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The new Bishop of Bangor is the current Archdeacon of Cardigan.
After two-and-a-half days locked in a cathedral, members of the Church in Wales have named their choice for the next Bishop of Bangor.
The Archdeacon of Cardigan the Venerable Andrew John, 44, is the ecumenical officer for the St Davids diocese in west Wales.
The 46-member electoral [...]
This morning has seen the Bishop of Bangor story go mainstream.
Gay cleric Jeffrey John could become Britain’s first openly homosexual bishop - Telegraph
Gay priest Dr Jeffrey John could become a bishop in Wales - Times
New fears of schism in Anglican Church - Times (Commentary by Ruth Gledhill)
And not content with her commentary for the main [...]
Over at the Covenant website, Nathan Humphrey has reposted an essay on Sacraments and Innovation. In it, as he explores whether a gay union can be blessed, he makes the following comments:
I would argue that marriage is valuable to the Church only insofar as it edifies the couple (and any children the couple is blessed [...]
Giles Fraser in this morning’s "Thought for the Day" completely misses the main theology behind the BCP Marriage Service, and in doing so comes to the wrong conclusion.
Back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as the Book of Common Prayer was being put together, marriage was said to be for three purposes:
First, It was ordained [...]
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 [...]
This post by Lisa Fox is causing a bit of a stir today. Apparently, shock-horror, it turns out that Bishop John-David Schofield of San Joaquin is a celibate homosexual and furiously traditional and orthodox in his theology. "Oh no", screams Lisa (to paraphrase - obviously). That means that he is a:
self-loathing person who attacks gay [...]
