Written by: The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
A brief analysis by the Anglican Communion Institute
It is now nearly three months since General Convention ended and, with the latest letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the situation and difficult path in the months ahead is becoming clearer.
September 17 2006 | Articles
Written by: The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
Saturday, September 16th, 2006
The two signatories on behalf of The Society for the Propagation of Reformed Evangelical Anglican Doctrine (SPREAD) are Bishop John Rodgers Jr and Bishop John Rucyahana from Rwanda. This is important. In addition to their involvement in a similar petition to the Egpyt meeting of the Global South, both have a long history of separatism and intervention within the American Church. John Rodgers was one of the first consecrated Anglican Mission in American (AMiA) bishops and John Rucyahana not only serves in the province which created AMiA but notes that he himself sought soon after the last Lambeth conference to give “episcopal oversight to Anglicans in anti-Scriptural ECUSA dioceses” (p22). The authors, in other words, have developed their analysis and their methodology over many years and this simply represents the latest stage in their approach to Communion disagreements over sexuality and Scripture.
September 16 2006 | Articles
Written by: The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Several important meetings, mostly of American bishops, are soon to be held (e.g. in New York , in Texas, and, we are told, elsewhere). It is important to think through, in advance, what can and cannot, or what should and should not, be pursued at these gatherings. It is no longer possible, we believe, to “patch up our disagreements” within the Episcopal Church; it is no longer possible to “broker deals” with the Communion or, for that matter, with this or that part of the Communion (the Global South, Africa, South America, etc..).
September 05 2006 | Articles