Category: history
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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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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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“It Kind of Resembles TEC”: Bishop Mott Explains Why the ACNA Lost Its Way
Writing in the ACNA’s Convocation of the West publication The Line (Volume XIII, Number 7 — July 2026) Bishop Winfield Mott reflects on the history of the Convocation within ACNA. He sounds dejected about what has become of ACNA. He writes in part: For us in the Convocation of the West, our Alpha was in…
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AMiA Collapse 13
After their meeting in Virginia the Rwandan bishops returned home. Their attitude towards Chairman Murphy soured. As Bishop Barnum put it, “It seemed, on the surface, that this meeting went well and that these two men were walking together. But deep, unresolved issues lay underneath the surface.” The Rwandan House of Bishops met in late…
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AMiA Collapse: Interlude
Before proceeding to the major events which followed the meeting in Arlington between Archbishop Rwaje and Bishop Murphy, it may be instructive to look at a bit of what was going on around the Mission. For example, Terrell Glenn consecrated a new building for AMiA’s Church of the Apostles in Columbia after his resignation. Glenn’s…
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AMiA Collapse 12
Speaking to All Saints Church in Pawleys Island in 2012, AMiA Bishop T.J. Johnston said, “The unfortunate thing is the leaders who profoundly led All Saints—Thad, Chuck, Shuler, name them all. You know what. They ain’t doing too well relationally.” The fissures between Terrell Glenn and Chuck Murphy led Glenn to resign in late 2011.…
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AMiA Collapse 11
For months Bishop Terrell Glenn and his wife Teresa agonized in prayer about what to do about his leadership position within the AMiA. He had personal issues with Bishop Murphy that he could not resolve and many of his clergy–notably the D.C. authors of the Washington Statement–were unhappy with where things were headed. Apparently there…
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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…