Gene Robinson on University of Kent campus ‘dawn to dusk’
Here are some extracts from today’s report by Cherie Wetzel for Anglicans United and Latimer Press —
I heard several different people report from the American provincial meeting held on Monday afternoon, that our bishops are finding it difficult to encounter so many disagreeable attitudes towards them. In short, they are wondering why they are disliked (some said ‘hated’) so strongly by so many bishops from other provinces.
And folks, they “don’t get it.” …
Their efforts to tell the others that there is nothing wrong with the American church and that we are not in turmoil and/or crisis is falling on deaf ears. …
Yesterday at the ad hoc press conference with Archbishop Deng Bul of the Sudan, the Episcopal News Service correspondent here asked if he had spoken with Gene Robinson. When he replied “No”, she asked if he would like to.
That’s when the archbishop replied, “We will not talk to Gene Robinson or listen to him or his testimony. He has to confess, receive forgiveness and leave. Then we will talk. You cannot bring the listening to gay people to our Communion. People who do not believe in the Bible are left out of our churches, not invited in to tell us why they don’t believe.”
The gay press people and gay advocates are here en masse. Gene Robinson is on the campus of this Conference from dawn to dusk, with events planned every evening – last evening he spoke at the Law School – and many of these sessions are by invitation only. There is no secret that they are here to inform and convert. Their daily newspaper is found in every building on the campus. The American bishops talked about moving the location of their next provincial meeting so Gene can come, which means a non-restricted area on the campus, such as a cafeteria or green space, outside the watchful eyes of Kent Campus Security.
And so, the schizophrenia continues. …
– Read the whole report here.
(Photo of Gene Robinson at a ‘Changing Attitude / Integrity Eucharist’ in Canterbury: Episcopal News Service/Mike Collins)
US bishops furious over Robinson exclusion
There is a growing concerted effort by American bishops to find a way to bring Gene Robinson, the homosexual Bishop of New Hampshire, into the Big Tent. America’s liberal bishops are furious by the exclusion of Robinson from the Lambeth Conference and on the first full day of the Lambeth Conference spent most of their time trying to figure out how to get Robinson in the door. …
– Today’s Lambeth report from VirtueOnline.
Sudanese demand Robinson resign
The openly gay bishop of New Hampshire must resign if the Anglican church is to be saved from schism, a senior Archbishop said today. The Archbishop of Sudan, Dr Daniel Deng, who has the backing of more than 150 bishops and archbishops from 17 provinces in the Global South, said that if Bishop Gene Robinson was to be true to his Christian faith he had no alternative but to step down. …
– Ruth Gledhill at Times Online reports from Lambeth.
– See also this report by Cherie Wetzel at Anglican United and Latimer Press –
“We have just had a briefing with the Archbishop of the Sudan, the Most Reverend Dr. Daniel Deng Bul. He informed the press room this morning that he would come and speak with us, since the Anglican Communion News Bureau running this conference, would not schedule a time for him to address the press.”
Earlier, the Sudanese Bishops released this Statement to the Lambeth Conference –
In view of the present tensions and divisions within the Anglican Communion, and out of deep concern for the unity of the Church, we consider it important to express clearly the position of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) concerning human sexuality. …
(Photo: Episcopal News Service.)
John Wycliffe and the English Bible
The Church Society has made available a helpful article on John Wycliffe and the English Bible by F.F. Bruce – first published in Churchman in 1984.
As the Lambeth Conference rolls on, with some defying the clear teaching of the Bible, it’s good to reminded of those who laboured long and hard to make God’s Word accessible to us all.
The article is available as a PDF file – direct link.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…