Month: January 2026
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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…