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Ed. Note: Today is the 100th Anniversary of the celebration of Mother's Day. We hope that you had an opportunity to speak to those who have guided and shaped your life today, be that person a spouse, a friend or a parent. Happy Mother's Day! Cheryl M. Wetzel
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/may/09/sewanee-tutu-calls-end-racism-and-humanitarian-cri/
Friday, May 9, 2008
By: Joan Garrett
Sewanee, Tenn. — South African humanitarian leader Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for an end to homophobia, racism and the humanitarian crises in Africa and the Middle East this morning in Sewanee.
“Let us together transform this world hurting from wars, injustice and oppression,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who rose to fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. “Help me transform the hatred. Help me transform the homophobia. Help me transform poverty. Help me transform this world.”
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[Ed. Note: The following is a snippet from the TONIGHT Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday, May 7. We can only hope that this Commission on Ministry and Standing Committee will come to their senses and deny McGreevey's petition for priesthood. The decision truly is in their hands. This divorce at trial now in New Jersey. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
From the TONIGHT Show with Jay Leno, May 7, 2008
Boy, there's a nasty divorce going on in New Jersey between the former governor, Jim McGreevey. Remember the guy who came out and said he was gay?
McGreevey's wife is charging him with fraud for marrying her, but McGreevey, who is now studying to become an Episcopal priest, claims she not only knew he was gay, she participated with him in three-way sex with their driver.
[Ed. Note: Very few bishops is TEC were invited to GAFCON. This represents a gathering of the wider Communion, including bishops from the Global South. Fr. Wetzel and I will be in attendance. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
Posted by the Rev. Goerge Conger in Church of England Newspaper
May 8, 2008
Organizers of the June Gafcon meeting in Jerusalem report that as of April 25, 267 bishops have registered for the June meeting in Jerusalem.
Denounced as a rival gathering to the July Lambeth conference, a detailed agenda has yet to be released. Like Lambeth much of the conference will be devoted to worship and spiritual reflection.
Continue reading "267 Bishops will attend GAFCON Conference" »
[Ed. Note: This article is produced by our colleagues in the Presbyterian Church, USA. They are also facing radical, unscriptural revision of their constitution and canon law to fully embrace the gay agenda. The PCUSA will have their next General Assembly in June, 2008.]
May 8, 2008
Contact:Paul Detterman, Executive Director
Presbyterians For Renewal 502-425-4630
LOUISVILLE, KY - The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission (GAPJC) recently lifted a lower court's censure of PC(USA) minister Jane Spahr for conducting same sex commitment ceremonies that she called "marriages."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24521220>1=43001
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:25 a.m. ET, Thurs., May. 8, 2008
Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson knows he is inviting death threats by entering into a civil union with his gay partner on the eve of his church’s biggest ecclesiastical conference. And he says it is worth it, because he is doing what God asks of him.
“When your life is at stake, you learn that there are things in life that are much worse than death,” Bishop Robinson told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Thursday in New York. “That’s the great reward of being a Christian. Not living your life — that’s worse than death. And if something were to happen to me, I would know that I am doing what I discern God is calling me to do.”
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http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/5/7/central-florida-parish-diocese-reach-separation-terms
Posted on: May 7, 2008
The Diocese of Central Florida announced that terms of a separation agreement had been reached between members of Trinity Church, Vero Beach, one of the diocese’s largest parishes. In order to become enforceable the agreement must first be approved by the diocesan executive committee, the Trinity vestry and the board representing those members who wish to remain Episcopalian.
Continue reading "Central Florida Parish, Diocese Reach Separation Terms" »
[Ed. Note: Last week's American Psychiatric Assn. report banning restorative therapy for gays has prompted this story. The report and the most significant repoly, by NARTH, follows. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08050719.html
By Michael Baggot
ARLINGTON, VA, May 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Individuals who once considered themselves homosexuals but who have since left the lifestyle, often remain silent about their past life due to persecution from homosexual activists, an ABC News video revealed on Monday.
"A person may not be happy being gay, has anyone ever thought of that?" asked "David," an anonymous man who has overcome his homosexual inclinations, on ABC News.
Continue reading "Ex-Gays Afraid to Come Out for Fear of Persecution: ABC News Report" »
http://narth.com/docs/phelanreport.html
Primary website: http://narth.com/
May 5th, 2008 Posted in Homosexuality, Nature/Nurture
From NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality)
James Phelan, Ph.D., has recently completed a summary of a 300-page document that will be published in June 2008. This summary is in pdf format and can be downloaded HERE. [Summary attached at previous entry] For details of how to obtain the final document when it is published, see NARTH’s website.
[Ed Note: We have argued the statistics quoted by the National Church for years. The problem is an acutal accounting for parish and Church membership figures. This applies to our churches and those in every Province. Based on Average Sunday Attendance figures, TEC's population is somewhere between 800,000 and 1.6 million. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
Bishop David Anderson, Press Release
‘Under the Schori public mantra, we are about at the end of the churches leaving - most of those so disposed to leave have done so. In fact, she is terribly out of touch with the real world; churches are leaving on a weekly basis. Now it is true that as long as one or two people don’t leave with the rest of the parish, and the bishop can hold onto the name and the building (four walls and a janitor) then TEC will claim that they haven’t lost the congregation. The truth is that a viable church has been lost to the diocese, and down the street in a school cafeteria or gymnasium a new orthodox Anglican Church has been formed with most of the former Episcopalians, now under the care of an overseas Anglican province …
Continue reading "About those statistics on membership......." »
[Ed. Note: Archbishop Venable's message during his recent trip to Canada and the US had one consistant message: every person will have to decide with whom they will stand. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/5/6/bishop-venables-communion-breaking-up-because-nobody-is-leading
by Suzanne Gill, Director of Communications, Diocese of Fort Worth, TX
Posted on: May 6, 2008
The work of amending the Constitution and Canons of the Southern Cone in order to regularize the admission of parishes and dioceses beyond South America is about to begin, according to Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables. The Primate of the Southern Cone made a visit to the Diocese of Fort Worth for a series of meetings with clergy and lay leaders May 2-4.
Continue reading "Bishop Venables: Communion “Breaking Up Because Nobody is Leading”" »
Posted On : May 6, 2008 5:06 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO
Related Categories: Lambeth
ACNS: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/5/6/ACNS4400
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has described his private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI yesterday in the Vatican as 'friendly and informal'. They spent almost half an hour in the Pope's study discussing matters of common interest.
Continue reading "Archbishop of Canterbury - 'friendly meeting' with Pope Benedict" »
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/05/the-resilient-r.html
USA Today, May 6, 2008
By Henry G. Brinton
Despite the rumors, conservative Christianity is alive and well in the USA, still flexing its moral muscle. And that’s a good thing. For those who might cheer its demise fail to see that religious vitality is actually strengthened by the creative tension between the left and the right.
[Ed. Note: How does one Church heal from a devastating 5 year Civil War, that pitted friends against neighbors? We've watched Rwanda make progress. This is a much lesser-known conflict. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
Posted On : May 6, 2008 4:37 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO
Related Categories: Melanesia
ACNS: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/5/6/ACNS4399
From April 28 to May 1, 2008, some 90 members of the Church of Melanesia met for a four-day provincial consultation in Honiara, Solomon Islands on "Healing Past Hurts: A way forward for the Church of Melanesia in the ministry of Reconciliation and Peace-building".
Continue reading "Communiqué of the Church of Melanesia - Consultation on Reconciliation" »
-posted May 6, 2008-
Diocese of Pittsburgh e+news
Shawn Malarky, Editor
Bishops Robert Duncan and Henry Scriven confirmed today that they will be attending both the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jordan and Jerusalem in June and the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in Kent, England, this July and August.
Continue reading "Pittsburgh Bishops to Attend Lambeth Conference" »
[Ed. Note: There are "extremists" on both sides of this issue: those parishes who refuse to allow any marriages until they can do same-sex blessings; and those conservative commentators who left the Episcopal Church more than five years ago, and take pot shots at those still in TEC. Fr. Kim finds fault with Bp. Iker's decision, while we have publicly and privately begged him to reconsider. Someone must speak with authority for the orthodox "outcasts" in TEC. And, let me reassure you. Those who choose not to attend will NOT be left out in the cold. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
frkim@kimgrams.org
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: FT. WORTH: Bishop Iker to attend 2008 Lambeth Conference
Like I said the other day, I think the boycott may be collapsing - or more like shrinking. I can't imagine bishops like Akinola or Jensen going back on their decision not to attend Lambeth.
Did anyone really expect a large scale Lambeth boycott? From the get go I believed only a handful from Africa would boycott Lambeth, and they’d be left ‘out in the cold’ while all the others enjoyed the Queen’s Tea Party!
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=102180
Matt Barber - Guest Columnist -
5/5/2008 1:40:00 PM
On April 25, adult homosexual activists with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held their annual "Day of Silence" (DOS) propaganda push. During DOS, teachers and students in roughly 3,000 middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country are cynically used as culture war pawns in an effort to legitimize conventionally immoral, objectively deviant and demonstrably high-risk sexual behaviors.
[Ed. Note: The judge has not made a final determination on this issue. While the case is pending and until a decision is rendered, both the diocese and the parishes who have gone to the Southern Cone, will share joint use of the building. The diocese will have access on Sunday afternoon and 1 night a week; for funerals and marriages and they will split the times for special holidays such as Christmas and Easter. this is an interesting variation from what we have seen across the US, where one party alone occupies the building. Cheryl M. Wetzel]
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The Anglican Church of Canada
May 6, 2008 -- A Superior Court judgment released yesterday has ordered three parishes in the diocese of Niagara that voted earlier this year to affiliate themselves with the Province of the Southern Cone to share the use of their property with the diocese.
The judgment, by Madam Justice Jane Milanetti, supported the position advanced by the diocese at a previous hearing. The dissident parishes - St. George's Lowville, St. Hilda's Oakville and the Church of the Good Shepherd St. Catharines were seeking exclusive use of parish.
properties.
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