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CANA AND AMIA BISHOPS ALSO EXCLUDED The non-celibate homosexual Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson will not be invited to Lambeth 2008 and neither will the recently installed U.S. Nigerian Bishop Martyn Minns of CANA. Bishops of the Anglican Mission in America have also not been invited. There will also not be any bishops from the Reformed Episcopal Church, even though this branch of Anglicanism has entered into a formal concordat with the Anglican Province of Nigeria. It is also understood that invitations to the churches of the Porvoo Agreement would come later. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General...

No Lambeth Invitation for Bishop Robinson http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3366 http://tinyurl.com/yoerxw 5/22/2007 The Bishop of New Hampshire will not be invited to participate in the 2008 Lambeth Conference, according to the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary of the Lambeth Conference. Invitations to the conference were mailed May 22 to more than 800 bishops of the Anglican Communion by the conference’s host, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) and the Rt. Rev. Charles Murphy and his suffragans, the bishops of the Anglican Mission in North America (AMiA) will not receive...

CHARLESTON, SC: (1/20/2006)--If the Archbishop of Canterbury and his 2008 Lambeth Design Team continues a "business-as-usual" Lambeth conference, with North American churches present, the Anglican Communion will incur the judgment of God and effectively put an end to the Communion as a serious, respected Christian body. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Noll, Episcopal theologian and Vice-Chancellor of Uganda Christian University, told more than 300 delegates to a "Mere Anglican" conference here, that changing the subject and "moving along," is no longer acceptable, and that what happened at Lambeth '98, which wrestled with central issues of human sexuality, cannot be glossed over....

"Primates should take lead in forming new Anglican Communion if no discipline available and no official instrument for reform is forthcoming" The Lambeth Commission in its Windsor Report "recommended and urged the primates to consider the adoption by the churches of the Communion of a common Anglican Covenant which would make explicit and forceful the loyalty and bonds of affection which govern the relationships between the Churches of the Communion" [Windsor Report, pp. 62-64]. A Covenant for Communion in Mission. News Analysis By David W. Virtue www.virtueonlline.org BIRMINGHAM, AL. (1/14/2006)--There is a race on in the Anglican Communion to produce...

Christopher Johnson has been offering his thoughts about the possible outcomes of the 2006 Ice Cream Social in Columbus.  Since I think there is zero chance that ECUSA will change its course, and 100% chance that Convention will pass some greasy resolution apologizing for hurting overseas feelings and by the way here's a bucket of money if you let us hang around, the only real interest is whether the leaders of the Rebel Alliance will screw their courage to the sticking place and separate.  This Convention will also elect a successor to Frank Griswold, and that successor will either be...

The other day, I wandered the Episcopal News Service archives in search of ECUSA reaction to the 1998 Lambeth Conference sexuality resolution.  As I read, two facts quickly became apparent.  The rupture in the Anglican world began five years before Gene Robinson got his pointy hat.  And orthodox Anglicans can't say that we weren't warned: Bishops of the Episcopal Church have been struggling to explain the meaning of this summer’s Lambeth Conference to the folks back home. Some of them took advantage of the technological facilities-over 200 computer terminals spread across the Kent University campus, thanks to a grant from...

To the Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church from the Scottish Anglican Network July 6th 2005 Dear Brothers in Christ Future discussion of issues raised by the Windsor Report, the Primates’ Communiqué and the College of Bishops March 4th Statement. We write on behalf of a group of concerned clergy and congregation members to respond to your latest statement. We have been grateful for three opportunities so far to speak at length with you as representatives of the College. We understand that the Anglican Communion will initiate conversations as previously agreed in 1998 in preparation for the Lambeth Conference of...

THE Anglican Church moved closer to schism yesterday when members of its central administrative council formally asked the Churches of Canada and the US to go. Unconvinced by the justifications offered by both Churches on Tuesday for their actions in ordaining an openly homo- sexual bishop and authorising same-sex blessings, members of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Nottingham asked them to leave the council and its central finance and standing committees. Although the motion invites the Churches to withdraw voluntarily, it amounts in effect to a punishing expulsion. The debate was held behind closed doors at Nottingham Univers-ity yesterday,...

Why are we getting thrown out of the Anglican Communion? It is a night to remember. We celebrate ours as the most advanced of cultures. We speed across time as through uncharted waters. But it is dark, and the air of the Anglican Communion is chilled. We are the Titanic. Only 100 feet ahead is the twin-peaked iceberg – General Convention 2006 and Lambeth 2008. In charity, may I tell you why we’re getting thrown out of the Anglican Communion, so long our home? The framework of love and truth that is that Communion requires our expulsion. In America, someone...

"To be in Communion" means to have open access to the divine nourishment which the re-enactment of Jesus's Last Supper makes available to the faithful: to feast at the Lord's Table. But to be in Communion also means to be in good standing with each other and to agree on doctrinal essentials. The state of Communion between the international Anglican Churches' 38 provinces has finally been blown apart by the American consecration of a gay bishop and the Canadian decision to bless gay marriages, and by the angry reaction of most of the rest. MSN Search As the Archbishop of...

“The Archbishop of Canterbury is leading a summit of more than 50 Church of England bishops to discuss the homosexuality crisis in the church.Dr Rowan Williams will jointly chair the meeting being held behind closed doors at Lambeth Palace in London with Dr David Hope, the Archbishop of York. All 44 diocesan bishops and 10 suffragans - who are bishop appointees - were asked to attend the meeting to discuss the way forward, Lambeth Palace confirmed.They will discuss October’s Windsor Report, a document produced by the commission set up to examine the crisis….”Read the whole thing. The London Times has...

Episcopalians aren't making a mass exodus from their church, but dioceses across the country are doing a slow bleed as members realize that a much-anticipated report released six weeks ago has no teeth and that the denomination's ordination of a homosexual bishop will go unpunished.     The Windsor Report, which sought to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over authority and homosexuality, criticizes same-sex blessings in U.S. and Canadian churches and the ordination last year of Bishop V. Gene Robinson. But the report also reprimands Third World bishops who have crossed diocesean lines to help marooned conservative parishes.     Within a few...

For part one, click here. The Bishop of North Dakota on the Windsor Report (from titusonenine): The Report clearly indicates that the controversial actions of the General Convention of 2003 in consenting to the election of a non-celibate gay man to the episcopate and in allowing the experimentation of liturgies to bless same-sex unions were inappropriate and damaging to the Anglican Communion. In light of the clear teaching and position of all four Anglican Instruments of Unity (the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Conference, Primates’ Meeting and Anglican Consultative Council), these actions are interpreted as showing disregard for the moral authority...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The Anglican Communion's Lambeth Commission tried to avoid a split Monday by asking its American branch to do something highly fashionable these days -- apologize. As if they had just spilled some sherry on their hostess' new carpet, 50 prelates of the Episcopal Church USA, known as ECUSA, were to "apologize" for having consecrated Canon Vicki Gene Robinson, an active homosexual, as bishop of New Hampshire. That's what the Lambeth Commission, set up a year ago to prevent a schism, demanded of the Episcopalians. Primates from the southern hemisphere, where the majority of the world's...

The call was made by the Lambeth Commission, set up after the ordination of Gene Robinson threatened to split the worldwide Anglican church. Commission chairman Irish Anglican leader Robin Eames concluded: "There remains a very real danger that we will not choose to walk together." The report called for a moratorium on the consecration of gay candidates. It demanded an explanation from the Anglican Church in the US, known as Episcopalian, about "how a person living in a same gender union may be considered eligible to lead the flock of Christ". Scripture must be used to back up the explanation,...

Although it would be hyperbolic to suggest that Monday, October 18, 2004 is the most important day in Anglican Christianity since Henry VIII first noticed Anne Boleyn, that day, when the Lambeth Commisssion report is scheduled to be released, is surely in the top five. The report will only make recommendations but these recommendations will shape the course of Anglicanism for at least the next generation or two. What might the report contain? As I see it, the Commission had four options: (1) ECUSA will be immediately suspended from all participation in the Anglican Communion unless it repents of the...

Media Briefing on the Document: The Windsor Report 2004 The press launch of the Windsor Report, produced by the Lambeth Commission will be launched on Monday, 18 October, 12.00 midday. The Launch will take place in St Paul's Cathedral Crypt. click here for map The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland,the Most Revd Robert Eames, chairman of the Lambeth Commission, will give a short presentation on the document and will take a limited number of questions. Only accredited and pre-registered journalists will be admitted. Reading Library Time The document (embargoed until the time of 12.00 midday) will be...

Anglicans to shun gay-row bishops By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 03/09/2004) Liberal American bishops face having their invitations to Anglican summits withdrawn by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, if they continue to defy the worldwide Church over homosexuality. Under tough proposals likely to be recommended by the Lambeth Commission next month, the liberal leadership of the American Episcopal Church could be excluded from policy making and shunned by the vast majority of Anglicans. Bishops who publicly support the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as Anglicanism's first actively gay bishop last year or who authorise gay "marriages", both...

From tomorrow’s London Times: Lambeth Comission May Take Action against ECUSA Filed under: General— kendall @ 9:29 pm “The Episcopal Church in the United States faces exclusion from the worldwide Anglican communion as punishment for ordaining a gay bishop, The Times has learnt. The draconian disciplinary measure is expected to be recommended by a commission set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to resolve the crisis over homosexuality…. The commission’s findings, which will not be published officially until October, will cause widespread dismay among liberals and Anglican-Catholics in the West, who will regard it as a sign...

LAMBETH COMMISSION REPORT SET FOR OCTOBER 16 Special Report By David W. Virtue The Archbishop of Canterbury will send the Lambeth Commission report to the Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) and then release it to the public on or about Saturday October 16th when the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion is in London, a source has told Virtuosity. The Primates will meet on or around Feb. 21-26 2005, but the venue has not yet been decided, but the Primates meeting is scheduled for Northern Ireland the home turf of liberal Irish Primate Robin Eames. The letter...