Anglican Communion Institute (ACI)

Dear Bishop Doyle,

We thank you for your thoughtful letter and for your obvious concern that under the canons the Bishops of our church be enabled to discharge their pastoral responsibilities. We share your concern for an adequate pastoral response to the behavior of clergy. We nonetheless believe that the three basic points you make in your letter actually indicate points in the new Title IV that serve to weaken rather than strengthen the pastoral care a bishop is called upon to offer his or her clergy.

Dear Archbishop John

Thank you for your communication. Our ACI Board Bishop +Michael Scott-Joynt has also been in helpful contact over the Communion Partners initiative, as he and +NT Wright, +Donald Mtetemela, +Drexel Gomez, and others attended earlier meetings – even meetings including the several bishops (4 out of the 21 in attendance) now moving toward a ‘new province’ idea.

Is this any longer a Church one wants to join?

A Plea to the Leaders of the Episcopal Church.

Is this any longer a Church one wants to join?

A Plea to the Leaders of the Episcopal Church.

TITLE IV REVISIONS

Dear Bishops Bill, Bruce, Jim, John, and Mark,

To the Members of the Covenant Design Group and the Windsor Continuation Group:

I write to you as a concerned member of the Covenant Design Group, as a committed member of the Episcopal Church (USA), and as one whose professional and spiritual life has been and continues to be devoted to the strengthening of our common witness as Anglican Christians. This is a simple plea for us to do our work better in the midst of continuing ecclesial disintegration.

To the Members of the Covenant Design Group and the Windsor Continuation Group:

I write to you as a concerned member of the Covenant Design Group, as a committed member of the Episcopal Church (USA), and as one whose professional and spiritual life has been and continues to be devoted to the strengthening of our common witness as Anglican Christians. This is a simple plea for us to do our work better in the midst of continuing ecclesial disintegration.

DON ARMSTRONG ON TITUS 1:9

4/20/07

Don Armstrong Says:
April 20th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

Not that this is particularly relevant to this thread, but I do want to make clear a couple of matters concerning ACI.

The Anglican Communion Institute has received the news, as is now customary (via the blogs), that the Episcopal Diocese of Texas has proposed a special plan for how it will accommodate same-sex blessings, should these be resolved as appropriate by the General Convention. The details of that plan are not the subject of this statement, and the plan itself can be read at a number of web-sites and links. (Equally, we are not concerned in this context with the status and character of General Convention resolutions in respect of diocesan reception and implementation or constitutionality).

The Episcopal Church and the New Episcopal Church