A Living Text.
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AMiA Collapse 8
Sometime around the Presbyter’s Retreat in Pawley’s Island there was a similar meeting of AMiA clergy in Little Rock where Bishop Murphy again presented the Mission Society proposal. Responses to the Murphy/Donlon/Kolini proposals were immediate, suggesting constant communication between American clergy and Rwanda. I cannot prove it, but I strongly suspect Bishop Laurent Mbanda was…
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AMiA Collapse 7
(Picking back up from part 6) AMiA leadership had met with the Rwandan House of Bishops in September 2011 and now they would begin to road test the new Missionary Society concept to the clergy in their churches. On October 25th there was a Presbyter’s Retreat in Pawley’s Island. My own clergy from Washington D.C.…
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Change Coming to the ACNA’s Convocation of the West
The ACNA is a confusing confederation of tribes with a variety of governance structures and theological beliefs. One of these structures is the Convocation of the West. Its history is given here: The Diocese of the West was founded in 1998 as part of the Anglican Province of America (APA), a Continuing Anglican church in the Anglo-Catholic…
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Bishop Stewart Ruch’s Actions in Light of the ACNA’s Ordinal
Where does the buck stop in the ACNA? Is anyone responsible for anything or do clergy get to say, “mistakes were made” and leave a trail of destruction in their wake? The ACNA has a Constitution, and in Article I, Declaration 6 says: We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the…
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ACNA Conclave 2024
ACNA’s method of choosing Archbishops is deliberately hidden from public scrutiny, but bits and bobs of the truth still leak out because clergy love to talk about things just as much as anyone else does. Over time, we have learned how Bishop Ray Sutton was elected in 2014 before the College of Bishops had to…
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Leadership Under Scrutiny: Dean Guernsey Steps Down
Anglican Ink published a parish email from former Archbishop Beach and Roy Acord announcing the resignation of Dean Michael Guernsey of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville, Georgia. Holy Cross is the home parish for both Archbishop Beach and Bishop Frank Lyons. Dean Guernsey is the son of prominent first-generation ACNA Bishop John Guernsey. The…
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GAFCON Chairman Archbishop Laurent Mbanda’s Feud: Retired Bishops Blast GAFCON Leader Over ‘Uncanonical’ Conduct
The ACNA is not the only part of GAFCON experiencing problems at the moment. There is a major schism taking place in the usually opaque Rwandan Anglican Church, and it involves Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, who is also the head of GAFCON. Mbanda had the bishop of the Shyira Diocese, Samuel Mugisha, arrested. Mugisha’s wife, joined…
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JAFC Counters ACNA Narrative
The JAFC has published two updates countering the prevailing narrative from the ACNA side. First, they vigorously attack the individual behind the open letter from victims published by Anglican Ink. “Everything points to one particular chaplain as the author of this letter – or someone writing it on his behalf,” explains Archdeacon Kenneth Gillespie. As…
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AMiA vs. ACNA
There were always tensions between the AMiA and the ACNA, simmering below the surface. Ross Lindsay is an attorney and canon lawyer who, along with Kevin Donlon, advised Chuck Murphy inside the AMiA. He wrote a book called Out of Africa: The Breakaway Anglican Churches A Movement with a Mission and it allows us to…
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Archbishop Duncan: It’s not about Holy Orders!
Archbishop Emeritus Duncan has weighed in via a letter released by Clark Lowenfield. He goes to some length to say that the current crisis has nothing to do with Holy Orders/women’s ordination. This indicates to me that there is agitation behind the scenes on this front, or why would he feel the need to address…