San Joaquin website disappears
Visitors to www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org – the website of the (Southern Cone) Diocese of San Joaquin – are now magically redirected to the new website for the reconstituted TEC diocese, at www.diosanjoaquin.org.
The Society of Archbishop Justus are the custodians of www.anglican.org, of which www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org is a subdomain.
(This underscores the value of owning your domain.)
‘San Joaquin Episcopalians celebrate’
A jubilant celebration of Holy Eucharist concluded the March 29 special convention in the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin and made official Bishop Jerry Lamb’s role as provisional bishop. …
– report from Episcopal Life. (Photo: Episcopal Life Online.)
An Inconvenient Truth: Ecclesial Warming Ahead
Much of the news this week centers on the recent actions of The Episcopal Church House of Bishops and the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in relation to a vote to depose retired bishop William Cox and former TEC bishop John-David Schofield. Dovetailing into these legally questionable depositions are two subsequent issues: the fact that the deposition notice for Bishop Cox misstates his title and the diocese he retired from; and the calling for a Special Convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin to elect a new bishop. …
… KJS and her Chancellor DBB are functioning as police, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner, and most of the other TEC bishops fall in dutifully behind them. …
The latest weekly letter from AAC President, Bishop David Anderson – via Anglican Mainstream. (Photo: The Common Cause Partnership.)
Diocese of South Carolina strongly protests
“Dear Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori:
We, as the Standing Committee and Bishop of South Carolina, write this letter to strongly protest what we recognize as a failure to follow the Canons of our Episcopal Church in the recent depositions of Bishops Schofield and Cox. …
we must respectfully refuse to recognize the depositions, and we will not recognize any new bishop who may be elected to replace Bishop Schofield, unless and until the canons are followed.”
– via TitusOneNine.
Bishop Michael Ingham’s Easter Message
“For resurrection to come, some things must die. This church of ours, for example, is moving through a great time of change. And the paradox is that in order for the Gospel to live, some aspects of the church may have to die. Anglicanism has survived centuries of turmoil – world wars, religious wars, the end of slavery, the emancipation of women – but Anglicanism as we have known it for four hundred years may not survive the movement for dignity and respect that is now being sought for gay and lesbian people today.
There is a great struggle going on in our church between those who see God in the traditions of the past, and those who see God in the new wind of the Spirit challenging our old assumptions about human nature…”
A classic liberal interpretation of what “The Resurrection of Jesus” is about – from the Diocese of New Westminster. (Photo: New Westminster.)
Access All Areas conference 2008 announced
Christians in the Media has announced this year’s Access All Areas conference, to be held May 22-24 – “Access All Areas 08 will be the most important conference of the decade for Christians in the media, journalists, editors, producers and executives in print, broadcast and online.”
– Details from Christians in the Media.
Statement from the Global South Primates Steering Committee
Five Primates – Archbishops Peter Akinola, Greg Venables, Emmanuel Kolini, Mouneer Anis and John Chew – met together as the Global South Primates Steering Committee from 13th to 15th March 2008 in London. They have released a statement which can be read on the Church of Nigeria website.
(Photo of Archbishop Kolini via George Conger.)
Not Dead Yet: The Lost of Tomb of Jesus — one year later
When the symposium’s scholars returned home and picked up their copy of Time or switched on CNN, they got quite a shock. Deeply divided? That wasn’t the symposium that they had attended. … they couldn’t remember much of anyone arguing that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus of Nazareth. Why did CNN give all that air time to Jacobovici and none at all to the fifty-some experts taking part in the symposium? They were upset, to say the least. …
Read the rest of this article at the National Review. (with thanks to Stand Firm for the link. Image: Harper Collins.)
Bishop condemns embryo study plan
The Bishop of Durham has attacked [UK] government plans which could allow scientists to create embryos combining human DNA and animal cells.
In his Easter Sunday message, given at Durham Cathedral, Rt Rev Tom Wright issued a rallying call to all faiths to object to the “1984-style” proposals. …
Report from the BBC. (Photo credit: Diocese of London.)
Sydney Archbishop warns against occult
In his Easter message this weekend, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen has warned of the occult.
The Archbishop is particularly concerned about people using the supernatural to contact deceased loved ones.
Dr Jensen told ABC radio’s AM program there has been a surge of interest non-traditional religions. …
Read the report – and listen to the interview (3 minute / 1.8MB mp3 file) on ABC Radio.
(Photo: Anglican Media Sydney.)
Archbishop Peter Jensen’s Easter Message
Do you believe in ghosts, spirits and such like? I know lots of people do. Even if people come back as ghosts, they are not full people. They are more like memories of people, wisps of humanity.
I know that some of you have been really heartbroken by the loss of a person in your life and you try to contact the person. This is very dangerous – meddling in the occult is never a good idea. Anyway, as the old saying goes, death is so permanent. It is irreversible. We will be joining them, but they’ll not be joining us. Read more
‘Dissident’ Anglicans retain church use
Parishioners at three Anglican churches, who voted to break away from the national church, will celebrate Easter in their buildings after an Ontario Superior Court judge held off yesterday on deciding who gets the keys to the properties. …
Reverend Charlie Masters, who voted with his parishioners at St. George’s to break away from the Anglican Church of Canada and align themselves with the more conservative group, said he was delighted to have his church building to celebrate the holiest weekend in the Christian calendar. …
Story from Globe and Mail. (Photo: Rev. Charlie Masters, St. George’s Lowville)
Updated website for St. John’s Shaughnessy
For all who are upholding St. John’s Shaughnessy in their prayers – their website has been updated – and has a new address.
The new website can be seen at stjohnsvancouver.org.
The Christ Files screens at Noon Good Friday
A Reminder that The Christ Files, a one hour documentary hosted by Dr. John Dickson, airs across Australia on the Seven Network at noon on Good Friday (March 21). You could invite your friends to watch it with you.
For details, visit thechristfiles.com.au.
Good Friday Offering handed to Bishop of Jerusalem
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori presented the Good Friday Offering – a check for $158,801.42 – to Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil Dawani on March 18 at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. …
The Presiding Bishop, who is visiting the Holy Land March 16-24 at Dawani’s invitation, said it is a great privilege to be able to present the offering in person. …
– Story from the Episcopal New Service. (Photo: Episcopal Life.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…