News Updates

News Updates

March 2010

• St. Andrew’s Leaves S.C. Diocese

  Two days after the Bishop of South Carolina announced a ceasefire in a long-standing property dispute, another large parish took final steps in separating from the Episcopal Church.

  Posted on March 30, 2010

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• Essay: Concern for Progress

  We are now indisputably in a radically new situation. TEC as a body has determinedly, perhaps irrevocably, chosen autonomy over “communion with autonomy and accountability” (Anglican Covenant 3.1.2, quoting the Primates’ Letter from Alexandria, March 2009).

  Posted on March 29, 2010

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• Editorial: Canonically Permissible Graciousness

  On May 15 the Presiding Bishop intends to do the very thing that the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion — on which she serves — urged the Episcopal Church not to do.

  Posted on March 26, 2010

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• Essay: Trust the Communion’s Common Mind

  How should the Anglican Communion respond to the confirmation of Mary Glasspool’s election? With great care.

  Posted on March 26, 2010

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• Bishop Robinson Preaches at Cathedral of Hope

  The world’s largest gay church met the Anglican world’s most famous gay rights campaigner in Dallas March 24.

  Posted on March 26, 2010

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• Bishops Stay Busy at Camp Allen

  The House of Bishops had a busier schedule of plenary sessions this year in a spring meeting that has traditionally served as a retreat.

  Posted on March 24, 2010

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• Trinity Professor Joins Rio Grande Slate

  The Rev. Dr. Leander Harding of Trinity School for Ministry has joined the slate of nominees to become the ninth bishop of the Diocese of the Rio Grande.

  Posted on March 22, 2010

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• Wyoming Elects Casper Rector

  The Diocese of Wyoming's convention elected the Rev. John Sheridan Smylie — rector of St. Mark’s, Casper — as the diocese's ninth bishop on March 20.

  Posted on March 22, 2010

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• Communion Partners on Bishop-elect Glasspool

  Several bishops and the rectors advisory committee of Communion Partners have issued a statement expressing the coalition’s “deepest regret to our brothers and sisters in the Anglican Communion.”

  Posted on March 19, 2010

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• Books: Lessons from the Past, 100 Years Later

  While all historical moments are fraught, some moments are more equal than others, and the participants traveling to Edinburgh in 1910 by train and ship had a strong sense that they were attending an event of decisive significance.

  Posted on March 19, 2010

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