Updated September 9, 2016: UPDATE FROM PHIL ASHEY: When I wrote this article last Friday, the news had not reached us that a “gay bishop” had been “outed” in the Church of England. The Right Rev. Nicholas Chamberlain, a Suffragan or Assisting Bishop, revealed to the Guardian on September 2 that he has been … Read More
20 years ago this week the American Anglican Council began! It was August, 1996 when Biblically faithful Episcopalians incorporated this non-profit to give them a place to stand in a Church that was no longer standing on the clarity and authority of God’s word. “A Place to Stand” was the statement of common … Read More
Summary: On matters of human sexuality, does the Archbishop of Canterbury believe that one must sacrifice the clarity and authority of the Bible to reach lost people? If so, he should admit it clearly and let the rest of the Communion move on. For what he will have left to share is an amputated gospel: … Read More
Once upon the time there was a bishop—an Anglican bishop—who decided that you couldn’t trust the Bible. He claimed that the Bible was not clear about human sexuality and he rejected the Christian doctrine of marriage between one man and one woman. He wrote that the Bible was not historically trustworthy, and that we … Read More
So the Archbishop of Canterbury has called for yet another meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion for October, 2017. As if this meeting could cure the wound that has been made even more incurable by his own personal failure to uphold the recommendations of the meeting he called in January of this year—failures … Read More
