Category: history
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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…
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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…