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BHM News - TEC: Parsley’s comments heartbreaking
Finally! As published in the Birmingham News: http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-commentary/2009/08/your_views_trails_of_africa_ex.html The Episcopal Church: Parsley’s comments heartbreaking Recently, the Episcopal Church abandoned its place in the Anglican Communion. Scholar, and Bishop N.T. Wright opined that by “cynical double-think” to the contrary, “we should not be fooled.” The archbishop of Canterbury, sole arbiter of all things Anglican, agreed. Far more appalling was Presiding [...]
Continue reading...For Those Who Cannot Say It
6. August 2009
August 5, 2009 Dear Editors: Recently The Episcopal Church abandoned its place in the Anglican Communion. Bishop of Durham, N. T. Wright, said resolution DO25 “marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion” By “cynical double-think” to the contrary, “We should not be fooled.” The Archbishop of Canterbury and sole arbiter of all things [...]
Continue reading...Theological Ignorance Marks TEC Resolutions
2. August 2009
Assurances of TEC “Unpersuasive” says Canterbury The adoption of resolutions D025 and C056 by the 76th General Convention speaks to an unhealthy degree of theological ignorance and ecclesiastical incoherence at work within the higher councils of The Episcopal Church [TEC], Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said in a statement released July 27. Read it all here: http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/assurances-on-convention-actions-%e2%80%98unpersuasive%e2%80%99-archbishop-says-living-church-7-27-09/
Continue reading...Prelate Propensity to Prevaricate
21. July 2009
Dear Editors: Greg Garrison missed some low hanging fruit on Saturday. Henry Parsley maintains the Episcopal Church did nothing to abandon its commitment to the Anglican Communion. Garrison could have held Henry’s feet to the fire on specifics from substantive players. Ever conciliatory scholar Kendall Harmon says, “There are now some participants in the 76th General Convention who [...]
Continue reading...Seriously, Grow Up!
19. July 2009
When I was a child . . . When I became a man I gave up childish ways Sadly, on more than one occasion when I was a teenager, I along with a friend would tell my parents I was spending the night at his house and we would tell his parents he was spending the [...]
Continue reading...An Open Letter to Believing Episcopalians
17. July 2009
July 17, 2009 An Open Letter to Believing Episcopalians The Living Church recently chimed in on the extraordinary events taking place at the Episcopal Church’s General Convention underway in Anaheim California. Ultimately, the House of Bishops considered (ultimately for not so long) a quick and bold retreat from a progressive agenda after having brought fire down upon [...]
Continue reading...TEC - “A Particularly Ugly Sight”
15. July 2009
The passage of Resolution D025 by the General Convention of 2009 is a repudiation of Holy Scripture as the church has received and understood it ecumenically in the East and West. It is also a clear rejection of the mutual responsibility and interdependence to which we are called as Anglicans. That it is also a [...]
Continue reading...ECUSA Abandons 500 Year Old Communion
15. July 2009
N. T. Wright on ECUSA . . . This marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion. Granted, the TEC resolution indicates a strong willingness to remain within the Anglican Communion. But saying “we want to stay in, but we insist on rewriting the rules” is cynical double-think. We should not be fooled. [...]
Continue reading...ECUSA Out of Communion & Out of Faith
14. July 2009
ECUSA “Out of the Anglican Communion and the mainstream of apostolic Christianity.” The best and brightest of the Episcopal Church interpret ECUSA’s recent actions here: http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.com/2009/07/statement-on-the-repudiation-of-b033/ Note specifically the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks prior to ECUSA taking the extraordinary measure last night: Speaking at the close of the Council’s meeting, the Archbishop of Canterbury anticipated yesterday’s action and spoke [...]
Continue reading...ECUSA Leader Hostile to Historic Faith
14. July 2009
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said Sunday, “The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy - that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting [...]
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26. August 2009
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