambeth Palace London, England SE1 7JU Your Grace: You will be sent a hard copy of this letter, statement and the list of signatories, but because of our desire to put this material in front of you soon, we are e-mailing this correspondence as well. We must share with you that this letter will also be made public via the trusted websites of the The Livng Church and The Anglican Communion Institute. Enclosed, please find a statement of the Communion Partner Rectors who welcome and declare our appreciation for...
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The 76th General Convention has come and gone. In some ways it was exactly like all of the previous six General Conventions I have been to as your Bishop. Issues of human sexuality, and specifically homosexuality, were once again front and center and I will get to them in a moment. But first let me say how totally proud I am of our deputation. Whether in the open hearings or in the legislative sessions - or, in the case of our Canon to the Ordinary, in the daily media briefings - they were engaged, faithful, active, and persistent. In many of the hearings it seemed as if our people were...
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Mark Harris, member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church (TEC) and writer of the blog PRELUDIUM is a perceptive and thoughtful commentator on the current scene within both TEC and the Anglican Communion. In two pieces, "The days ahead in the land of the dissatisfied: South Carolina, Albany, and points west" and "The Archbishop blows his ecclesial horn: the last trumpet has sounded," he comments on the just published statement of the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the recent actions of General Convention. He makes a number of observations and comments, some more accurate and...
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Introduction 1. In the two days since the Archbishop released his 'Reflections' on TEC's General Convention, they have already generated widely differing responses. We always knew, say some conservatives, that the ABC was a hopeless liberal, and this has confirmed it. Not so, declare many horrified radicals: he has obviously sold out to the conservatives. Some have warmly welcomed the statement and hailed it as paving the way forward. Cautious voices in between are trying to discern strengths and weaknesses. In my view, there is much to welcome, and much whose implications need further...
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I In an article entitled "Why direct sign-on now to the Covenant is a bad idea" (that appeared on his blog PRELUDIUM shortly after our article "Communion and Hierarchy") Fr. Mark Harris has done us all a big favor. He has made clear the full scope of the widespread view among TEC's present leadership that the Archbishop of Canterbury's observation about the possibility of covenant ratification on the part of dioceses is both harmful and unhelpful. Fr. Harris registers five objections to ratification on the part of individual dioceses. We will address each in due course. First, however, there...
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On the matter of ACI authorship, first ACI statements entail input from several authors, in the US, UK and Canada. Fr Matthew Olver is a Priest at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas and a contributor to the covenant-communion website. On that site, individuals can submit material available on the web, and he forwarded the essay to that readership. As for your citing Section 3.2.5.of the Covenant Text Since the request was made by the Communion, it will be the Communion which will interpret compliance/rejection. ACI does not believe that "caution" was exercised in accordance with the logic of...
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When I was much younger, I lived in Africa; and I lived there at a time when the British Empire was folding up. I was surrounded by people who had spent their lives in the colonies. These people were faced with a terribly painful and frightening question. What were they to do next? Where were they to go? The government had changed. The rules had changed. The colonial period was over, and their mother land seemed a foreign land that promised only uncertainty. "What then shall we do?" was the question of the hour; and the answers to that question were as various as the people who asked it. Some...
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The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq. The Rt. Reverend Dr. N. T. Wright Bishop of Durham The approved text of the Anglican Covenant is already serving as a lens through which individual Anglican churches are inevitably and accurately being measured in terms of their character as "Communion churches." Thus, in ways not yet properly noted by all, the text endorsed by the Anglican Consultative Council, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Joint Standing Committee in May 2009 has already raised and to a...
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The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq. 1. We address below issues related to the capacity of CP dioceses to sign the Anglican Covenant. We consider the text of Section 4 of the Ridley Cambridge draft, ACC Resolution 14.11, the unique polity of TEC and the ACC constitution and membership schedule. Although the final wording of Section 4 has not yet been agreed, the principles discussed below, particularly the constitutional integrity of member churches, are fundamental to Anglicanism and not in dispute. Who...
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This paper examines whether the Presiding Bishop is authorized to initiate and conduct recent property litigation and finds no source for such authority in the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. Arguments based on a presumed equivalence of the roles of the Presiding Bishop and Executive Council to those of a corporate CEO and board of directors are found not to be valid. The paper also examines claims that pursuit of litigation is necessitated by fiduciary duty. It concludes that no convincing case has been made that this is so. First, no person is under a fiduciary duty to...
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