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Anglican Christianity – For Consideration by the Bishops of the Episcopal Church Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018103921/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/anglican_christianity.htm A Season of Judgment It is impossible to watch the delegation going to represent ECUSA at Nottingham next month without concluding, ‘this is not Anglican Christianity.’ Whatever else it is, the composition of this delegation is a public statement about the character of the Episcopal Church at this moment in time, and it forces those of us who have identified with Anglican...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH U.S.A. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050410203638/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/ANOPENLETTER2.htm Within the next week you, our Bishops, will meet for the purpose of responding to The Windsor Report and the recent statement of the Meeting of the Primates. The Primates, among other things, have called for (1) an expression of regret on the part of ECUSA for the harm done to the Anglican Communion by the recent actions of its House of Bishops and its General Convention; (2) a moratorium on the...
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THE BISHOPS’ COVENANT: AN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050320091209/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/bishopscovenantaci.htm Anglican Communion Institute, March, 2005 The recent ECUSA House of Bishops meeting follows the publication of the Windsor Report (TWR) from the Lambeth Commission, an earlier response by the House of Bishops in January, and finally the February Communiqué from the Primates’ Meeting in Newry. In their ‘covenant statement’ , reproduced below with commentary, the House of Bishops offers their current response to the...
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A Call to Our Primates Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051220041710/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/call_to_our_primates.htm The proliferation of alternative oversight arrangements in the United States (and Canada; and now in South America) indicates that the level of discontent and disarray within the ECUSA and the Communion is high. Some arrangements pre-date the General Convention 2003 developments, most specifically the never regularised ‘Anglican Mission in America’ (AMiA). In addition, and in the light of General Convention 2003, other independent examples...
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OPEN LETTER TO THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS AND THE HOUSE OF DEPUTIES MEETING IN COLUMBUS OHIO FOR THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH U.S.A. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060509204921/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/Open_Letter.html The General Convention of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. meeting in Columbus Ohio in June of 2006 constitutes a watershed in its history and in the history of the Anglican Communion. Will the dioceses that make up ECUSA continue as full members of the Anglican Communion or will the status of some or all of them within that...
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‘ Sooner or Later’ – California Consents and General Convention 2006 A Thought Experiment on the Future of ECUSA Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060627212342/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/TheCaliforniaConsentsDebacle.htm What follows is not an effort at maximally accurate speculation, but is intended as a thought experiment on where ECUSA appears to be, in the light of its various reports and actions over the past months. General Convention 2006 is now but 50 days away. 1. The Diocese of California (CA) elects a ‘Gay/Lesbian’ Bishop; consents process at...
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General Convention, The Windsor Report and ECUSA’s Relationship to the Anglican Communion Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060830132848/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/Genconanalysismk2.html The significance of the General Convention’s response to the Windsor Report should not be in any doubt. The Report itself concluded We have already indicated (paragraphs 134 and 144 ) some ways in which the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Diocese of New Westminster could begin to speak with the Communion in a way which would foster reconciliation….There remains a very...
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Our New Season of Anglican Maturing Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060828165535/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/Our_New_Season.html Amongst conservatives in the United States , two different understandings of Communion and how to maintain it appear to be vying for ascendancy in our present season. One has assumed, and may still assume, that something called ‘orthodoxy’ can be maintained by carving out ecclesial space in a new province. How this may be achieved is conceivably through a variety of means, but one popular avenue is by forging links to primates...
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Initial Observations on General Convention Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060714172546/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/GCresponseRev.html Anglican Communion Institute – June 21, 2006 The Windsor-related resolutions coming out of General Convention today require, as the Archbishop of Canterbury has noted, some time for study before their significance and import can properly be evaluated. Such study, furthermore, must be done in the context of the wider Communion, and not simply from the limited perspective of our individual circumstances. However, a few...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letter to the Faithful, June 27, 2006 Summary of main points and some implications for Communion-minded Episcopalians From the Anglican Communion Institute Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060805180340/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/RW_Response.html Archbishop Rowan Williams recently shared his views regarding the current “crisis” in the Anglican Communion and the way forward he believes we must follow if we are to surmount it. The paper, entitled “The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today: A Reflection for the Bishops...
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