Musings of an Anglican/Episcopal Priest

Month: August 2004 (Page 1 of 3)

Former frat house has become

Former frat house has become the nation’s first residence for Orthodox Christian students

Filed under: Orthodox Christianity— Jacobse @ 4:24 pm
Old party pad at U. of I. is now focused on faith

By Manya A. Brachear
Tribune staff reporter

August 20, 2004

CHAMPAIGN – Waving a silver cross dipped in holy water and entwined with basil branches and a horsehair brush, a Greek Orthodox priest on Friday will convert a fraternity’s former party house into the nation’s first residence hall for Orthodox Christian college students.

The blessing of the home, formerly known as “The Palace” among the University of Illinois’ sororities and fraternities, will allow Orthodox students raised in different ethnic traditions to live and worship as one, a symbol of the unity that some Orthodox churches in North America have been trying to achieve for years.

Students who have signed up to live in the house–eight so far–include Greek, Indian and Egyptian Orthodox.

“It’s a model of what’s to come,” said Rev. George Pyle, the Greek Orthodox priest who oversees the university’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship. “The hymns might sound different, but the message is the same.”

Way to go guys.. .

India voices gay protest Homosexual

India voices gay protest

Homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture, doctrine, and Indian values, argued leaders of the Church of North India (CNI) at a recent Church summit on the sexuality issue.

This decision, and the earlier opposition of CNI’s 24 bishops to the consecration of practicing homosexual Gene Robinson, is expected to guide the deliberations of the CNI’s moderator, the Rt Rev Z James Terom, Bishop of Chata Nagpur, who serves as a member of the Lambeth Commission on Communion.

With the Commission, chaired by the Irish Primate, Archbishop Robin Eames, due to report in October, the Indian Church’s hard-line stance demonstrates how high feelings are running in the wake of last year’s consecration of the Communion’s first active homosexual.

[Listening to: Pretty Polly – Dirk Powell – If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (4:26)]

Americans win support Two leading

Americans win support

Two leading figures in the Anglican world this week gave support to conservative parishes in America who are opposed to their Church’s decision to consecrate the Anglican Communion’s first active gay bishop.

In a move that will give dissenting parishes greater legitimacy and confidence and increase the pressure on the American Primate, Frank Griswold, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, and the Ugandan Primate, Archbishop Henry Orombi, have agreed to provide them with oversight.

[Listening to: Pretty Polly – Dirk Powell – If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (4:26)]

Sunday trading leads to ‘unstable

Sunday trading leads to ‘unstable families’

Ten years of Sunday shopping has left parents feeling pressured to work on weekends and children growing up in unstable families, a reinvigorated campaign to restrict Sunday trading claimed this week.

Drawing on new poll results, Keep Sunday Special (KSS) campaigners this week said parents were the hardest hit by pressures to work on Sundays since the inception of big store Sunday shopping in Britain.

The NOP poll, interviewing 1,912 adults nationally, showed that 71 per cent of respondents said they “would not be bothered at all”, or “not very much” if larger shops closed on Sundays and trading reverted to pre-1994 scenario where the market was left open to local convenience shops only.

From Midwest Conservative Journal: DARKEST

From Midwest Conservative Journal:

DARKEST AMERICA
Ladies and gentlemen! Give it up for…Ugandan imperialism!

The Rt Revd Evans Kisekka, the Bishop of Luweero Diocese, has my full blessing and support in receiving the clergy from St James Church, Newport Beach, and All Saints’ Church, Long Beach, California, USA. These clergy are canonically resident in the Luweero Diocese and are priests and deacons in good standing of the Church of Uganda.

It was the Christian thing to do since we don’t recognize the ECUSA anymore:

On 20 November 2003, the House of Bishops of the Church of the Province of Uganda (Anglican) made the following resolutions:

“The Church of the Province of Uganda (Anglican) cuts her relationship and Communion with the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) on their resolution and consequent action of consecrating and enthroning an openly confessed homosexual Gene Robinson as the Bishop of New Hampshire Diocese in the Anglican Communion; and with any other Province that shall follow suit.”

[Listening to: Hunky Dory/Ryestraw – Dirk Powell – If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (3:09)]

what more can I say?

what more can I say?

Lesbian Action Doll Goes on Sale…
Excerpts: An action figure described as the world’s first lesbian action doll went on sale in the US [recently].

Bobbie Doll is the first of the dolls from the DYKEdolls series to go on sale. The 12-inch tall toy wears a leather jacket, muscle T-shirt and a tattoo. The dolls are the brainchild of New Yorker Stephanie Prod. The 36-year-old came up with the idea while writing her Masters thesis on the under-representation of lesbians in popular culture.

The DYKEdoll figures will sell for $49.95 (about £28) each. But only people over 21 can buy the full package priced at $65 (£37 It includes accessories such as tiny leather harnesses and miniature vibrators. Bobbie – or Bobbie Rockabilly DYKEdoll, to give her full title – will launch on the dykedolls.com website along with her friends, Doc Holliday and Diesel Dyke.

Anglican Conciliarity

Anglican Conciliarity
read it all (PDF file)

Any attempt to move the Anglican Communion to acceptance of a central, ‘monarchical’ authority with the power to make decisions that would be binding on the member churches is doomed to failure. The vocation of Anglicanism lies in its distinctive approach to questions of authority where primacy, collegiality and conciliarity all have their integrity and are interrelated and mutually constrained.

However, this does not mean that the Communion can never have more than moral authority for its members. Conciliarity that lacks mandatory authority nevertheless has the potential to develop forms of mutual obligation (protocols of consultation, leading to common action or perhaps restraint, together with the sanctions that would apply in circumstances where they are not observed) that are intended to promote the common good. The common good of the Anglican Communion should be seen in ecclesiological and missiological terms, i.e. as the conditions that are required for the Communion as a whole and its member churches to grow in the four dimensions of the Church (unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity) and to carry out the mission of the gospel in the world. However, the common good of the Communion would need to be set within the context of the common good of the whole Church of Christ – which means that ecumenical considerations would also be taken seriously.

Such protocols may be freely accepted by the constituent bodies, following their own canonical processes. When so accepted they would become binding unless and until repudiated by a similar canonical process. A majority (threshold to be agreed) of the provinces may insist that membership of the Communion requires acceptance and observance of these protocols. Presumably, the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury would be required before this condition could be implemented.

Conciliarity presupposes communion. Communion (koinonia) is a multi-faceted, dynamic and graduated reality that expresses and sustains the nature of the Church as the Body of Christ. The communion of the Anglican Communion goes well beyond the baptismal communion that pertains (e.g.) between Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Communion between Anglican provinces involves the interchangeability of ministries and therefore of Eucharists (any impairment of this can only be regarded as a temporary anomaly).

[Listening to: One Arm Steve – Widespread Panic – ‘Til The Medicine Takes (3:26)]

Anglican Conciliarity read it all

Anglican Conciliarity

read it all (PDF file)

Any attempt to move the Anglican Communion to acceptance of a central, ‘monarchical’ authority with the power to make decisions that would be binding on the member churches is doomed to failure. The vocation of Anglicanism lies in its distinctive approach to questions of authority where primacy, collegiality and conciliarity all have their integrity and are interrelated and mutually constrained.

However, this does not mean that the Communion can never have more than moral authority for its members. Conciliarity that lacks mandatory authority nevertheless has the potential to develop forms of mutual obligation (protocols of consultation, leading to common action or perhaps restraint, together with the sanctions that would apply in circumstances where they are not observed) that are intended to promote the common good. The common good of the Anglican Communion should be seen in ecclesiological and missiological terms, i.e. as the conditions that are required for the Communion as a whole and its member churches to grow in the four dimensions of the Church (unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity) and to carry out the mission of the gospel in the world. However, the common good of the Communion would need to be set within the context of the common good of the whole Church of Christ – which means that ecumenical considerations would also be taken seriously.

Such protocols may be freely accepted by the constituent bodies, following their own canonical processes. When so accepted they would become binding unless and until repudiated by a similar canonical process. A majority (threshold to be agreed) of the provinces may insist that membership of the Communion requires acceptance and observance of these protocols. Presumably, the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury would be required before this condition could be implemented.

Conciliarity presupposes communion. Communion (koinonia) is a multi-faceted, dynamic and graduated reality that expresses and sustains the nature of the Church as the Body of Christ. The communion of the Anglican Communion goes well beyond the baptismal communion that pertains (e.g.) between Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Communion between Anglican provinces involves the interchangeability of ministries and therefore of Eucharists (any impairment of this can only be regarded as a temporary anomaly).

[Listening to: One Arm Steve – Widespread Panic – ‘Til The Medicine Takes (3:26)]

Statement from the Archbishop of

Statement from the Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda

The Rt Revd Evans Kisekka, the Bishop of Luweero Diocese, has my full blessing and support in receiving the clergy from St James Church, Newport Beach, and All Saints’ Church, Long Beach, California, USA. These clergy are canonically resident in the Luweero Diocese and are priests and deacons in good standing of the Church of Uganda.

On 20 November 2003, the House of Bishops of the Church of the Province of Uganda (Anglican) made the following resolutions:

“The Church of the Province of Uganda (Anglican) cuts her relationship and Communion with the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) on their resolution and consequent action of consecrating and enthroning an openly confessed homosexual Gene Robinson as the Bishop of New Hampshire Diocese in the Anglican Communion; and with any other Province that shall follow suit.”

“Mindful of the fact that there are a number of dioceses, parishes and congregations in the ECUSA, which are opposed to the resolution and action taken by their convention and are determined to remain faithful to the teaching of scripture on human sexuality, to those dear brothers and sisters, we extend our solidarity with them and assure them of our continued prayers.”

[Listening to: Everything You Want – Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want (4:17)]

Presiding Bishop conveys concern about

Presiding Bishop conveys concern about pastoral boundaries, affirms LA bishop’s ministry of reconciliation

by Bob Williams

From the Episcopal News Service (ENS) of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA)

Emphasizing the Anglican Primates’ agreement that “bishops are to respect the boundaries of one another’s dioceses and provinces,” the Presiding Bishop of ECUSA, the Most Revd Frank T Griswold, today sent a letter of concern to the Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda, the Most Revd Henry L Orombi, after a third Southern California congregation yesterday aligned with the Ugandan Diocese of Luweero.

Presiding Bishop Griswold also issued the following statement to media:

“I am saddened by the action of clergy and members of three congregations in the Diocese of Los Angeles and their desire to separate themselves from the life of the Episcopal Church. I know how assiduously Bishop Bruno has sought to be a minister of reconciliation and a pastor to those of all views within the life of the Diocese of Los Angeles and its 147 diverse congregations.

[Listening to: Everything You Want – Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want (4:17)]
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