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Reflections on TEC and Communion
Kendall Harmon: Honesty or Obfuscation in New Orleans? Ephraim Radner—Violence and Communion: Why the World Looks to Anglicanism, Or Will Pass It By Andrew Goddard: Thoughts on the Anglican Communion at the very edge of the Precipice Graham Kings: The Edge: The Episcopal Church, September 2007
Continue reading...Responses to the Covenant Draft
04. July 2007
There are various responses to and comments on the Covenant Draft in England as the Covenant is being considered and debated at COE General Synod: ‘The Anglican Covenant: Background and Resources’, a resource complied by Andrew Goddard is an excellent starting point for those who want to follow the process or to...
Continue reading...The Anglican Covenant - by Andrew Goddard
27. June 2007
by Andrew Goddard A Briefing Paper for the Evangelical Group on General Synod What is the proposed Anglican Covenant? The idea of an Anglican Covenant originates in one of the main proposals of The Windsor Report (TWR) as a response to the recent crisis in the Communion. The principles of TWR were supported by General Synod in Feb 2005...
Continue reading...Anglican ‘covenant’ needs prudence - Andrew Goddard
22. December 2006
Source: Religious Intelligence Update: The Fulcrum link to the article is here. By: Andrew Goddard. The writing and publication of ‘A Covenant for the Church of England’ was intended to draw attention to problems in the wider church that need addressing and to offer a constructive response. It has itself now become a...
Continue reading...Human Rights, Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion: Reflections in Light of Nigeria
23. November 2006
The Situation in Nigeria & Western Reactions Ever since at least the 1998 Lambeth Conference, Western Anglicans have been aware that their African counterparts express a far more strongly negative view of homosexuality than they do. At that time, for instance, we witnessed the Nigerian Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma’s public attempt...
Continue reading...Fulfilled or Finished? - Andrew Goddard
13. October 2006
Source: Fulcrum by Andrew Goddard The communiqué and other significant theological papers from the recent Global South (GS) meeting in Kigali have once again highlighted the significance of developments in the Anglican Communion over recent decades for our life together. We are clearly witnessing the coming to theological and ...
Continue reading...General Convention in Review - by The Rev. Dr. Andrew Goddard
04. July 2006
In his response to General Convention, the Archbishop of Canterbury noted that ‘It is not yet clear how far the resolutions passed this week and today represent the adoption by the Episcopal Church of all the proposals set out in the Windsor Report’. What follows is an initial attempt to set out the necessary details and...
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20. September 2007
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