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Breaking news (thanks to Rev. Ngira Simmonds) on the Eve of Pentecost the second Episcopal Unit (cf. diocese) in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has rejected the Anglican Covenant: TE HUI AMORANGI O TE TAIRAWHITI ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TURANGA-NUI-A-KIWA Saturday 11 June 2011 Motion concerning the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant IT… Continue Reading
Anglican worship in NZ is chaotic, anarchic. I have written previously about how in NZ Anglicanism there are so many options for worship there is little to no sense of there being “Common Prayer” here. But allowed flexibility isn’t the subject of this post. The focus of this post is that, even with this enormous… Continue Reading
I have argued that the “Anglican Covenant” is not fit for the purpose and won’t do what its proponents intend it to do. I have argued that the actual issue is homosexuality and the Anglican-Covenant-as-solution does not address the issue. Now, as provinces begin to sign the Covenant, my points are being underscored. The Province… Continue Reading
Symmetry in the sanctuary I have tended to take care not to focus excessively on the Anglican Communion Crisis. It has clearly become important, however, that this pre-eminent liturgy blog outlines the issues and informs readers about what has been highlighted by Fr. Montgomery as being what is primarily wrong with the Anglican Communion today:… Continue Reading
I recently received the above from Bishop Alan Wilson (Bishop of Buckingham UK). The clipping is a laugh. Bishop Alan’s comment with it pointedly said, “This has entirely made my day. It’s good to see the same logic as makes the Anglican Covenant* the answer to the problems of the Anglican Communion can sometimes be… Continue Reading
Archbishop Jabez Bryce, the longest-serving bishop in the Anglican Communion, has died aged 75 in Suva, Fiji. Archbishop Jabez was the first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop. Jabez was born in Vavaʻu, in Tonga, he grew up in Samoa and trained for the priesthood at St John’s College in Auckland, New Zealand. His… Continue Reading
Bible Alone It continues to intrigue me that those who hold to a Bible-Alone, sola scriptura position regularly continue to clamour in favour of the proposed Anglican Covenant. This more protestant, “reformed” end of the Anglican spectrum on the one hand claims the Bible Alone is totally sufficient for all our Christian needs, that the… Continue Reading
