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From Virtueonline (From Common Cause)

Leaders representing Canadian and US orthodox Anglican jurisdictions approved applications for membership of 28 dioceses and dioceses-in-formation and finalized plans for launching the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Twelve Anglican organizations are uniting to form the ACNA.

The ACNA Leadership Council, in addition to accepting these dioceses as constituent members, finalized a draft constitution and a comprehensive set of canons (Church bylaws) for ratification by the provincial assembly. A list of the new dioceses, the constitution and the canons will soon be available at www.united-anglicans.org.

"It is a great encouragement to see the fruit of many years’ work," said the Right Reverend Robert Duncan, archbishop-elect of the Anglican Church in North America and Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. "Today 23 dioceses and five dioceses-in-formation joined together to reconstitute an orthodox, Biblical, missionary and united Church in North America."

The Anglican Church in North America holds its inaugural provincial assembly 22-25 June 2009 in St Vincent’s Cathedral, Bedford, Texas. Delegates to this inaugural provincial assembly will be selected by the 28 constituent dioceses and dioceses-in-formation according to an agreed apportionment (contained in Title I, Canon 5).

In addition to the official delegates, a number of other Anglican and ecumenical Christian leaders are expected to be present at the provincial assembly, demonstrating the breadth of recognition and fellowship accorded ACNA. Already, three prominent Ecumenical leaders are confirmed speakers at the ACNA provincial assembly:

* Pastor Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church,
* His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, the Archbishop of Wash ington and New York and the Metropolitan of All America and Canada for the Orthodox Church in America, and
* the Rev Todd Hunter, Director of West Coast Church Planting for the Anglican Mission in the Americas.

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From Common Cause

3rd April, A.D. 2009
Feast of St. Richard

TO ALL THE CLERGY AND PEOPLE:
Beloved in the Lord,

With this letter comes the publication of the complete set of canons proposed by the Governance Task Force to the Common Cause Leadership Council. The Leadership Council is scheduled to meet and to act as the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America on April 24th and 25th, 2009.

The draft canons attempt to order the life of the Church, consistent with the Provisional Constitution (now proposed for slight amendment) and nine initial canons adopted by the Council in December of 2008. Several principles should be obvious:

1. confessional unity, expressed in matters of Faith and Order;
2. subsidiarity, where what may be wisely left to the local level (both diocesan and congregational) is left to the local level, including property ownership;
3. missionary focus, especially in structures, roles and representation;
4. flexibility, recognizing the diversity of Godly approaches common among the partners coming into union;
5. disciplinary reform, including address of concerns for Holy Matrimony and Holy Orders, as well as provision of a provincial tribunal.
6. collegial accountability, especially in matters relating to bishops.

The charge to the Governance Task Force was to provide a strong skeleton around which a living Church could be built.

This letter is being sent to the whole Church as an introduction to the basic work that has been done, and in order to outline the process of discussion, adoption and ratification now ahead of us. Simply put, the whole Church discusses, the Provincial Council adopts, and the Provincial Assembly ratifies or sends back.

The principal time for suggesting changes to the draft canons is between now and the April meeting of Council. Comments and suggestions should be given to the jurisdictional representatives who compose the Common Cause Leadership Council by April 24th or sent to the chair of the Governance Task Force, Mr. Hugo Blankingship (ahblankingshipjr@theacna.org), no later than noon on Monday, April 20th. The Council can then consider these matters in deciding the form in which the canons are adopted. Once adopted, another period of publication and comment follows, but this time the advice from the local Church to its representatives to the Provincial Assembly (June 22-25) would take the form of recommendations on whether to ratify or reject individual canons or sections of canons. If, however, substantial concerns are identified in this latter period, it should be noted that it would be possible for the Council to meet, adopt and circulate further revised canons prior to the Provincial Assembly.

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From Church of Nigeria website

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We are especially concerned about those who are using large sums of money to lure our youth to see homosexuality and lesbianism as normative. We must consistently and faithfully teach about God’s commands on this ungodly practice and help those with such orientation to seek deliverance and pastoral counsel. 

It was also our great delight to welcome to our meeting, the Rt. Rev Bob Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh in the USA, and Moderator of the Common Cause Partnership which is a fellowship of about 11 Anglican groups that are determined to maintain the Biblical and historic convictions of our faith, including CANA (also represented at this meeting by our own Bishop Martyn Minns). We have declared ourselves to be in full communion with the emerging province of the Anglican Church of North America, praying that they will remain solidly rooted in the foundations of our faith.

We have expressed our grave concerns over the relentless aggression against Christians in the North of Nigeria and have again drawn the attention of our governments to this unhappy scenario. We are calling for a national conference of all stakeholders to deal with the issue of religious intolerance and guarantee a peaceful and just future for our beloved country. We especially call on our members in the National Assembly to keep alert to this threat to our corporate existence. Most of all we call on our churches to pray earnestly about the future of our nation.

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By Steve Waring, The Living Church

The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) expects to receive at least five, and perhaps as many as eight, applications for official recognition as a diocese when it meets for its first provincial assembly in June.

A letter sent in January by the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan to members of the Common Cause Partnership encouraged the formation of dioceses.

“Consistent with all Anglican practice, congregations are a part of an Anglican province because they are part of a diocese, which in turn, is part of a group of dioceses banded together as a national (or international) church,” Bishop Duncan wrote. “This principle is critical to understanding the provisional constitution of the [ACNA], and to the steps we all need to take as we move toward our first provincial assembly.”

Bishop Duncan is Archbishop-designate of the ACNA and Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh that is now under the auspices of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone. The Rev. J. Philip Ashey, chief operating officer and chaplain for the American Anglican Council, told The Living Church that Pittsburgh is one of the five applications for recognition as an ACNA diocese that have already been received. The deadline for applications is April 15.

Earlier this month, the Rt. Rev. John H. Chapman, Bishop of Ottawa in the Anglican Church of Canada, said he would authorize a congregation under his oversight to begin performing same-sex blessings in part because “while our church struggles to honor the call for gracious restraint in blessing same-sex unions, those who are proponents of cross-border interventions have and continue to show no restraint.”

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From Common Cause

Editor’s Note: Bishop Robert Duncan has written to the Common Cause Partnership outlining details of the first Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America. The meeting will be held June 22 – 25 at St. Vincent’s Cathedral in Bedford, Texas.

TO ALL COMMON CAUSE PARTNERS:
Beloved in the Lord,

The purpose of this letter is to give formal notice of the Provincial Assembly to be gathered from noon, Monday, June 22nd, to noon, Thursday, June 25th, 2009. This meeting is being convened under the Provisional Constitution of the Anglican Church in North America. The place of gathering is St. Vincent’s Cathedral, Bedford, Texas.

The agenda of the Provincial Assembly will include:

1) Worship;

2) Presentations in support of the mission of the Province;

3) Scripture teaching;

4) Addresses by international leaders;

5) Consideration for ratification of the (Provisional) Constitution;

6) Consideration for ratification of a Code of Canons;

7) Reports from committees and task forces.

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From ACI

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. We cannot know how the efforts associated with Common Cause will turn out, including the idea of building a ‘new province,’ but we note with interest that recent news indicates the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested ways for this endeavor to move forward in relationship to the Instruments of Communion. Together with ACI, we have been concerned that failure to attend to the integrity of Dioceses which see women’s ordination a matter still in reception, is creating unnecessary stress and strain. We ask that the wider Anglican Communion offer guidance here, as a variegated polity elsewhere appears to be both possible and charitably negotiated.

We do not know how the proposal for a new province will be received nor are we entirely clear what its proponents are proposing; that is probably unavoidable given the hardships all around. We understand that many see the situation as demanding this option. For our part, we accept the promise of those associated with this movement that they will honor our own commitments. Communion Partners will pray for the Common Cause proponents and will assume that promise of cooperation entails a charitable acceptance that another way forward is to be honored and that we can move forward on parallel tracks and not ‘recruit’ from each others’ daily purpose, honoring the jurisdictional integrities of respective bishops. God will be in charge of the next season, as He has always been.

When the Primates meet in February we anticipate that our separate ways of moving forward will be acknowledged and honored. We pledge our prayers for all involved and ask God’s blessing on all of us in a very difficult time. With gratitude for his grace and mercy, again this 2009 Epiphany we remain, yours in Christ, on behalf of Communion Partners,

(The Rt Revd) Bruce MacPherson, Communion Partner Bishops
(The Revd Dr) Russell Levenson, Communion Partner Rectors
(The Revd Canon Professor) Christopher Seitz, Communion Partners and ACI

From Church Times (H/T Kendall Harmon)

“The healing of the Anglican Com­munion began today,” said Cynthia Brust, a lay leader of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, at the news conference last week, after the adoption of the provisional constitution of the Anglican Church in North America. The next day, in a lead article in The New York Times, a senior professor of religion at Duke University called the coming together of so many Anglican fragments “un­precedented”.

It is fair to ask, of course, just how this begins healing the Communion. Some of our friends continue to hope that what has been dubbed the Cov­enant process will accomplish that. They have publicly taken us to task for our decision to form the Anglican Church in North America.

We acted — not because we reject the Covenant process, or reject efforts on its behalf, no matter how unlikely their success may seem — to begin dealing constructively with the incredibly complex reality on the ground here in North America. We are uniting 700 Anglican churches that exist today, and more are joining almost every week.

Many of these are congregations or portions of congregations that left the Episcopal Church in the United States, or the Anglican Church in Canada. Covenant or no covenant, it is simply no longer realistic to expect those congregations to rejoin provinces that have sued them and defrocked their deacons, priests, and bishops for standing up for what mainstream Anglicans believe.

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From AAC

There is very positive news coming out of Chicago this week: the launch of the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) as an outgrowth of the Common Cause Partnership, which will keep everyone watching for further developments. Numerous planned meetings of Primates in smaller and larger groups, sometimes with the Archbishop of Canterbury and sometimes not, and together with laity in Jamaica as the Anglican Consultative Council, will be occurring over the next six months, guaranteeing that the issues brought forward by GAFCON, the formation of the GAFCON Primates’ Council, and now ACNA, will stay in the center of attention for some time to come.

The launch of the new Anglican Church in North America, an outgrowth of the Common Cause Partners Federation, has been positioned such that there is reasonable hope that Primates of the Anglican Communion, perhaps beginning with the GAFCON Primates’ Council, might begin to recognize the entity as a province in the Anglican Communion. The Jerusalem gathering of GAFCON gave a call for such a new province to be formed, and the approval of a provisional Constitution and Canons of the ACNA is seen as the beginning of this process.

The formation of ACNA, which is a coming together of Anglican judicatories under an Archbishop, leaves two of its sponsoring organizations in a here-and-there position. Both Forward In Faith-North America (FIFNA) and the American Anglican Council (AAC) are advocacy and affinity organizations that overlay actual ecclesial judicatories, and although both are presently headed by bishops, the bishops and the members are all embedded in separate actual church structures.

Since its inception in 1996, the AAC has worked for reform and renewal in the church. At first it was limited to reform and renewal in the Episcopal Church (previously referred to as ECUSA, and now more recently as TEC), but considering the theological troubles of the last five or so years, the AAC has broadened its scope to the entire Anglican Communion, since these are finally Anglican Communion issues.

Presently a fair number of our AAC Board of Trustees, parish affiliates and general membership of individual lay and clergy are in still in TEC, and some will most likely remain in TEC for the foreseeable future. The ministry and work of the AAC is built to encompass their needs as well as those who are not a part of TEC. Recently the AAC created a specific "Episcopal Church Desk" to handle the issues that were specific to TEC, provide a direct channel for questions and issues to be raised, and to assist with planning for the AAC to have a presence at TEC’s General Convention in Anaheim this summer. Additionally the Vice President of the AAC, the Rt. Rev. Peter Beckwith, Diocesan Bishop of Springfield, will be the Bishop-liaison, having chaplaincy to the "Episcopal Desk."

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Visit the Common Cause Partnership website

By Stephen Sizer

It is time for plain speaking: The Episcopal Church in the USA and the Anglican Church of Canada have prostituted the Christian faith and authorized that which God has anathematized.

The hour of reckoning has arrived. How the Archbishop of Canterbury responds will determine much. Early signs are not good. Whether the views of the Archbishop or his staff, the official Lambeth statement about the meeting tomorrow between six archbishops is terse if not defiant.

Ruth Gledhill writes, TimesonLine "Today Lambeth Palace, although not the Archbishop of Canterbury in person, has at last made a comment on this, and the comment at first glance seems to make it clear that this new province will not receive formal recognition any time soon. In fact it appears pretty brutal in its dismissal of the Common Cause initiative. Hong Kong, don’t forget, was recognised extremely fast once its three dioceses decided to seek independence.

Conservative Anglicans create rival church:  Top leader Duncan expects to see Episcopal Church ‘displaced.’

Timothy C. Morgan in Wheaton, Illinois | 12/04/2008 Christianity Today

In a history-making gesture, conservative evangelical Anglicans, deeply alienated by the decline of the U.S. denomination, sounded a shofar to herald the creation of the Anglican Church of North America.

On a snowy Wednesday evening, about 1,000 worshipers, mostly from the U.S. and Canada, gathered in Wheaton, Illinois, for a worship service to celebrate the creation of the new entity, which comprises 656 congregations, 800 clergy, 30 bishops, and 100,000 people in regular worship. They represent the evangelical, charismatic, and Anglo-Catholic traditions within Anglicanism.

During a pre-service press conference, Bob Duncan, the former Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh and now archbishop-designate for the new church, told news media that he expects the Episcopal Church (TEC) to continue its decline and that in time, the new province will come to replace it.

He said, "The Lord is displacing the Episcopal Church."

This year, TEC leaders have seen the decades-long downward spiral continue in both attendance and finances. By some estimates, attendance and membership are declining by 1,000 people per week. Many dioceses are cutting budgets and staff, and drawing down endowment funds to maintain operations. The denomination has about two million members. It is spending millions of dollars on court actions to prevent individual churches and dioceses from pulling out.  Read here:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/decemberweb-only/149-43.0.html

From Episcopal Life Online

[Episcopal News Service] A spokesperson for Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has responded to the Common Cause Partnership’s December 3 release of a provisional constitution and canons that outline the formation of what they are calling a new Anglican province in North America.

"There are clear guidelines set out in the Anglican Consultative Council Reports, notably ACC 10 in 1996 (resolution 12), detailing the steps necessary for the amendments of existing provincial constitutions and the creation of new provinces," the spokesperson said. "Once begun, any of these processes will take years to complete. In relation to the recent announcement from the meeting of the Common Cause Partnership in Chicago, the process has not yet begun."

The ACC10 resolution is available here.

Full ENS coverage will follow.

From Virtueonline

BREAKING NEWS…..

WHEATON, IL: Constitution Approved for New Province
Christ Awakening Event draws 70 Anglican leaders from multiple jurisdictions to explore Mission

By David W. Virtue in Wheaton, Illinois
www.virtueonline.org
12/3/2008

Virtueonline has learned that a Constitution has been approved of by the Common Cause Council with no abstentions to establish a new North American Anglican Province. Canons for a new province are being voted on and should receive approval shortly.

A Christ Awakening event is being held here on the campus of Wheaton College prior to the formal announcement of a new Anglican Province later tonight. The event has drawn some 70 Anglicans from multiple jurisdictions who have come together to offer a vision of mission. To date there have been four Christ Awakening events, in Chicago, Akron, Vancouver and New England. There purpose is to raise Jesus up, said the Rev. Doc Loomis.

More news as it becomes available… .

From ACL Sydney

From the Anglican Network of Canada:

“The Common Cause Partnership bishops (including ANiC’s Bishop Don Harvey) met Monday and today near Chicago. Today and tomorrow the full Common Cause Council… meets to finalize a draft constitution for a new North American Church which will be officially launched on Wednesday evening at a celebration service.

AnglicanTV plans to live stream the Common Cause celebration service from Wheaton, Illinois on Wednesday (Dec 3) at 7:30pm Central Standard Time [Noon Thursday Sydney time].  Earlier in the day, AnglicanTV will also live stream a news conference – at 5:30pm CST [10:00am Thursday Sydney time] – at which the constitution of the new Anglican Church in North America will be released.”

Other details from Anglican TV.

By Robert S Munday (Hat Tip: Kendall Harmon)

By Robin G Jordan for Virtueonline

The news of the unveiling of the constitution of the new Anglican Church in North America the first week in December has generated a great deal of excitement and a lot of speculation on the Internet. From different sources I have gleaned two conflicting accounts of what is going to happen in Wheaton, Illinois, at the Common Cause Partnership Council meeting on December 3.

The first is that the draft constitution for the new province will be made public after the CCP Council has received it. It will remain a draft for up to a year until it is ratified, during which time public comment will be invited.

The second is that if the CCP Council approves the draft constitution, it will no longer be a draft constitution. It will be the constitution for the new province. It then will be sent to each Common Cause Partner to ratify. They can ratify it and become a constituent judicatory in the new Anglican Church in North America or they can decline to ratify it in which case they will not be included the new province. Both accounts come from within the Common Cause Partnership, from individuals in a position to know what is going on.

While it may be rather late to be proposing a model for the new province, one model the Common Cause Partnership Council might want to consider for the new province is a modification of the Australian model for an Anglican province. [1] In this modification of the Australian model the constituent judicatories of the new Anglican Church in North America would be non-geographical. They would be based primarily upon theological affinity. In practice this means that a particular region or locality of the United States or Canada might have two or more judicatories of the new province represented in it-one confessional, one Anglo-Catholic, and so on. Existing and newly formed or admitted judicatories would be free to plant new churches and to organize new networks of churches throughout the entire territory of the new province.

While the new province might initially consist of the four breakaway Episcopal dioceses and Common Cause Partners, existing and newly formed churches in the new province would be free to network together and to form new judicatories in the province. Existing networks of churches and newly formed networks of churches outside the province seeking admission to the new province would not be required to amalgamate or merge with an existing judicatory in order to gain admission to the province. They would be admitted as a new judicatory if they so desired. Clergy and congregations would be free to transfer from one judicatory to another without any loss of pension contributions or property.

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By George Conger, CEN

The leaders of the Common Cause Partnership (CCP) are set to endorse a draft constitution to govern the loose coalition of breakaway dioceses, congregations and Anglican jurisdictions in the United States.

In a statement released on Nov 17 by the American Anglican Council on behalf of the CCP, AAC spokesman Robert Lundy said the “the draft constitution of an emerging Anglican Church in North America” will be released on Dec 3. The leaders of the CCP will “formally subscribe to the Jerusalem Declaration of the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) and affirm the Gafcon Statement on the Global Anglican Future.”

The Dec 3 ceremony will not launch a new province, CCP moderator Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh said, but will be an “an important concrete step toward the goal of a biblical, missionary and united Anglican Church in North America.”

Speaking in Boston on Nov 15 in a sermon broadcast by Anglican.TV, Bishop Duncan said the CCP leaders will “receive and god-willing commend a draft constitution” for the “Anglican Church in North America.”

We want to “bring Jerusalem to American” and “claim our place as members of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans,” he said.

A final draft of the CCP constitution was completed on Oct 31 following meetings in Northern Virginia. The CCP Council is scheduled to meet Dec 1-3 in Wheaton, Illinois at the Billy Graham Center and is expected to ratify the constitution and governing documents of the coalition of American and Canadian Anglican churches that draw over 100,000 worshippers every Sunday. Statistics released by the national offices of the Episcopal Church state that in 2007, the average Sunday attendance for the Episcopal Church was 727,822.

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By Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion & Democracy

Despite the flurry of organizational activity among Anglican conservatives following the controversial 2003 ordination of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, some groups had expressed pessimism saying that a new North American Anglican Province was many years away. If forming a unified front was possible at all. As little as a decade ago, there were few Anglican congregations in the United States that were formally recognized by any other Anglican branches around the world.

In a recent weekly newsletter from the American Anglican Council, CANA Bishop David Anderson said:

“We feel with some real certainty that [a new North American province] will be a reality before Easter of 2009, and perhaps much sooner. We are actively at work with the other Common Cause Partner (CCP) church judicatories to develop the infrastructure and financing for the new province, protocols for joint recognition of orders, and inter-province governance.”

Similarly, Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh recently told the Beaver County Times in western Pennsylvania that the province could receive recognition as early as December.

The Rev. John Spencer, press officer for the recently separated Quincy Diocese, told the Quad-City Times that the timeline for the new organizational structure would involve some kind of provisional recognition in late December or early January. Spencer said formal approval of the new North American Anglican Province may come by early February, after the worldwide Anglican Primates’ council meets in Egypt.

Most recently, the CCP groups have announced a December 3 unveiling of a draft constitution for the proposed new province.

Two things have significantly changed leading to the likely acceleration of this process:

First, the CCP, a loose federation of eight conservative Anglican bodies, organized a college of bishops in September of 2007. Composed of the Anglican Communion Network (ACN), which enveloped a large faction of conservative parishes and dioceses within the Episcopal Church, the partnership also brought in the Rwandan-sponsored Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) and the Nigerian-sponsored Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA).

Perhaps most interestingly, the partnership has simultaneously attracted others including low-church bodies such as the Reformed Episcopal Church along with Anglo-Catholic high church bodies like Forward in Faith North America. Each of these organizations has vastly different histories. The Reformed Episcopal Church split from the Episcopal Church in 1873, whereas some groups departed the Episcopal Church quite recently. They have seen very different growth patterns: the AMiA has grown through aggressive church planting, while CANA’s growth comes from the recruitment of recently departed Episcopal parishes.

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"The churches in North America don’t have any option. They have been systematically kicked out, persecuted in their own church … while the Archbishop of Canterbury has done nothing to support our cause. In order to remain part of the global fellowship, we have to form a province to be more structurally connected. The only other choice is to shrink or die. It’s either die or get on with it."
Cheryl Chang, Chancellor of the Anglican Network in Canada

Dissident Anglican churches in Canada and the United States say they will form a new conservative jurisdiction in the next year, adding that the Archbishop of Canterbury has lost the moral authority to have any real say in blocking the radical move.

Parishes that have left their national churches over the issue of same-sex marriage and a general trend toward liberalism want to create a single "province" that would report to a conservative North American bishop who shares their values.

"I believe the next year will be critical," said Rev. Peter Frank, a spokesman for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, which voted last month to leave the U.S. Episcopal Church. "The first proposals will be formed in the very near term, in a matter of weeks, frankly."

Mr. Frank said that any opposition from Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will be moot because the spiritual head of Anglicanism has lost his moral authority. "Frankly, [he] is not in a position to do anything. At this point, the leaders of a majority of the world’s Anglicans are going to recognize us when we [separate]."

But he added it would make it more difficult if Mr. Williams did not give his blessing.

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 I’ve learned this afternoon that the leadership of the Common Cause Partnership is meeting this week to discuss the mission and vision of a new orthodox Anglican structure in North America.

It is clear that the partnership is moving forward despite repeated attempts by the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada leadership to squelch Common Cause as well as other orthodox Anglican congregations who in good conscience cannot follow the direction promoted by the current leadership.

In August the GAFCON Primates Council indicated in their official statement that they "expected that priority will be given to the possible formation of a province in North American for the Common Cause Partnership."

Please keep these leaders in prayer as they meet at the Church of the Epiphany in Herndon, Virginia.

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