Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – Easter Saturday: 2 April 2016

on Saturday, 2 April 2016 at 10.00 am by Peter Owen
categorised as Opinion

Sam Keyes The Living Church Food of life, food of death

Giles Fraser The Guardian The resurrection isn’t an argument. It’s the Christian word for defiance

Some Easter sermons

Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishop of Liverpool

Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church

Archbishop of Armagh
Archbishop of Armagh (dawn service)
Archbishop of Dublin

Bishop of Waikato

Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem

And some from Holy Week

Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church

Archbishop of Armagh

ACC-16 in Lusaka gets closer…

on Friday, 1 April 2016 at 5.20 pm by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Anglican Communion

continued from here.

Updated again Wednesday 6 April

Another major report has been issued: Major new report calls Anglicans to Intentional Discipleship and Disciple-Making

The full report is online here.

And the Introduction is available separately here.

There have also been several articles seeking to undermine the meeting from various conservative sources:

• Does the Primates Meeting have any Authority? by Archbishop Mouneer Anis

• What is the Anglican Consultative Council meeting for? by Chris Sugden and Vinay Samuel

• a six-part series titled Back to Basics by former archbishop Peter Jensen

And the group of conservative American Episcopalians called Communion Partners has issued this: An Easter Report from the Communion Partners of the Episcopal Church.

Meanwhile, ENS reports: Anglicans, Episcopalians head to Zambia for consultative council.

Update 4 April

Mouneer Anis has announced that he is not attending ACC-16 in Lusaka, see the full text of his letter here: Breaking—Bishop Mouneer Anis decides not to attend the 2016 ACC Meeting in Lusaka (h/t Kendall Harmon) And there is a PDF of the original.

Update 6 April

The Primate of Kenya has published this letter: Statement on Anglican Consultative Council 16, Lusaka (h/t George Conger)

First annual report from the Independent Reviewer

on Friday, 1 April 2016 at 11.51 am by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Church of England

The first annual report from the Independent Reviewer appointed under the Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests (Resolution of Disputes Procedure) Regulations 2014, Sir Philip Mawer, has been published and is available here.

It includes, at Appendix 3 (scroll down) a Note on the Legal and Canonical Status of the Provincial Episcopal Visitors.

Earlier material concerning the House of Bishops Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests can be found on the CofE website here.

Forward in Faith has commented on this report.

Previous TA articles relating to earlier reports can be found here on Chrism Masses, and then here on All Saints Cheltenham, and also on the consultation paper discussed in the report, and on the Notes issued as the outcome of that.