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A Letter to the Bishops of the Episcopal Church 9 March 2015 Dear Bishops, We have watched developments over the past years. We are loyal members of this Church. We have long-serving family members in this Church. We have known this Church over several generations. We are watching the precipitous decline in attendance in the Episcopal Church. Current proposals to restructure the church are ignoring basic problems. 1 We are frankly concerned. As loyal Episcopal priests, we put this question to you: "Is this any longer a Church one wants to join?" We are looking at a Church in which the...
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August 1, 2015 The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc. P.O. Box 7544 Beaumont, Texas 77726 Dear Sirs: I read with interest your recent assessment, "The New Episcopal Church: What Hath General Convention 2015 Wrought." I very much share the concern that the Episcopal Church (TEC) as a national body may, as a result of the actions of the 2015 General Convention (GC), become no longer recognizably "Anglican." I very much doubt that initiatives to lay the groundwork for redefining marriage could be endorsed throughout the wider Communion; the danger is real that TEC is deliberately moving to become...
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A Brief Analysis of the Primates’ Statement: Warning, Clarity, and Calling Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031207115025/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/primatestmt.htm The Primates’ Statement is a remarkable document on a number of scores. In the first place, it represents a descriptive statement regarding the Communion’s condition, and not a prescriptive vision for it. This is highly unusual. Secondly, rather than being a statement marked by a consensus of views, the Primates speak in divergent ways – “some Provinces…” etc. are distinguished from others in their views...
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The Holy Scriptures and the Teaching of the Church Universal on Human Sexuality Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031207115756/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/scriptureandtradition.htm The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments present a consistent word about God’s intention for human sexuality. God creates humanity in His image, male and female (Gen. 1:27). He orders humankind to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28). Marriage is instituted by God as a means of furthering His creative will for humanity as a whole (Gen. 2:18; Mark 10:6-9). The disobeying of God’s...
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Northeast SEAD Response To “Let the Reader Understand: Principles of Scriptural Interpretation” Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040201234305/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/neresponse-lru.htm We appreciate the publication of Let the Reader Understand: Principles of Scriptural Interpretation (hereafter LRU) and we find significant common ground with the authors of this document. With them, we believe the Holy Scriptures to be “an instrument of the Church’s shared communion with Jesus Christ, the living Word of God” (¶2). With them, we accept the principle that scripture...
Proposal From the Primates Of The Global South Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040201222508/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/foa-primates.htm Preamble: In this meeting the Primates speak as the spiritual leaders of the Communion, in full reaffirmation of Lambeth 1998 Resolution 1.10; and of our related commitments made in Brazil in 2003 on the question of same-sex blessings; and in response to the Lambeth resolutions calling for enhanced responsibility and intervention in emergency situations (Lambeth 1988 Resolution 18:2a; Virginia Report 4:19, 27; 5:15; 6:IV; Lambeth...
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Response of Archbishops Emmanuel Kolini and Yong Ping Chung Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040220060758/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/koliniandyong040128.htm January 28, 2004 We issue this Response, as archbishops of the Anglican Communion, to the January 2004 document written by The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner entitled "A call to accountability: the parable of the AMiA." The document demands a direct and clear response. It is incorrect in its facts and troubling in its spirit. The author’s obvious and unwarranted hostility obscures his message, but it appears that he objects...
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Statement of the Global South Primates Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040610115313/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/acns3829.htm Anglican Church of Kenya Office, Nairobi, Kenya By the special grace of our God, we, the Primates of the Global South of the Anglican Communion representing 18 Provinces with a membership of over 55 million, have met together in Nairobi on 15 & 16 April 2004 under the Chairmanship of the Most Revd Dr Peter Akinola, the Primate of all Nigeria. We begin our gathering around the Lord's Table celebrated by the Primate of Kenya, the Most...
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A Call to Life Together: The Choice facing the Episcopal Church--USA, November 2, 2004 Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20041127163954/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org/ The Windsor Report offers a clear choice to North American Anglicans: "walking together" with the Anglican Communion, or "walking apart". It is important to understand that this choice is not part of the Report's "recommendations." It is a description of what in fact lies before the churches of our Communion at this point in time. "Walking together" literally represents an actual life of "synodality." "Synod...
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