CONNECTICUT: Liberal Bishop says Robinson consecration 'best thing' for TEC
CONNECTICUT: Liberal Bishop says Robinson consecration 'best thing' for The Episcopal Church
Global South holds keys to the future of Anglicanism
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 13, 2012
If you want to know why the "Ct. Six" those faithful parishes in the Diocese of Connecticut left the diocese and the Episcopal Church; and why, more recently, Fr. Ron Gauss and Bishop Seabury Church, Groton, CT, departed; or why the Rev. Christopher Leighton of St. Paul's in Darien is weighing his parish's options, this statement by Ct. Bishop Ian Douglas should clear it all up:
"One of the best things that has happened for The Episcopal Church, with respect to our engagement in the Anglican Communion, has been the election and ordination of [the openly gay] Gene Robinson," Douglas stated in a recent interview with ENS.
Douglas noted that for decades before 2003, if even two people turned up for a hearing on an Anglican Communion-related resolution at General Convention, "we in the world mission committee felt like we were doing well ... Then after 2003 and the Windsor Report ... the hottest ticket in Columbus [at the 75th General Convention in 2006] was the open hearing on the Anglican Communion. More than 3,000 people attended and 92 witnesses testified. That's a huge change."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Global South holds keys to the future of Anglicanism
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 13, 2012
If you want to know why the "Ct. Six" those faithful parishes in the Diocese of Connecticut left the diocese and the Episcopal Church; and why, more recently, Fr. Ron Gauss and Bishop Seabury Church, Groton, CT, departed; or why the Rev. Christopher Leighton of St. Paul's in Darien is weighing his parish's options, this statement by Ct. Bishop Ian Douglas should clear it all up:
"One of the best things that has happened for The Episcopal Church, with respect to our engagement in the Anglican Communion, has been the election and ordination of [the openly gay] Gene Robinson," Douglas stated in a recent interview with ENS.
Douglas noted that for decades before 2003, if even two people turned up for a hearing on an Anglican Communion-related resolution at General Convention, "we in the world mission committee felt like we were doing well ... Then after 2003 and the Windsor Report ... the hottest ticket in Columbus [at the 75th General Convention in 2006] was the open hearing on the Anglican Communion. More than 3,000 people attended and 92 witnesses testified. That's a huge change."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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