Dear Friends in Christ, ++Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and symbolic head of the Anglican Communion, has issued his most serious and straightforward diagnosis of the crisis within the Anglican Communion. He did so last week in Mexico, on the feast day of Jeremy Taylor. He cited Jeremy Taylor as an example of one … Read More
Today the Texas Supreme Court handed down decisions in the two ECUSA cases pending before it: No. 11-0265, Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. v. The Episcopal Church, et al.; and No. 11-0332, Masterson v. Diocese of Northwest Texas. In the first case, the Court sided with Bishop Iker’s Diocese by a closely split … Read More
Source: Anglican Perspective August 29, 2013 Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recently made some interesting remarks* regarding his vote against gay marriage in the UK along with his views on what the Church should do in response to changing social norms. In this week’s Anglican Perspective, Canon Phil Ashey looks at what the Bible has to … Read More
Dear Friends in Christ, As Bishop Anderson noted in his article today, there are times when grassroots efforts and perseverance can bear Godly and hope-filled fruit even in our courts. So I am happy to report today an opinion from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Eastern Division) recognizing a … Read More
The road from Dokan to Sulaymaniyah is pretty good. Even though it’s only two lanes, it’s smooth and in some places pretty straight allowing for making good time across the Kurdish territory in Iraq, at least until getting into the switchbacks of the mountains. That part of Northeastern Iraq has seen both prosperity and terrible … Read More
