News Updates

News Updates

June 2010

• Church of Mexico Adopts Anglican Covenant

  The Anglican Church of Mexico, which was part of the Episcopal Church until 1995, has become the first province to adopt the Anglican Covenant.

  Posted on June 30, 2010

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• Diocese of Albany Endorses Covenant

  The Diocese of Albany’s annual convention endorsed the Anglican Communion Covenant in a 314-76 vote June 12.

  Posted on June 29, 2010

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• guest column: Soundings in Anglican Ecclesiology

  It is arguably true that there has never been a time in the history of what we now call Anglicanism that was essentially stable and free from serious conflict.

  Posted on June 25, 2010

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• Megaparish affirms the Covenant

  The vestry of St. Martin’s Church in Houston, Texas — the largest congregation in the Episcopal Church — unanimously affirmed the Anglican Communion Covenant on June 15.

  Posted on June 23, 2010

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• Blogging from Canterbury

  Leigh Edwards, The Living Church’s first junior fellow, is in Canterbury attending a two-week conference for young seminarians and clergy. This is one of her posts on what she is experiencing and learning.

  Posted on June 21, 2010

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• Kenneth Kearon Defends Archbishop’s Decisions

  “To remove people from representative functions [within the Anglican Communion] is not to be [exclusive],” the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, told the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council in a morning session June 18.

  Posted on June 18, 2010

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• Canadian Synod Fights Off Anxiety

  Sometimes, amid irreverent riffs, a comedian becomes a court jester. During the banquet at the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod, comedian Bill Carr diagnosed the synod as afflicted by Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

  Posted on June 18, 2010

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• APLM Decries ‘Unitary Hierarchical Control’

  Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Music has issued a statement condemning the proposed Anglican Covenant as an instrument of hierarchical control and accusing the Archbishop of Canterbury of favoring a Roman Catholic model of Church governance.

  Posted on June 17, 2010

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• Communion Tensions Echo at Executive Council (corrected)

  The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council began its spring meeting on June 16 by focusing on the church as a missionary society fostering both national and international partnerships, even amid inter-Anglican tensions.

  Posted on June 17, 2010

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• Bishop Harris Recovering from Stroke

  The Diocese of Massachusetts has reported that the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris has undergone a stroke. The June issue of the diocese’s Episcopal E-News said the 80-year-old bishop had spent a weekend in a hospital after falling at her home.

  Posted on June 16, 2010

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