Pat Ashworth reported it all for the Church Times in Election of lesbian bishop stirs up controversy.
Riazat Butt reports in the Guardian that Archbishop Rowan Williams urged to retract comments on election of lesbian bishop.
Jeanne Carstensen at Religion Dispatches has Election of New Lesbian Bishop Reveals Tensions in Anglican World.
Daniel Burke at Religion News Service has Lesbian Bishop Aware but Undaunted by Controversy.
Posted by Simon Sarmiento on Friday, 11 December 2009 at 11:42pm GMT | TrackBackSadly, I expect the person the Facebook group wants to influence likely thinks a Facebook is an awkward name for a printed volume of portraits.
But I could be wrong.
That person might be Facebook savvy and an avid Twitterer.
Or just a twit.
Posted by: Cynthia Gilliatt on Saturday, 12 December 2009 at 1:44am GMTCan someone tell me where to find the Facebook group?
Posted by: Richard Ashby on Saturday, 12 December 2009 at 10:22am GMTSome more positive news: the Danish Church has joined Porvoo...quite an important ecumenical development.
http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2009/12/church-of-denmark-agrees-to-sign-porvoo.html
Posted by: DDI on Saturday, 12 December 2009 at 11:24am GMTRichard, it's at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=193885897219
Thanks Erica, one of my Facebook friends has joined so I have found it now.
Posted by: Richard Ashby on Saturday, 12 December 2009 at 5:18pm GMT" The last 18 months have seen conservative evangelicals break away to form a rival church, the Anglican Church in North America. Many Anglicans are calling on Williams to officially recognise the new body." - Riazat Butt, Guardian -
Should Canterbury welcome ACNA into the Anglican Communion - that would be the beginning of the end, for the Communion. TEC is not alone in the Communion in championing the challenge to be relevant in it's presentation of the Gospel of Love and Justice in, and to, a changing world.
Posted by: Father Ron Smith on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 at 10:23am GMT"The last 18 months have seen conservative evangelicals break away to form a rival church, the Anglican Church in North America. Many Anglicans are calling on Williams to officially recognise the new body." - Riazat Butt, Guardian -
Actually, I'm not sure I would characterize the "Anglican Church in North America" as "conservative evangelicals" -- and certainly not by C of E standards. CANA may have a more evangelical flavor (though Virginia standards are not really the same as C of E, or even of Nigeria), but ACNA (ex-Pittsburgh, ex-Quincy, ex-Fort Worth, ex-San Joaquin, et al.) would probably consider themselves Anglo-Catholics. (Though again, not really by C of E standards.) The only thing that holds all these people together is their fear of gay cooties. (And in some cases, girl cooties.)
Posted by: Bill Moorhead on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 at 2:18am GMT