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You may have noticeed a piece produced on behalf of Inclusive Church that emerged onto the web a few days ago, arguing that current guidelines would permit a service of thanksgiving, including a blessing, for a civil partnership. You can read the piece here.
The thrust of the argument is that the current service for a [...]
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Here’s the letter the Bishop of London sent to all London clergy, readers, church wardens and church wardens’ dachshunds today.
18th June 2008
Dear Friends,
Many of you will have seen the publicity over the weekend around the service which was held at St Bartholomew the Great on May 31st. I attach a letter I have [...]
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A fascinating letter from Bishop James Adams of Western Kansas has just been published on Stand Firm. In it he argues that recent actions of the leadership of TEC demonstrate that they have rejected the ecclesiology of the Anglican Communion and that they are, de facto, no longer Anglicans.
Why some may say that the Episcopal [...]
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It will probably prompt a flurry of claims about my misogyny, but I am delighted that the Welsh Synod failed to pass a vote on allowing Women Bishops. The vote in favour in the House of Clergy was only 58.7%, short of the two-thirds required for the motion to pass.
I am in agreement with Ft [...]
Here at “An Exercise”, I’m not a big fan of the BNP. Not only are their politics (and some of their politicians) racist, they’re not even true patriots, given that some of them don’t even know how to fly the Union Flag properly. And while in the past I’ve supported the right of Nick Griffin [...]
… in theory if not in practice.
Yesterday afternoon, the Synod of the Diocese of Pittsburgh voted to change it’s constitution so that its loyalties lay not with the national American Church but with the wider Anglican Communion. This is essentially the beginning of the schism in the USA.
Clergy and deputies to the Episcopal Diocese of [...]
Who’d have thought that a simple off-the-cuff remark would cause so many problems?
Remember yesterday’s report of a same-sex blessing in Beverly Hills in the Diocese of Los Angeles? Well Bishop Bruno was quick to deny that same-sex blessings took place under his watch.
Apart from of course this one, this one, this one, this [...]
I hesitated before typing that title, as I wanted to correctly describe the situation recently in Chelmsford. The Bishop, John Gladwin, refused to ordain Richard Wood as a deacon because Richard Wood refused to take communion with him afterwards (and in the same service). Because Mr Wood wouldn’t take communion he was essentially “sent home” [...]
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The man from feig-city just got priested…
Last wednesday I headed off on my ordination retreat.
We went to Glenfall House - the diocesan retreat centre in the countryside outside Cheltenham. It was an amzing setting for spending time thinking, reading, praying and contemplating what was about to happen to me and also for reflecting hard on [...]
This just dropped into my inbox:
Note to media: The AAC is releasing the following press release in response to numerous inquiries received over the past several weeks.
The Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, President and CEO of the American Anglican Council, recently announced that he has transferred his canonical residency from [...]
Do you remember at school when a fight started in the playground and everybody gathered round? Here’s the Anglican version of that.
On the 17th of December, the Revd David Miller of St John’s Church, Petaluma, CA, informed his Bishop that he wanted to (as the canonical law allows) be transferred to the Diocese of Argentina [...]
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Who saw this piece in the Sunday Times this weekend?
THE Church of England is facing a new rift over homosexual clergy with the disclosure that more than 50 gay or lesbian priests have “married” in civil partnership ceremonies.
Traditionalists and evangelicals opposed to gay clerics said this weekend they would force open debate of the issue [...]
Continue reading about General Synod, Civil Partnerships and a possible way out…
Christmas Eve in the morning, it’s not even 7:30am and I’m off to a neighbouring parish to do an 8am Holy Communion (BCP).
Question - Who first had the idea of 8am Communion services? Were they taken out and shot? If not why not? Did they not have wives and warm beds?
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