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Constitutional Changes [...]
KJS has moved to depose Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh, and in doing so has swept aside the Canons of the Church:
Here’s what KJS has decided that the rules mean:
At this meeting there may be raised the question whether, under Canon IV.9, the House may proceed to grant or withhold its consent to Bishop Duncan’s deposition [...]
Continue reading about The Episcopal Church becomes a Dictatorship
Picture the scene. You’re a leading (at least you think you are) Christian church in the USA, preparing for your three yearly convention. You want a logo that’s going to communicate the core elements of what your faith in Jesus is all about, a logo that will be easy to understand and accessible to non-Christians [...]
The Clone thinks I’m wrong to give it one last go:
These are people who want to be called Anglicans but reject the doctrine of the Prayer Book and the Articles. These are people who want to be called Christians but reject orthodoxy and the authority of Scripture. We are better off without them.
The difference with [...]
Continue reading about Will we even get as far as a Moratorium?
Alan Jacobs has written a helpful critique of one of the points I made below.
I have a number of qualms about the validity of Ould’s reading of the Councils’ “principle of diocesan integrity.” First of all, his reading would have required Christians under the authority of Arian or Donatist leaders to remain under that authority [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about The Americans have jettisoned Anglicanism
A letter to the leaders of GAFCON has been published by Changing Attitude and picked up by Simon Sarmiento (he of the Society of Archbishop Justus that controls the anglican.org domain) at Thinking Anglicans which attempts to smear GAFCON with homophobic violence. On closer inspection however the letter seems to be the same kind of [...]
Simon Sarmiento kindly replied to my email about the redirection of the sanjoaquin.anglican.org subdomain. Here’s what he had to say (with emphasis added).
We made the change after receiving a specific request to do so from the Chancellor of the Presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church.
I notice on your website, though not in your email [...]
Continue reading about Society of Archbishop Justus Responds
Just in from the Virtue website:
The Episcopal Church has engaged in a cyber war resulting in the disappearance of the website of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. Seekers are redirected to the diocesan website of the reconstituted TEC Diocese of San Joaquin.
The website just disappeared, an irate searcher told VirtueOnline. Visitors to www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org - [...]
Continue reading about Liberals show their colours and engage in Cyber-War
