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Sarah Hey
The anonymous reductor(s) have let the prescribed Episcopal Life agenda completely dominate the historical reality of what happened at the 1988 and 1998 Lambeth Conferences. In short, what Episcopal Life is offering churchgoers is not history, but undisguised propaganda.
Monday, July 21 • 
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3Matt Kennedy
By the looks of it, the Lambeth Conference small group or self-select sessions dealing with homosexuality have one overarching goal: to transform principle oriented bishops into to process oriented bishops. Bishops are supposed emerge from the self-select sessions conditioned to disagree while remaining “in community”. They will be trained to emerge believing that both those who bless and those who reject homosexual behavior, stand within the broad stream of faithful Anglicanism; two distinct but valid integrities within one body.
Friday, July 18 • 42
42Andrew Carey
Evangelical Anglicans are going to have to get used to two-and-a-half weeks of being accused, lied about and generally having their views abused, during the Lambeth Conference. I’m not saying that to invite pity or suggest that evangelicals are persecuted and so on, but that the climate in the church and media makes it inevitable.
Wednesday, July 16 • 60
60Matt Kennedy
At this point Good Shepherd had yet to officially leave the Episcopal Church and Anne and I were still ordained Episcopalian ministers. We did not want to leave first, without any consultation, and then come to the bishop with that fact already established. We wanted to act in full consultation and cooperation with the diocese to avoid causing public embarrassment to the diocese, unnecessary discord in our relationship, and any litigation that might come in response. The position of the diocese, however, was that unless and until Good Shepherd officially departed the Episcopal Church there could be no property negotiations. Subsequently, many months after our departure, at a meeting at the diocesan office as relations were breaking down the chancellor for the Diocese of Central New York, Mr. Paul Curtin, suggested that "the bishop never used the word 'negotiate'" and never believed that negotiating for the property of Good Shepherd was possible. This would seem rather absurd given the protocol drawn up in his office and the entire two year process of negotiations and leads to the following conclusion: Either Mr. Curtin is misrepresenting the facts or Bishop Adams purposefully lured Good Shepherd into a position vulnerable to litigation by promising good faith negotiations, never intending to follow through...
Thursday, July 10 • 68
68Andrew Carey
Let's make no mistake about it, Monday's night Synod opens up the possibility of a very serious exodus from the Church of England. The loss of large numbers of Catholics will not leave us with a 'Reformed' church, a mouthwatering prospect for earlier generations of evangelicals, but will leave us with yet another liberal protestant denomination.
Tuesday, July 8 • 38
38David Ould
The lie of the broad church is demolished once and for all. I am now outside the church on a matter that is, according to the discussions of the church, still debatable and where people on both sides are understood to hold their position in good conscience. And that is a ridiculous state of affairs. Our "broad church" has become even narrower. It strikes me that this is in no large part due to an absolute breakdown in trust - I simply do not trust the liberals to play fair. They have demonstrated time and time again that they will not. Now will someone please tell me why Fraser and the rest of them keep crying wolf on the "takeover" of the conservative evangelicals? If even N.T. Wright, great defender of orthodoxy that he claims to be, is on their side who are they worried about?
Monday, July 7 • 111
111David Ould
This is the key issue: the structure by which discipline may be executed already exists in the Anglican Communion. What is lacking is not an adequate structure but any will from the man responsible for their execution to implement discipline.
Monday, June 30 • 115
115Sarah Hey
But why would the authors of the Jerusalem Declaration imagine or wish to "pass the test of legitimacy for all in the Communion" when they have just spent a week meeting about the fact that they do not believe that certain other leaders in the Communion actually share the same gospel?
Monday, June 30 • 104
104Matt Kennedy
At present, membership in the Anglican Communion is determined by and through the invitational decisions of the Archbishop. But his dithering failure to exercise his authority in accordance with Communion commitments and agreements (not to mention the Gospel) laid bare the insufficiency of his office as an instrument of unity. Now in Jerusalem a new confessionally based conciliar structure has arisen within the dying husk of the old. It does not threaten to usurp or unseat Canterbury. Rather it promises to produce a more effective, ordered, and authoritative Anglican instrument that will set Canterbury down into a role that is more accommodating to an emerging post-colonial global Communion. From the perspective of Canterbury, this represents a significant threat. He faces the prospect of gradual marginalization.
Monday, June 30 • 43
43Greg Griffith
The international orthodox leadership is no longer content to huddle together and ask the archbishop for relief. They are creating their own relief. In announcing a new and potentially far-reaching structural response to the needs of the orthodox in North America, they have finally lost patience with the ABC's refusal to exhibit coherent leadership. They are themselves entering the vacuum into which the revisionists have been rushing these past several years, and putting their own facts on the ground.
Saturday, June 28 • 52
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