Month: September 2026
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The Birth of a Stream IV
When Bishop Pike was against heresy President Kennedy was alive. The Beatles had not landed on American shores. Vietnam was not the all-consuming maw that it would become. It was Spring 1963 in California and Bishop James A. Pike issued a Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of California warning that “…the imbalances and overemphasis of…
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ACNA’s NDA
Yesterday, ACNA’s bishops said they are ashamed for how chaplains have been treated over the past years. They did not name names, but at least four bishops are under investigation. They have not issued a similar apology to the many mistreated in the Ruch case or many other cases, but that’s to be expected. On…
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The Birth of a Stream III
A friend of mine recently told me that one thing which unites ACNA bishops of the various streams is that many of them have a private “prayer language.” They speak in tongues during prayer, something probably unknown amongst Anglican bishops until the 1970s. I say the 1970s because that is when William Frey became a…
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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…