Category: history
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AMiA Collapse 10
Writing in 2015, Bishop Terrell Glenn talked about the times of chaos that engulfed the AMiA. He said, “What followed was a season of enmity, demonization, and slander. Sides were chosen. False accusations were made. In one case, bishops turned on congregations and clergy in ways that were worse than anything that had occurred at…
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AMiA Collapse 9
John Rucyahana’s October 25th letter provoked a response from another AMiA founding father, retired Archbishop Moses Tay of Singapore. Tay emailed Rucyahana on October 27, “…saying that he believed it to be clear that a spirit of rebellion and lawlessness was at work – beyond and beneath legitimate human concerns, procedures, and rationalizations. He then…
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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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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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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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SOMA USA, part II
I am continuing to read through Dr. John Maiden’s paper Renewing the Body of Christ: Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) USA and Transnational Charismatic Anglicanism, 1978-1998. He writes: After the decision to establish SOMA USA in 1985, the American national body maintained close links with SOMA International but was also able to operate unilaterally, with…
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Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) USA
Dr. John Maiden traces the history of SOMA in a paper titled Renewing the Body of Christ: Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) USA and Transnational Charismatic Anglicanism, 1978-1998. He writes: In April 1985 leaders of the Episcopal charismatic renewal movement gathered in the flagship charismatic evangelical Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia to discuss the formation…
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AMiA Collapse 6
According to Thad Barnum, Chuck Murphy had decided that the AMiA should leave Rwanda and had met with retired Archbishops about the future of AMiA outside of Rwanda. Now he returned to Rwanda for the September 2011 House of Bishops (HOB) meeting along with Kevin Donlon and Susan Grayson, his Chief of Staff. If the…
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AMiA Collapse 5
Bishop Barnum says that in the mid-summer of 2011, “…our Chairman met in London with AMIA’s retired and founding archbishops (It was Archbishops Kolini, Yong, and Tay). It was here, as I understand it, that the concept of a new AMIA Missionary Society took shape out of a perceived concern that AMIA was suddenly vulnerable…