Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Oppose gay bishops, Anglicans urged

Robert Pigott
Religious affairs correspondent, BBC News
Monday, 28 July 2008

A group of senior Anglican clergy has told the Lambeth Conference that liberal churches must end the ordination of gay bishops and stop blessing same-sex relationships if the Communion is to arrest its slide towards a permanent split.

The working party given the task of finding possible solutions to the rift told the 650 bishops meeting in Canterbury that traditionalist churches in Africa must also stop setting up parallel church bodies in the United States as homes for congregations splitting away from the American Church because of the dispute.

The group, headed by the former President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Middle East, Clive Handford, said in the long term some sort of statement of shared beliefs and an agreement to abide by them would be necessary. the rest

Anglicans told to stop homosexual consecrations, blessings

In the meantime:
Episcopal Seminarian Releases Gay Christian Poetry Anthology

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