Here it is: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s communication with the Communion. Commentary will follow later today. Renewal in the Spirit The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Pentecost letter to the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion 1
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The Archbishop writes a Pentecost Letter to the Communion
It’s lead up time, friends, time in Anglicanland when the spin masters try out the words they will use when the going gets tough. Times are going to get tough indeed, for there is always wreckage in the fast lane. So here is the word of the day: Hypocrite .
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A.S. Haley on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion.
In the North, the old Triennial Convention changed its name to the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1846, focusing on foreign missions alone in the Northern society model. Almost immediately there was trouble.
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Baptists and postbellum foreign missions
After the Schism of 1845 that created the Southern Baptist Convention, both groups were forced to reorganize. But the split was not clean cut, and mixing of both groups would continue until the 1890s. In the South, many churches were lukewarm toward the new SBC because the meeting in May 1845 was supposed to involve only talking about what to do, not actually creating a new convention.
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Southern Baptists . . . and Northern
There is no blog entry over in Realignment City, aka Stand Firm, on the election of bishop in the Diocese of Utah save this one: Utah’s Bishop Election—a man who unrepentantly engages in sex acts with other men on the ballot . That particularly snotty little headline has not been supplanted by anything like one that might read: Utah holds election, new bishop elected in two ballots
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I couldn’t help noticing…
CHICAGO — A graduate student at DePaul University, atheist activist Hemant Mehta avoided being a church hater by becoming a church rater. Enlisted four years ago on a lark to attend about a dozen Chicago-area churches and honestly rate his experience, Mehta's beliefs did not change, but …
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Website rates U.S. churches
(The primary correction is that Bishop Douglas has resigned Executive Council. He will at some point not be the ACC clergy member from The Episcopal Church, but when is still in question.) The Church of England Newspaper, one of several church wide newspapers for (but not of) the C of E, has just published an article by George Conger titled, “Row looms over ‘vacant’ ACC seat.” (This was posted yesterday, Sunday May 16) It concerns the issues surrounding the fact that Dr. Ian Douglas has become Bishop Ian Douglas (much to the delight of many of his friends.) In the move from one state to another (ontological or otherwise) he will have to relinquish his seat as The Episcopal Church clergy member of the Anglican Consultative Council.
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The question of the “seat” on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion. (revised)
The Anglican Church in North America, ACNA, is an amalgam of dioceses, networks, churches clergy all both attached to ACNA and often having parallel church connections in other bodies – in some cases existing Provinces of the Anglican Communion, in others in long established independent churches (the Reformed Episcopal Church), and churches begun by other Provinces as incursions into The Episcopal Church (AMiA & CANA). Many of the clergy and bishops that left The Episcopal Church hold license / canonical residence in the Global South, notably the Province of the Southern Cone. Since its inception there have been signs that the ACNA amalgam would be prone to disintegration.
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The ACNA "Anglican Future" express is losing passengers.
Paul Harvey Let’s move from the ridiculous (see yesterday’s post) to the sublime: A really fine new book to recommend, more about religious history than I would have guessed initially: Suzanne E. Smith, To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death .
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The Colored Embalmer: Homegoings, Capitalism, and African American Civil Rights
Aided by faith, not to mention a few generous checks, church leaders announced Tuesday morning the completion of a $15.5 million fundraising campaign to preserve and restore the city’s Spanish colonial missions slightly more than two years after it originally began.
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Missions fundraising goal complete