Month: October 2023
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II. Jon Shuler and NAMS
Before I continue my personal involvement with the fledgling AMiA I’ll back up and take a look at someone who I never heard about until the AMiA was in a five-alarm fire six or so years later—that is Jon Shuler. Why Shuler? Well, in many ways he was one of the forerunners of the AMiA…
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I. Chance Encounters
I’m going to jump around in time a bit. We could start with Bishop Pike, the REC, the Continuum, or any number of avenues, but I will start in Idaho in 2003. I was part of an independent Reformed church that was trending towards Sovereign Grace Ministries as a place to land. The church was…
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(Recent) Anglican history
I would like to post a series of occasional bits and pieces of Anglican history since much of it is being lost to time. One part of this is my perspective on how the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) collapsed—yes I know, it still exists—because I was on the periphery of that episode and I…
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A presentment against ACNA Bishop Bill Atwood
It has come to my attention that a presentment was filed against ACNA Bishop Bill Atwood that to my knowledge has never been publicly announced. The presentment was submitted in November 2022 and accuses the bishop of “…conduct giving just probable cause for scandal or offense, including the abuse of ecclesiastical power; willful disobedience of…
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Sinkhole
A poem from a friend, brought about by the crack investigators at Apostles Anglican Church in Knoxville.
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Jerome on how the early church used violence
Jerome discusses bishops who had been Arian and then renounced their Arianism. Some people wanted them removed from being bishops, but Jerome says: Deprive the old bishops, they will say, and ordain new ones. The plan was tried. But how many whose conscience does not condemn them will allow themselves to be deprived. Particularly when…
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Islamic apocalyptic literature and Jews
In light of the pogrom that Hamas carried out on Israeli citizens and others, it is helpful to realize that Islamic apocalyptic literature is almost uniformly filled with hatred for Jews. Their versions of Left Behind, Late Great Planet Earth type books are full of evil towards the Jews. David Cook wrote Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic…
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Stewart Ruch and Nephtali Matta
Does the ACNA take violence against women seriously? I’m sure everyone in authority would say “of course” but we judge people by actions, not words. Nephtali Matta is a pastoral resident at Church of the Resurrection, Bishop Stewart Ruch’s church in Illinois. According to one of the presentments filed against Bishop Ruch: According to the…
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Another update on Bishop Todd Atkinson
A source familiar with the proceedings tells me that “…a bishop cannot “walk away” (resign his orders) during a Title IV process. The canons do not allow it, and that’s a feature not a bug. There was already an investigation and Atkinson’s case remains active before the Court for the Trial of a Bishop. Those…
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Church of the Redeemer (St. Paul) Departs UMD
Yesterday I wrote about Restoration Anglican leaving the Upper Midwest Diocese (UMD), but they were not alone in doing so. Church of the Redeemer, pastored by Paul Calvin, also left, but for a different diocese. They are going to the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh (ADP) after investigating the Diocese of the Living Word. On June…