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The Changing Attitude blog proclaims, "The Anglican Communion is committed to the inclusion and pastoral care of LGBT people."I think it should read, "The Anglican Communion is perhaps committed to the inclusion and pastoral care of LGBT people."Colin Coward argues with some persuasion, that Lambeth 1998 and the Windsor Report cast their statements "rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible

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I posted earlier my attending the National Youth Workers Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is of course the Rector of all Lewes' fault.I learned a lot, got at chance to meet other people in the Youth Ministry work and got a new read on the extent to which American Protestant Christianity (APC) is on a very different page than many, if not most, Episcopalians. Conservative or Progressive, or

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There it is, in black and white, or in pixels or 0's and 1's. But in print, on the screen or in binary code the information is just stark and plain."Jim Naughton, the diocese’s canon for communications and advancement is resigning on December 11 to form Canticle Communications, a strategic communications consulting firm focused on churches and faith-based advocacy groups, Bishop John Bryson Chane

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I want to point to several essays worth the read that come from, let us say, other quadrants than Preludium's normal comfort zone.RIGHT:Dan Martins over at Confessions of a Carioca has written a really fine essay on All Saints, published in The Living Church for November 1. Read it HERE.The blog / website Covenant sometimes has articles that are demanding, disagreeable and with which I have

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Bishop Stanton of Dallas has written an article, "Diocese and Covenant: Reflections on Dallas, its History and Future that has gotten a fair bit of play in the past few days.In this paper Bishop Stanton argues that the Diocese of Dallas has a right to sign on to the Anglican Covenant as a diocese. He states, "We possess ... not only the authority to consider and respond to the proposed Anglican

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Two days into the National Youth Workers Convention, Cincinnati and I am still alive and well. Here I am blogging as an old learning dog. This is a convention packaged by Youth Specialties. It is repeated three times across the country. There are about two thousand participants here.There are several things remarkable about the conference:(i) It is decidedly, clearly and completely

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The Rev. Brian Prior, VP of the House of Deputies and Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Spokane, Washington, has been elected bishop of Minnesota. The report on that election can be found HERE.Congratulations to Brian, a fine priest and gentle person. His election leaves vacant the position of VP of the House of Deputies. That position is not filled between General

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Thinking Anglicans keeps watch night and day for all of us concerning life in the Church of England. From the entries of the past few days there seems to be several storms brewing, storms which we too in Episcopal-land should note. Where there is outrage in the CofE there must also be outrage in TEC. Sharing the burden is a worthy task.The convoluted process of deciding if and when there will

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Tomorrow the Diocese of Minnesota will elect a new bishop. Among the candidates is a partnered lesbian. That reality is there, but seems not to be determinate of outcomes. On the Walking With Integrity website there is a fine sermon by The Rev. David Norgard, President of Integrity. Go read it HERE.In it Fr. Norgard says, "Whatever the outcome of the election, the Diocese of Minnesota has come

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It's Friday, it must be Cincinnati. I'm here for one of the three National Youth Workers Conventions put on by Youth Specialties. The Rector of all Lewes, in his wisdom, decided it was time for me to take up work with the Youth Group at St. Peter's, Lewes. SPY is a wonderful group of young people. Click on the two videos on the left - on mission trip 2009 and on young episcopalians - for a

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Yesterday October 29th, in the mid night darkness, President Obama went to Dover Airbase in Delaware to acknowledge and receive the bodies of 18 military personnel who died in Afghanistan last week. He met with families of those who were killed. He took part in the receiving ceremony. Part of the proceedings were captured on film and later, back in Washington, he spoke for a moment about the

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There is so much going on in Anglican / Episcopal land, and so little sense to it, that here at Preludium we took a break. This last Sunday afternoon, after having preached at The Episcopal Church of St. Andrew and St. Matthew, I returned to Lewes, the village by the bay and the big water, to bless the Air Cannon for a group of women and their male assistants who are entering their Cannon in the

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These are difficult days in Episcopal Land. People come and go and only the bravest dares opine as to what it all means.The Bishop of Western Kansas, James Adams, has decided being bishop is not what he is called at this point to be. He has every right to take charge of his own spiritual health and to say enough is enough. He is going to the Diocese of Central Florida to be a vicar of a new

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So here it is: John Stewart show on the Roman Catholic Apostolic Constitution making it possible for communities of Anglicans to join the RCC with benefits. A nice laugh, but as usual with some digs into the truth of the matter. It ends with John Oliver saying this line, "Not only are you switching to a more reliable provider, you get to keep your own phone number." Take a look. (Sorry about

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According to TitusOneNine, the special convention in South Carolina meeting today (Saturday October 24th) passed resolutions 1-4 with clear, large majorities. Resolution #2 particularly stands out:The summary given by the Post and Courier states"South Carolina Episcopalians this week consider a resolution to distance the local diocese from the national Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Diocese of

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Ian Douglas, Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School, member of Executive Council, currently clergy member of the Anglican Consultative Council, and a great deal more, has just been elected bishop of Connecticut. He was elected on the second ballot. This is very good news indeed.In a field of fine candidates the diocese chose a person solidly

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The Traditional Anglican Communion is touted to have some 400,000 members worldwide. They constitute the largest single group of Anglican types set to go to Rome under the new Apostolic Constitution. So who are they?Here are some bits and pieces of information from and about them:From the TAC webpages: The TAC is an Anglican Church. The TAC exists in Africa, Australia, the Torres Strait, Canada,

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The news today of the impending Apostolic Constitution on a process for bringing into the Roman Catholic Church religious communities from within Anglicanism, complete with their peculiar practices, married clergy (but not bishops), and such, has been a downer. This process is presented as part of the ecumenical hope for the reunion of Christians into one body, but it really is that hope made a

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Here it is: The Archbishop's letter to his bishops and the Primates of the Anglican Communion regarding the just released plan by the Roman Catholic Church to allow for something called, "personal ordinariates," which would allow some Anglicans to form church communities within the Roman Catholic Church with Anglican sensibilities but Roman approval. Priests and deacons could marry, bishops

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Anglicans Down Under, a really thoughtful blog from New Zealand, posted an entry titled, Diocese, Province, Communion: will any two of the three do? Go read this fine blog, regularly.In this essay the author Peter Carrell writes, "Yes, the Anglican Communion could be an ecumenical fellowship rather than something with aspiration and momentum towards becoming a world church. Would it not be in

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The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story on the Seamen's Church Institute in Philadelphia. It's a great acknowledgement of a wonderful ministry. The Rev. James Von Dreele, episcopal priest extraordinaire, heads this ministry. It is interdenominational, hospitable, concerned with issues of justice as well as of care, and demanding. The Episcopal Church is engaged in port ministries in many places,

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This is billed as "A light-hearted, but accurate look into The Episcopal Church, a covert group of Christ-like ninjas." It's better than that. It, coupled with "Who are We?" from Credo, gives a sense of what the Episcopal Church is about seen from two different perspectives. I like this second more than the Credo one. Give it a look:Congratulations to Frank Logue, priest in Georgia. Great work!

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I like Bishop Jack Spong a lot. He does chew the bone down and suck on the marrow. He is always working away at the death he has overcome - the fundamentalism of his past. Sometimes that fundamentalism seems so high, he can't get over it, so low....etc. Sometimes he seems to rant. Rants can be very entertaining and finally enlightening. We just have to be willing to hear it out.Bishop Spong

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In my last post I suggested about Bishop Ackerman that. "If he actually was going to Bolivia that would be one thing, but he in all likelihood has only left for the metaphysical Bolivia but is still to be found in the United States, now mucking about in a jurisdiction not his own with papers from a Province that commissions privateers. He has left the building, but we have not seen the last of

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Well its official now. Bishop Keith Ackerman, retired of Quincy, has been declared to have renounced the ministry of this Church. The ENS story is HERE. There will be the usual frump that he has of course done no such thing, but rather indicated by letter that he is now a bishop in the Diocese of Bolivia, a sorry mess of a diocese in the Province of the Southern Cone presided over by Bishop

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