A Living Text.
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The Birth of a Stream II
One account of what occurred at Church of the Resurrection under Rev. Richard Winkler comes from Leanne Payne who was there as a young student in the early 1960’s. Payne went on to propagate healing prayer, writing books and taking up the torch from Agnes Sanford. Payne was influential at Wheaton and later established Pastoral…
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The Birth of a Stream
The Anglican Church in North America frequently mentions that it is a three-streams church, with one of those streams being the charismatic (or Pentecostal, or “Spirit” in the formulation “Scripture, Sacrament, Spirit”). When did the charismatic “stream” rise in the life of the Episcopal Church, USA? Although Dennis J. Bennett is frequently mentioned as the…
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AMiA Collapse 15
The AMiA–or at least its leadership–were free of Rwanda, but they were in no man’s land. Bishop Murphy had misjudged the situation badly. He was not ready to go with a landing place for AMiA outside of Rwanda, so there must have been a lot of work on trying to find one ASAP. He had…
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A look inside the Anglican Church in Rwanda
In contrast to many naive Western thoughts about the state of the church in Rwanda, Adriaan Verwijs provided his account of time spent there in the Cairo Journal of Theology in 2015. His article is Growing in Christ on African Soil: Thoughts on Enhancing the Contextualization of Discipleship Training in Rwanda and I will quote…
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Inside a Heated Dispute Between Bishop Gasatura and Archbishop Mbanda
A November 2020 letter from The Rt Rev. Nathan Gasatura, Bishop of the Diocese of Butare in Rwanda to Archbishop and current GAC Chairman Laurent Mbanda and the other Rwandan bishops reveals another deep conflict apparently fostered by Mbanda. Bishop Nathan says he was “deeply bruised and wounded.” He says that Mbanda has “…shown extreme…
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A Godly Admonition from 2020
The court cases between Bishop Dobbs and Bishop Jones continue to offer a look behind the curtains at the reality of the ACNA College of Bishops. Filings from August 2, 2026 have revealed a Godly Admonition issued by Archbishop Beach on November 12, 2020. The text follows. Introductory Comments November 12, 2020The charges and allegations…
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Complaints made against Archbishop Beach, Archbishop Wood, Bishop Sutton and Bishop Atwood
The Rev. Lance M. Lormand has stated on X that chaplains have filed complaints with the ACNA Director of Safeguarding alleging that: Foley Beach, Ray Sutton, and Steve Wood colluded, conspired, aided, and abetted Derek Jones’ abuse of power. A new complaint was submitted against every single one of them last week for: 1. Violation…
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AMiA Collapse 14
(Continued from https://alivingtext.com/amia-collapse-interlude/. All posts are together here) My pastor emailed the letter from Archbishop Rwaje to me late on December 1, 2011. Archbishop Rwaje emailed it out as “an open letter” to all the bishops in the United States and encouraged them to send it to their network leaders. It appeared on the Stand…
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FiFNA issues a Response to the Abuja Affirmation
Forward in Faith North America has issued a Response to the Abuja Affirmation. It rejects the confessional approach of many Reformed Anglicans: “To our dearly beloved brethren, the work of resetting and restoring the Communion must continue lest we become an unrooted confessional body that will melt away like a sand rope, grow into a…
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ACNA College of Bishops discussed Holy Orders
Today, Bishop Dobbs addressed recent discussions among the ACNA bishops on the subject of Holy Orders. I did reference, if my memory serves me correctly, at our last office hours, that the College is committed to creating space for constructive dialogue and conversation over women’s orders—both inside the College amongst ourselves as bishops, and in…