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The Eastern Congo and the Failure of Christian Witness

Briefly Newsworthy When Laurent Nkunda was captured leaving the eastern Congo on January 22, 2009, a tentative sense of relief was felt by many in and around the area.  Nkunda has been the leader of a "rebel" army that has, since 2004 at least, roamed the north-eastern areas of Congo, killing, raping, and pillaging the populace in the name of defending Tutsi Congolese from the attacks of Hutu extremists who had infiltrated the area after their expulsion from Rwanda in the mid-1990's.  Most recently, his army staged an offensive that seemed bent on overcoming areas protected by t

Common Cause and a New Province

On behalf of the Advisory Committee of the Communion Partner Rectors, and on behalf of our Bishops and Primatial colleagues, we wish to acknowledge the remarks recently published from Bishop Iker and Bishop Duncan at the Charleston conference hosted by 'Mere Anglicanism.' They speak of wanting the Communion Partners and Common Cause to support one another. For our part we will continue to pray for solid progress at the level of Covenant Design Committee work and for the Instruments of Communion, especially the Primates Meeting shortly to commence.

An Open letter to the Covenant Design Group

January 11th, 2009 The Baptism of Our Lord 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. What motivates this plea at this time?  On the one hand, no more than the general evidence of on

The ACNA Constitution: In Line with the Covenant?

Work in formulating and adopting an Anglican Covenant is proceeding, and with renewed focus.  I judge this to be the case despite some vocal claims that the project is both pointless and perverse.  Most of these limited and negative claims have come from Western Anglicans intent on maintaining their local autonomy in terms of non-accountability to other Anglican churches and the Communion at large;  and among these voices, not surprisingly, is a preponderance of Americans.  But there have also been conservative voices, associated with the primarily non-Western group known as GAFCON (Global Ang
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