Open Letter to the Lambeth Bishops
To the Bishops gathering for the Lambeth Conference:
I write to you personally and openly. I hope that at least some of you will take my words to heart, not because they are mine (which, on their own, would not count for much), but because they represent the mind, I believe, of many in the Communion who are not as vocal in the councils and organs of communication within our church as some.
If the work of the Lambeth Conference is in fact to strengthen rather than weaken the Communion in the days and years to come, we are firmly convinced that the bishops there assembled must find ways to address in a constructive manner several key issues.
A short primer in defense of an Anglican Covenant
The Society for the Propagation of Reformed Evangelical Anglican Doctrine (SPREAD) recently issued an appeal that the Anglican Communion be split. In particular, the appeal, entitled "Counterfeit Communion and the Truth that Sets Us Free", has urged that all those committed to the "Anglican Faith" which is "defined by the Church of England's Articles of Religion, 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the 1662 Ordinal" , "separate from" the Archbishop of Canterbury and form a new and properly orthodox Anglican Communion. This "urgent call to action", the appeal says, will be presented to the ass
Sermon preached by the Very Rev. Dr. George Sumner, Principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto on May 30, 2008, at the Tyndale University College Conference on "The Holy Trinity and Scripture"
A sermon preached by the Very Rev. Dr. George Sumner, Principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto, on April 22, 2008, St. Margaret's Anglican Church, Winnipeg, on the occasion of a conference on "The Nuptial Mystery"
The American Episcopal Church has since its inception understood itself to be an integral part of a much broader Anglican reality. Unlike the Methodist Church, for example, it chose not to declare ecclesial independence in the American context, but carefully referred and deferred to the Church of England and to Anglicanism in the wider context of the British Isles.
COMMUNION PARTNERS
In the context of discussions about the Episcopal Visitors concept announced by the Presiding Bishop at the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans, we the undersigned have considered a need to maintain and strengthen
