Written by: Rev. Dr. Philip Turner
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
When I was much younger, I lived in Africa; and I lived there at a time when the British Empire was folding up. I was surrounded by people who had spent their lives in the colonies. These people were faced with a terribly painful and frightening question. What were they to do next? Where were [...]
August 11 2009 | Articles
Written by: The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
On the matter of ACI authorship, first ACI statements entail input from several authors, in the US, UK and Canada. Fr Matthew Olver is a Priest at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas and a contributor to the covenant-communion website. On that site, individuals can submit material available on the web, and he forwarded the [...]
August 06 2009 | Articles
Written by: The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
In an article entitled “Why direct sign-on now to the Covenant is a bad idea” (that appeared on his blog PRELUDIUM shortly after our article “Communion and Hierarchy”) Fr. Mark Harris has done us all a big favor. He has made clear the full scope of the widespread view among TEC’s present leadership that the Archbishop of Canterbury’s observation about the possibility of covenant ratification on the part of dioceses is both harmful and unhelpful.
Fr. Harris registers five objections to ratification on the part of individual dioceses. We will address each in due course. First, however, there are two general comments that will help frame the disagreements we have both with his assessment of the situation and the objections he lodges against the possibility of diocesan ratification of the proposed covenant.
August 03 2009 | Articles