Hope everyone enjoys their Independence Day.
Beware of impostors...real Anglicans in the U.S. belong to the Episcopal Church.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
If You Build It They Will Come
In a recent post on Off-Topic Allowed I spoke about how to begin to rebuild the Anglican Communion. It is imperative that we begin, if not just as was laid out in that post then something similar and something very, very soon. The other thing I would suggest is that the Episcopal Church subsidizes the entire conference, that will help those less fortunate and will demonstrate both our sincerity and our devotion.
One of the major outcomes will be a renewed interest in the Anglican Church (the only Real Anglicans in the United States belong to the Episcopal Church) throughout the world. See, we do not need to worry about "our numbers". We are not GAFCON/FCA/AMiA/AMiE/CANA/and all the other alphabet soup, we are the real Anglican Communion dedicated to demonstrating throughout the world that there Christ is alive and well and bringing the gospel message to everyone in the world. We are not exclusive, we are not bound by numbers, we are not hate-based, we are not condemning. We are resoundingly based in the gospel, both the two Great Commandments and Matthew 25 for starters. We care about people not numbers and we care about including everyone and not excluding anyone. We are about a Eucharistic centered, prayer based, Christ centered world-wide work that celebrates our differences and rejoices in our Christ-centeredness. We take seriously, in fact one of our main goals is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, elevate the poor, share all our abundant resources joyfully and freely excluding no one and lifting every single person up both one at a time and collectively.
In this new Anglican Communion we need to demonstrate that we care less about what our neighbor is or is not doing and we focus on our relationship with God and our relationship with our neighbor. That is what matters and that is what we work on. When we share the peace we forgive our brothers and sisters because Christ has taught us to do that and we receive communion with everyone.
Yes, fellow Anglicans, "if you build it they will most assuredly come."
One of the major outcomes will be a renewed interest in the Anglican Church (the only Real Anglicans in the United States belong to the Episcopal Church) throughout the world. See, we do not need to worry about "our numbers". We are not GAFCON/FCA/AMiA/AMiE/CANA/and all the other alphabet soup, we are the real Anglican Communion dedicated to demonstrating throughout the world that there Christ is alive and well and bringing the gospel message to everyone in the world. We are not exclusive, we are not bound by numbers, we are not hate-based, we are not condemning. We are resoundingly based in the gospel, both the two Great Commandments and Matthew 25 for starters. We care about people not numbers and we care about including everyone and not excluding anyone. We are about a Eucharistic centered, prayer based, Christ centered world-wide work that celebrates our differences and rejoices in our Christ-centeredness. We take seriously, in fact one of our main goals is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, elevate the poor, share all our abundant resources joyfully and freely excluding no one and lifting every single person up both one at a time and collectively.
In this new Anglican Communion we need to demonstrate that we care less about what our neighbor is or is not doing and we focus on our relationship with God and our relationship with our neighbor. That is what matters and that is what we work on. When we share the peace we forgive our brothers and sisters because Christ has taught us to do that and we receive communion with everyone.
Yes, fellow Anglicans, "if you build it they will most assuredly come."
Sunday, June 26, 2011
SPREADing the Manure
There is a "new" name amongst the Conelonialists, Charles Raven. His little slice of heaven is called SPREAD - yes and acronym for The Society for the Propagation of Reformed Evangelical Anglican Doctrine . And, I would believe that Charles Raven is the chief spreader. The Head Spread, if you will. He, like so many of his brethren are one sided and his argumentation is based on "My way or the highway". Where this guy came from I am not sure nor who he really is but I know where he is going. Let me SPREAD some information:
The Society is dedicated to the preservation and propagation of the reformed Christian faith as classically expressed in the Anglican Formularies, the Thirty-nine Articles, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the Ordinal.Here is his tie to the Conelonialists:
In 1999 the then diocesan bishop publicly disowned Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference which reaffirmed biblical teaching on sexuality. As a result St John’s, under Charles’ leadership, broke fellowship with the bishop as a matter of biblical conscience and in 2002 it became necessary to continue as a self funded mission congregation outside the official structures of the Church of England, now known as Christ Church Wyre Forest.
And renowned writer and great theologian that he is he has come up with this little gem almost ALL BY HIMSELF.
Events between the 1998 and 2008 Lambeth Conferences demonstrate decisively that the Communion's present "instruments of unity", including the See of Canterbury itself, are no longer fit for purpose when confronted with deep theological confusion in which evil is held out as good and good as evil. A merely institutional unity not firmly rooted in the revealed truths of God's Word written is not only counterfeit but also toxic, exposing the whole Communion to the false teaching and immorality absorbed by the Western Churches.
As I wrote earlier, we are headed down a one-way road that ends with a train wreck. The AMiE will turn out the current Church of England and "recreate itself anew". If the Archbishop of Canterbury does not start with eliminating these cancers from the body of the Anglican Communion the Communion will die -- at least ass we know it.
I have been harping on this very issue for months and months to no avail. If you, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his henchmen do not get with the program pretty damn quick the Archbishop of Canterbury is going to be the Archbishop of weareallburied.
As to our formal SPREADERS, you will be outed along with your Latimer Trust and every other group that supports your hatred and spews your lies.
Still more to come!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
When Is A Poke In the Eye -- Just A Poke In the Eye?
Well folks, the report from the SCCC is released and can be found at The Lead. Thanks to Jim Naughton for all his labor and intense pressure brought to bear on the Executive Council to have the report released. This document is a long, thoughtful and precise examination of the impact of the Anglican Covenant on the Constitutions and Canons of the Episcopal Church in he United States of America. I sure hope it makes everyone feel better.
The Anglican Covenant was borne out of a combination of hate by the Global South Primates and a lustful desire for power that only can be satisfied by being the absolute ruler. In this case, Robert Duncan, John David Schofield, Jack Iker, Peter Jensen, Peter Akinola, Micael Nazir-Ali, Henri Luke Orombi and several others want to play "god". They have placed scripture as the end all and be all AND have positioned themselves as the only true doctors of the church that not only can understand scripture but can interpret it as well!
What do they hate? They hate any and all LGBT persons who have been called by our Savior to be included in the full life of the church. They hate women, especially those in powerful positions such as priest, bishops and presiding bishops. These primates and would be pretenders to the throne will not even take communion with the Presiding Bishop of our Episcopal Church.
The Windsor Report gave the Global South the opportunity to band together to steal property from the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church of Canada, and soon, the Church of England. While they were doing that, providing a safe haven for thieves and deposed bishops and priests, we were distracted by the wonderful Archbishop of Canterbury telling us we had violated the Windsor Report and slapping our wrists. And we, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America took it. We wrung our hands and tried to figure out how to play nice because that is what everyone asked us to do and we are the good child and follow our parents command.
Then the Global South/FCA and all the alphabet soup came up with this Anglican Covenant thingy. We talked about and through it for four iterations. All the while GAFCON and the Jerusalem Document was formed/written, the ACNA Province was formed and made Robert Duncan a provincial ruler -- yep, a deposed bishop gets to play with the big boys while we were wrestling with the iterations of the Anglican Covenant.
In the next few weeks and months were are going to continue the debate over the adoption of this silly piece of paper in hopes that we can hold the Anglican Communion together. Guess what? The Global south does not care one whit about this document or the Anglican Communion. They have called for another GAFCON conference with a pre-conference to be held in New York (how is that for a slap in the face/). The FCA has set up shop calling themselves the AMiE so that they can be legitimized in the eyes of the Anglican Communion by being -- what else but Anglican. They have also sent Martyn Minns to England to set up shop as well.
Hey, but we have this lengthy, well written, beautiful piece of work that has provided the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with a way to review and analyze the Anglican Covenant especially as it impacts our Constitutions and Canons. We, collectively have spent more time on this one document throughout the Episcopal Church than we have spent on Episcopal Relief and Development in the last three years. More time on the Anglican Communion than on seeking out ways to enforce the depositions of those who have stolen property from the four diocese. We have spent more time on this document than on almost anything you can name. And for what? Do you think the Anglican Communion is going to last more than a few years? At least as we know it?
Once again we have spent more time on trying to figure out why we got poked in the eye with a sharp stick than is in our wildest imaginations even necessary. The Anglican Covenant, the poke in the eye, is just that, a poke in the eye.
Have we had enough time reacting to all the junk that has been thrown at us? It is time to make some bold statements and move forward. Give the Global South something to really talk and worry about, they love numbers -- we love people -- they love buildings and cash -- we love Christ and the bringing His message to the world. Can the Executive Council and the rest of the elite structure of our church stop being the patsie and start leading in such a way that those on the outside will want to come in to the inside. Our tent is big -- we know that. Let's by not only words but by actions show the world we belong to Christ and not to some Anglican Covenant.
The Anglican Covenant was borne out of a combination of hate by the Global South Primates and a lustful desire for power that only can be satisfied by being the absolute ruler. In this case, Robert Duncan, John David Schofield, Jack Iker, Peter Jensen, Peter Akinola, Micael Nazir-Ali, Henri Luke Orombi and several others want to play "god". They have placed scripture as the end all and be all AND have positioned themselves as the only true doctors of the church that not only can understand scripture but can interpret it as well!
What do they hate? They hate any and all LGBT persons who have been called by our Savior to be included in the full life of the church. They hate women, especially those in powerful positions such as priest, bishops and presiding bishops. These primates and would be pretenders to the throne will not even take communion with the Presiding Bishop of our Episcopal Church.
The Windsor Report gave the Global South the opportunity to band together to steal property from the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church of Canada, and soon, the Church of England. While they were doing that, providing a safe haven for thieves and deposed bishops and priests, we were distracted by the wonderful Archbishop of Canterbury telling us we had violated the Windsor Report and slapping our wrists. And we, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America took it. We wrung our hands and tried to figure out how to play nice because that is what everyone asked us to do and we are the good child and follow our parents command.
Then the Global South/FCA and all the alphabet soup came up with this Anglican Covenant thingy. We talked about and through it for four iterations. All the while GAFCON and the Jerusalem Document was formed/written, the ACNA Province was formed and made Robert Duncan a provincial ruler -- yep, a deposed bishop gets to play with the big boys while we were wrestling with the iterations of the Anglican Covenant.
In the next few weeks and months were are going to continue the debate over the adoption of this silly piece of paper in hopes that we can hold the Anglican Communion together. Guess what? The Global south does not care one whit about this document or the Anglican Communion. They have called for another GAFCON conference with a pre-conference to be held in New York (how is that for a slap in the face/). The FCA has set up shop calling themselves the AMiE so that they can be legitimized in the eyes of the Anglican Communion by being -- what else but Anglican. They have also sent Martyn Minns to England to set up shop as well.
Hey, but we have this lengthy, well written, beautiful piece of work that has provided the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with a way to review and analyze the Anglican Covenant especially as it impacts our Constitutions and Canons. We, collectively have spent more time on this one document throughout the Episcopal Church than we have spent on Episcopal Relief and Development in the last three years. More time on the Anglican Communion than on seeking out ways to enforce the depositions of those who have stolen property from the four diocese. We have spent more time on this document than on almost anything you can name. And for what? Do you think the Anglican Communion is going to last more than a few years? At least as we know it?
Once again we have spent more time on trying to figure out why we got poked in the eye with a sharp stick than is in our wildest imaginations even necessary. The Anglican Covenant, the poke in the eye, is just that, a poke in the eye.
Have we had enough time reacting to all the junk that has been thrown at us? It is time to make some bold statements and move forward. Give the Global South something to really talk and worry about, they love numbers -- we love people -- they love buildings and cash -- we love Christ and the bringing His message to the world. Can the Executive Council and the rest of the elite structure of our church stop being the patsie and start leading in such a way that those on the outside will want to come in to the inside. Our tent is big -- we know that. Let's by not only words but by actions show the world we belong to Christ and not to some Anglican Covenant.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
It Is Too Late -- At Least For Some
Well, England is about to be invaded! By whom you ask? By those who would pretend to be Anglican and need a basis for claiming as such. I have preached about this for almost all the time I have been blogging and now we are on the cusp of a New Anglican Communion, one that does not involve the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in fact does not involve the Church of England (as we know it) at all.
A new work is being performed by the global south/GAFCON/Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
Here is the beginning of the end:
The Anglican Mission in England (AMIE) held its inaugural event on Wednesday June 22 during an evangelical ministers’ conference in central London.
AMIE has been established as a society within the Church of England dedicated to the conversion of England and biblical church planting. There is a steering committee and a panel of bishops. The bishops aim to provide effective oversight in collaboration with senior clergy.
Yep, that which began in America and was fostered by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a crazy attempt to appease the Conelonialists has now come back to bite ++Rowan in of all places -- England!
And why? Well the answer is fund in the following simple statement:
The AMIE will continue to encourage church planting and all forms of Christian witness in accord with the Jerusalem Statement of the GAFCON Conference in June 2008.
According to the Jerusalem Declaration the Archbishop of Canterbury is an antiquated idea that has become superfluous to the GAFCON congregations. So, Martyn Minns is in and Rowan Williams is out.
What this group needs desperately, is a claim to English succession. Planting the AMiE will give them that. John David Schofield has said all along he will keep the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin close to the Anglican Communion. Now we know what he meant.
In addition, they really do not need much out of England other than a few throwback bishops, preferably those that have been deposed so they will all look alike. And, here is the kicker, I have to admit I was incredibly and devastatingly wrong about Mr. Robert Duncan. I have said for years that he was pissed that a woman go t the job he so richly deserved and that he was out for his own province. Wrong, he is out for his own Communion! Why have a diocese when one can have a province and why have a province when one can have a communion.
So, let's get back to arguing about the Anglican Covenant so that we do not have to worry about this. If we do not feel stupid yet, just wait a little bit longer, it will become clearer in just a few months.
Archbishop Rowan Williams, I will ask you a question someone once asked me, "Got your resume up to date?"
A new work is being performed by the global south/GAFCON/Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
Here is the beginning of the end:
The Anglican Mission in England (AMIE) held its inaugural event on Wednesday June 22 during an evangelical ministers’ conference in central London.
AMIE has been established as a society within the Church of England dedicated to the conversion of England and biblical church planting. There is a steering committee and a panel of bishops. The bishops aim to provide effective oversight in collaboration with senior clergy.
Yep, that which began in America and was fostered by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a crazy attempt to appease the Conelonialists has now come back to bite ++Rowan in of all places -- England!
And why? Well the answer is fund in the following simple statement:
The AMIE will continue to encourage church planting and all forms of Christian witness in accord with the Jerusalem Statement of the GAFCON Conference in June 2008.
According to the Jerusalem Declaration the Archbishop of Canterbury is an antiquated idea that has become superfluous to the GAFCON congregations. So, Martyn Minns is in and Rowan Williams is out.
What this group needs desperately, is a claim to English succession. Planting the AMiE will give them that. John David Schofield has said all along he will keep the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin close to the Anglican Communion. Now we know what he meant.
In addition, they really do not need much out of England other than a few throwback bishops, preferably those that have been deposed so they will all look alike. And, here is the kicker, I have to admit I was incredibly and devastatingly wrong about Mr. Robert Duncan. I have said for years that he was pissed that a woman go t the job he so richly deserved and that he was out for his own province. Wrong, he is out for his own Communion! Why have a diocese when one can have a province and why have a province when one can have a communion.
So, let's get back to arguing about the Anglican Covenant so that we do not have to worry about this. If we do not feel stupid yet, just wait a little bit longer, it will become clearer in just a few months.
Archbishop Rowan Williams, I will ask you a question someone once asked me, "Got your resume up to date?"
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
A Call To Disband the Communion Partners
There is a subversive group within the Episcopal Church in the United States designed to work from within to destroy the Episcopal Church. For those of you who do not know it, it refers to itself as the Communion Partners. In the interest of transparency, there are at least four former rectors from the diocese of San Joaquin that were mentored by Mr. John David Schofield. One of those authored the constitutional revisions that the Conelonialists used to split from the Episcopal Church of the United States. The interesting thing (at least one) is that these folks will not step up to the plate and declare their allegiance to the Global South. They would rather pretend (for the definition of pretend please ask Leonardo Ricardo, he can fill you in) they are "working within" the confines of the Episcopal Church for the betterment of the Episcopal Church. But let's look at their actions as based on their own commitments.
What follows is a direct quote from the CP website (in black) and the editorial comments (in blue).
Purpose:
Communion Partners
- provide for those concerned a visible link to the Anglican Communion
Many within our dioceses and in congregations in other dioceses seek to be assured of their connection to the Anglican Communion. Traditionally, this has been understood in terms of bishop-to-bishop relationships. Communion Partners fleshes out this connection in a significant and symbolic way.
Again, the only real Anglicans in the United States are represented by the Presiding Bishop. She, has and continues to reassure the entire Episcopal community within the United states that we are "connected". I am unclear about this concept of "bishop to bishop" since each province is represented by the primate of that province. Our basic relationship within the Anglican Communion is Primate to Primate. The Communion partners have violated this concept on a number of occasions including a surreptitious meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury that was never sanctioned by our Presiding Bishop.
- provide fellowship, support and a forum for mutual concerns between bishops
The Communion Partner bishops share many concerns about the Anglican Communion and its future and look to work together with Primates and Bishops from the wider Communion. In addition, we believe we all have need of mutual encouragement, prayer, and reassurance. The Communion Partners will be a forum for these kinds of relationships.
This is not their role. The role of a bishop is to provide pastoral care to their diocese. The role of the primates is to discuss Anglican Communion relationships. What pride! What ambition! Why do the diocese for which these power hungry folks come from allow them the time to do that. I bet these bishops are the same ones that tell their diocese that they do not have the time to meet with each church on a yearly basis.
- provide a partnership to work toward the Anglican Covenant and according to Windsor Principles
The Communion Partner bishops will work together according to the principles outlined in the Windsor Report and seek a comprehensive Anglican Covenant at the Lambeth Conference and beyond.
Once again, did the Presiding Bishop abdicate her role and did the deputies to convention abdicate their role so that this group that "clearly represents the majority of the Episcopal Church" could fill in for them?
This ragtag spawn of John David Schofield should be disbanded immediately. We do not need a bunch of cowards to weak to declare their allegiance to the Global South and too lustful of power and too much like their "friends" in Fort Worth and Pittsburgh and San Joaquin to really be a part of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Communion Partners please do not go away angry, just go away.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Let's Give The Anglican Covenant All The Time It Deserves
The Anglican Covenant was born out of a combination of pure hate and absolute lust.
Those who put forth the covenant, primarily the Global South better known as Conelonialists, determined a long time ago to kill the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. As far as I can tell, the Anglican Church of Canada runs a real close second but the primary goal was/is to eliminate the Episcopal Church of the United States. This group hates women, as does little Bobby Duncan and big old "Texas" Jack Iker and rolly polly John David Schofield. It hates the LGBT community and has enlisted not only many unwitting laity from the United States but has found an incredibly strong financial partner in the Institute for Religion and Democracy. But make no mistake, the goal since before the year 2000, was to put the Episcopal Church out of business. But the ultimate result is for this group of primates, Orombi, Akinola, Duncan, Jensen, Venables, et al, is to either completely take over the Anglican Communion OR to form a new Anglican Communion and take it over. In either case, and I believe they do not care which of these two results is the final one, they just want to be the power. Yes, it is lust, but it is lusting for power.
This group of primates, the Conelonialists, lust for power. Therein may be the reason why they are so intent on distracting everyone by use (or abuse) of the LGBT community. Read their documents from the Chapman Memo to the Jerusalem Declaration to everything in between. They are a lustful bunch hell bent on taking all the power they can get and using it for their own advantage. They accuse everyone else of carnal sins that violate the biblical commandments when all along it is they who are the real violators. Their lust for power consumes them all and they will not stop until they have what they want. Talk about out of control human beings, wow! Read their statements and see if this is not a perfect match!
And, the Archbishop of Canterbury is knee deep in this as well, but for a slightly different reason. He has been chosen by the Crown to lead the Church of England and by definition, the Anglican Communion. Why does he do what he does, generally violating his own personal faith and principles to get there? Because of power! He has been "chosen by the crown" (read that by God) to lead his community and he dare not let it slip away. Read the Archbishops books if you think it does not violate his personal beliefs. His lust for power is one in holding the Communion together at all costs. He does not want to be the Archbishop that under his watch witnessed the destruction of the Anglican empire! So he balances everyone against the middle. See his latest antics if you do not believe that, he is holding the communion together at all costs, including his own soul. He cannot afford to have primates taking his power and wielding it like a sword cutting off "errant" provinces heads at a moments notice and on a whim. No, no, no, that just will never do. It is so messy and he can do so much better of a job. He does not want a split communion even though by definition the Conelonialists cannot be Anglican without him.
So you see, this covenant is something no one should even spend a moments worth of time on since it is born out of hatred and lsut and will serve no good no matter how one has "wrapped the present". But, we (as well as every other province) struggles to come to grips with a stupid, worthless document that will serve no one any good at all. In the meantime, we watch as the Conelonialists continue their lustful charge for more power. They set up offices in England, the call for another GAFCON conference and we fiddle while Rome burns. If we do not snap out of this pretty quick we will deserve exactly what we get.
Those who put forth the covenant, primarily the Global South better known as Conelonialists, determined a long time ago to kill the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. As far as I can tell, the Anglican Church of Canada runs a real close second but the primary goal was/is to eliminate the Episcopal Church of the United States. This group hates women, as does little Bobby Duncan and big old "Texas" Jack Iker and rolly polly John David Schofield. It hates the LGBT community and has enlisted not only many unwitting laity from the United States but has found an incredibly strong financial partner in the Institute for Religion and Democracy. But make no mistake, the goal since before the year 2000, was to put the Episcopal Church out of business. But the ultimate result is for this group of primates, Orombi, Akinola, Duncan, Jensen, Venables, et al, is to either completely take over the Anglican Communion OR to form a new Anglican Communion and take it over. In either case, and I believe they do not care which of these two results is the final one, they just want to be the power. Yes, it is lust, but it is lusting for power.
This group of primates, the Conelonialists, lust for power. Therein may be the reason why they are so intent on distracting everyone by use (or abuse) of the LGBT community. Read their documents from the Chapman Memo to the Jerusalem Declaration to everything in between. They are a lustful bunch hell bent on taking all the power they can get and using it for their own advantage. They accuse everyone else of carnal sins that violate the biblical commandments when all along it is they who are the real violators. Their lust for power consumes them all and they will not stop until they have what they want. Talk about out of control human beings, wow! Read their statements and see if this is not a perfect match!
And, the Archbishop of Canterbury is knee deep in this as well, but for a slightly different reason. He has been chosen by the Crown to lead the Church of England and by definition, the Anglican Communion. Why does he do what he does, generally violating his own personal faith and principles to get there? Because of power! He has been "chosen by the crown" (read that by God) to lead his community and he dare not let it slip away. Read the Archbishops books if you think it does not violate his personal beliefs. His lust for power is one in holding the Communion together at all costs. He does not want to be the Archbishop that under his watch witnessed the destruction of the Anglican empire! So he balances everyone against the middle. See his latest antics if you do not believe that, he is holding the communion together at all costs, including his own soul. He cannot afford to have primates taking his power and wielding it like a sword cutting off "errant" provinces heads at a moments notice and on a whim. No, no, no, that just will never do. It is so messy and he can do so much better of a job. He does not want a split communion even though by definition the Conelonialists cannot be Anglican without him.
So you see, this covenant is something no one should even spend a moments worth of time on since it is born out of hatred and lsut and will serve no good no matter how one has "wrapped the present". But, we (as well as every other province) struggles to come to grips with a stupid, worthless document that will serve no one any good at all. In the meantime, we watch as the Conelonialists continue their lustful charge for more power. They set up offices in England, the call for another GAFCON conference and we fiddle while Rome burns. If we do not snap out of this pretty quick we will deserve exactly what we get.
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