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© 2007 The Rev. Canon Benjamin Twinamaani
Now that the much anticipated 'final' meeting of the Episcopal Church House of Bishops in New Orleans has come and passed, and that the final resolutions from that meeting have been received with disappointment by many in the Anglican Communion, it is time to say this piece.
 

Many Anglicans were convinced that September 30th, 2007, would bring clarity to the ongoing struggle within the Anglican Communion over the church's coherent witness.  By this day, it was hoped, there would be a clear decision as to the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops commitment to abide by the common teaching and discipline of the Communion; by this date "realignment" according to the definitions of this teaching and discipline would proceed with general and orderly consent.  Obviously, this has not happened.  But a new push to re-order the lines of jurisdiction within American Anglicanis

As many predicted, some hopefully and some fearfully, the Joint Standing Committee (JSC) have given a positive assessment of the response of the The Episcopal Church's (TEC) House of Bishops to the Primates' Questions from Dar Es Salaam. In particular, in relation to the two key requests concerning TEC's response to The Windsor Report (TWR), JSC conclude

I have been invited to talk about something called "conciliarism" and its relevance for our life as Anglican Christians.  There is an obvious reason for exposing this topic in a public forum within our church.  And this is because, in the current struggle within Anglicanism, we have, both by default and by design, ended up acting out a debate over whether our Christian lives as churches together are to be governed by "common consent" within a council, or by some other, more local, individual, or informal means.  And more generally, although conciliarism is not exactly a hot topic within the la

Anglican Communion Institute Response to the New Orleans House of Bishops Statement With brief reflections on the report of the Joint Standing Committee

The Right Reverend Jim Stanton, Bishop of Dallas and member of the Board of ACI, Inc., offers his reflections on the recent House of Bishops meeting. 

Read it all here.....

  For easier reading and forwarding, and to access a copy with Dr. Radner's footnotes, democracyviolence-ephraimradner.

The ACI has long hoped to encourage the reflection and writing of developing scholars and theologians, much as SEAD, in a previous era, did through its conferences and occasional journal The Harvest.  In an effort to renew such a path, we have begun to place on our website the work of some newer voices, and will continue to do so. Craig David Uffman is a senior M.Div.