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Proposed North American Province Rocks Anglican Boat

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Church in North America | Comments Off

By Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion & Democracy “While disaffected groups have split from the Episcopal Church in the past, the fact that many of these groups are now unifying is unprecedented.” — ... Read more..

ALTERNATIVE ANGLICAN PROVINCE FORMED IN NORTH AMERICA

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Church in North America | Comments Off

By David Virtue, VOL An historic moment in the life of North American Anglicanism took place this week. In Wheaton Illinois, the home of American evangelicalism, a new North American Anglican Province ... Read more..

Archbishops hold Canterbury summit over threat of schism

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Anglican archbishops will hold an emergency meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury today to discuss the unfolding schism in the Church in America. The meeting between Dr Rowan ... Read more..

New American Province looms

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

Church of England Newspaper  December 5 By George Conger A THIRD Province movement in North America will be the topic of a special meeting at Lambeth Palace today (Dec 5). The Archbishop of ... Read more..

Anglican row spills into US as Episcopal church splits over homosexual priests

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, TEC | Comments Off

By Tom Leonard, Telegraph.co.uk Conservatives and liberals within the Anglican church in North America are to split following a five-year battle over the ordination of homosexuals.    The formation of a new traditionalist ... Read more..

Summit will not debate Gafcon

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Global Anglican Future Conference | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN Members of the Joint Standing Committee [JSC] of the Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council are scheduled to meet this week, Nov 25-27 at St. Andrew’s House ... Read more..

The suspension of ++ Venables and his province: Being decided upon now

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, Church of England, News, TEC, suffering church | Comments Off

November 25, 2008  Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent Senior bishops are now considering suspending the Latin American Province A conservative province in the Anglican church faces “punishment” this week for offering a safe ... Read more..

Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Elaine Sciolino, New York Times LONDON — The woman in black wanted an Islamic divorce. She told the religious judge that her husband hit her, cursed her and wanted her ... Read more..

Anglican Church lacks leadership, say bishops

Saturday, November 15th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

The Archbishop of Canterbury has failed to provide leadership in the Anglican Church's war over homosexuality, according to two of his bishops. By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph   The Bishop of Rochester, Rt ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury and Chief Rabbi hold ceremony at Nazi death camp

Saturday, November 15th, 2008 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph.co.uk The Archbishop of Canterbury called Auschwitz-Birkenau an "image of hell" as he made his first visit to the Nazi death camp. Dr Rowan Williams said it was vital ... Read more..

Concerns expressed over Indaba group manipulation

Saturday, November 15th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, News | Comments Off

By George Conger The Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East has welcomed Dr. Rowan Williams’ decision to hold the 2009 Primates Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, telling The Church of England ... Read more..

Rowan’s Rule reveals the complex character of the Archbishop of Canterbury

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Rowan's Rule: Rupert Shortt,  Hodder & Stoughton £18, Times Books It is a rare and welcome privilege to be given insights into the humanity of a figure in ... Read more..

Lambeth 2008 – a retrospect

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Lambeth Conference, News | No Comments »

Chris Sugden in North American Anglican Vol 1. No.1 November 2008.  www.39articles.com All that said, the Conference had an unforgettable conclusion.. As the final service ended in Canterbury Cathedral, the names of ... Read more..

Proposals for new North American Province in a matter of weeks

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Common Cause, News | No Comments »

"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 ... Read more..

Rowan Williams haunted by suicide of troubled Oxford student who fell for him

Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

David Brown and Ruth Gledhill   The Times The suicide of a fellow student at Oxford 33 years ago has been revealed as one of the defining moments in the life ... Read more..

Phil Woolas contradicts government policy over position of Church of England

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Church of England | No Comments »

By Richard Ford and Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Phil Woolas, the new Immigration Minister, was again at the centre of controversy last night after contradicting official government policy over the position of ... Read more..

Fresh Expressions leader to be Bishop of Sheffield

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

  No.10 Downing Street announces today the appointment of The Revd Dr Steven John Lindsey Croft, currently Archbishops' Missioner and Leader of the Fresh Expressions team, as the next Bishop of ... Read more..

Archbishop to announce outcome of Common Word dialogue

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Islam | No Comments »

From Christian Today The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will today announce the outcome of two days of intensive talks between Muslims and Christians at Cambridge University. The closed-door discussions are ... Read more..

Church ‘to work hard’ on admissions

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Children/Family, Church of England | No Comments »

From The Press Association The Church of England said it had "work" to do demonstrating fair admissions procedures operated in its popular schools as it published results from a new survey. The ... Read more..

Muslims and Christians do not fully understand each other says Rowan Williams

Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Faith, Islam | No Comments »

By Ruth Gledhill, TimesonLine The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, admitted yesterday that the Christian and Muslim faiths are so fundamentally different that both sides are still unable to understand ... Read more..