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Bishop Iker – Renunciation of Orders?

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 Posted in News, TEC | Comments Off

From EpiScope Today, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori "accepted the renunciation of the Ordained Ministry of this Church, made in writing on November 24, 2008 by the Right Rev. Jack Leo ... Read more..

Financial Threat over Women Bishops

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Church of England, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Toby Cohen, Church of England Newspaper THE THIRD Province Movement has threatened the cancellation of diocesan quota payments if the House of Bishops introduces women bishops without making greater provisions ... Read more..

Compass Rose Society hears Archbishop of Canterbury review Communion’s work, Lambeth Conference

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Anglican Covenant, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Lambeth Conference | Comments Off

From Episcopal Life Online Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the annual meeting of the Compass Rose Society (CRS) in November that the tensions within the Anglican Communion are not going ... Read more..

Breakaway Anglicans Aim for Less Division with New Province

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, TEC | Comments Off

By Lillian Kwon, The Christian Post FAIRFAX, Va. – As breakaway Anglicans prepare to introduce a draft constitution for their new conservative province in North America on Wednesday, many within the ... Read more..

Bishop lashes City ‘fat cats’

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Apologetics, Church of England | Comments Off

By Michael Brown, Religious Intelligence A Church of England bishop is "at a loss" to understand why some City "fat cats" are getting bonuses when billions of pounds of taxpayers' money ... Read more..

Muslims burn Trinity Church, Bauchi Road, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

Friday, November 28th, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

  The Archbishop of Jos, Rt Rev Ben Kwashi, reports that following peaceful elections whose results have not yet been announced, at 2 a.m. this morning crowds of Muslims burnt Trinity ... Read more..

Fort Worth: Responses to the attempted inhibition of Jack Iker

Monday, November 24th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, News, TEC | Comments Off

From Stand Firm FORT WORTH, Texas – A letter of inhibition and supporting documents were issued Friday, Nov. 21, from the office of Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal ... Read more..

A Christian Inclusivity: A study of Mark 9: 33-41. Rev Paul Perkin

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

Bible Reading at the NEAC 08 Consultation:  November 15 2008 What does a truly Christian inclusivity look like, a biblical Christ-honouring inclusivity? What are its limits? And what is its breadth? ... Read more..

Equipping the Saints – Part V: TEC and litigation

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

In spite of the Primates’ repeated requests to suspend litigation, the national church and several TEC dioceses are involved in litigation against former TEC parishes that have left for other jurisdictions in the ... Read more..

Equipping the Saints – Part III: TEC leaders in their own words

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in News | Comments Off

'‘I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to God except through me.’ The first thing I want you to explore with me is this: I simply refuse to ... Read more..

Fort Worth votes to secede from Episcopal Church

Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, News, TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, Religious Intelligence The Anglo-Catholic movement in America is dead, the Rt Rev Jack Iker said following the secession of the Diocese of Fort Worth from the Episcopal Church ... 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..

Catholic Church has no reason to stop priests from marrying, says leading bishop

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 Posted in Roman Catholicism | No Comments »

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph.co.uk The Rt Rev Malcolm McMahon, Bishop of Nottingham, said there is no doctrinal reason preventing them from having wives. Roman Catholic priests have been required to take a ... Read more..

Bishop of Los Angeles says California voters ‘ignorant’ about homosexuality

Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Homosexuality | No Comments »

By George Conger,  Religious Intelligence The Bishop of Los Angeles has challenged California voters who backed the successful ballot initiative to ban gay marriage to examine their consciences and banish their ignorance ... Read more..

Bishop Graham Cray to be new leader of Fresh Expressions

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

Church of England Newspaper October 31 A NEW Archbishops’ Missioner and leader of Fresh Expressions has been announced following the Rev Steven Croft’s appointment as the Bishop of Sheffield. The Rt ... Read more..

San Joaquin moves against traditionalist clergy, but raises legal question

Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in TEC | No Comments »

By George Conger, Religious Intelligence The loyalist faction of the Diocese of San Joaquin has charged 52 clergymen of the diocese with having “abandoned the communion of the Episcopal Church” and ... Read more..

Virginia Suffragan Bishop to Serve Pittsburgh Reorganizers

Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in News, TEC | No Comments »

By Steve Waring, The Living Church The Rt. Rev. David C. Jones, Bishop Suffragan of Virginia, has accepted an invitation to serve as a “consulting bishop” for the Episcopal Diocese of ... Read more..

Traditionalists warn church of evangelism threat

Monday, October 20th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Michael Brown, Religious Intelligence An extraordinary claim that if traditionalist Anglicans are "destroyed", the Gospel in England "will suffer" because no one else is evangelising, was issued by the Bishop ... Read more..

Episcopal Diocese charges clergy with abandonment of communion

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, TEC | No Comments »

Hat Tip: Stand Firm The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin today determined that sixteen deacons and thirty-six priests had abandoned the communion of the Episcopal Church. Findings ... Read more..

Indian bishops appeal for aid following Orissa violence

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

By George Conger,  Religious Intelligence The Church of North India’s bishop in Orissa state has sent out an urgent appeal for assistance following weeks of communal violence that have left dozens ... Read more..