“Why is there a Sunset in the East?”
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“What in the World is going on”
This is the best one yet - it’s going to be Biblical.
Fr. @RonOffringa on the ACNA: dual integrities was a settlement with a telos, not a final answer. The Holy Orders Task Force says plainly that both sides can't be right.
Full interview Wed 8/26, 7pm EST.
The Dean of ACNA, Julian Dobbs, has issued a strong statement:
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
A situation has arisen in our Province that has given great offense to many who worship in our churches. I want to address this and be plain about the position of the Anglican Church in North America.
At issue is the recent participation of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, ACNA, with a bishop of The Episcopal Church in a joint dedication of a local school chapel. Many within our Province have been shocked by what appears to be renewed communion with The Episcopal Church, while others are confused by the controversy.
As such, I want to reaffirm the position of the Anglican Church in North America and renew the biblical call to repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is now nearly two decades since many of us separated from The Episcopal Church, whose leadership abandoned the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Departing from those with whom we worshiped and served was costly to our parishes and to our souls. It remains painful for many of us. It was, however, the right thing to do. Just as our Lord is faithful to His children, He calls us to be faithful to His Word. That is unequivocal.
The Global Anglican Council has called those who hold leadership office in the Global Anglican Communion to a principled disengagement from any who promote false teaching.
That same principle governs our relations here in North America with those who have departed from the faith we have received through the Word of God and expressed in the formularies of our Church. The Anglican Church in North America is not in communion with The Episcopal Church, and those who hold ecclesiastical authority in our Province bear a solemn responsibility to uphold this position.
Let it be clearly understood that principled disengagement does not mean indifference. Our position has always been to pray for those who have departed from the faith and to call them to repentance. We continue to plead with the Lord that He would grant them a change of heart and restore them to the faith. It is because we long for that day that we speak plainly. Until it comes, however, we cannot be in communion with those who have distorted God’s Word.
The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina has communicated with his diocese regarding his original intentions in participating in the dedication and the resulting controversy. Next month, as part of the scheduled College of Bishops meeting, I will lay the seriousness of this situation before the bishops and ask them to consider with me what faithfulness to our Lord and the faith we have received requires of those who have been entrusted with ecclesiastical authority.
In the interim, please kneel with me before God’s throne of grace to pray for the renewed faithfulness of His Church.
In Christ alone,
The Rt. Rev. Julian M. Dobbs
Dean of the Province, ACNA
A statement from Bishop Dobbs, Dean of the Province on the joint Communion service involving Bishop Edgar of the ACNA and Ruth Woodliff-Stanley of the Episcopal Church:
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
A situation has arisen in our Province that has given great offense to many who worship in our churches. I want to address this and be plain about the position of the Anglican Church in North America.
At issue is the recent participation of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, ACNA, with a bishop of The Episcopal Church in a joint dedication of a local school chapel. Many within our Province have been shocked by what appears to be renewed communion with The Episcopal Church, while others are confused by the controversy.
As such, I want to reaffirm the position of the Anglican Church in North America and renew the biblical call to repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is now nearly two decades since many of us separated from The Episcopal Church, whose leadership abandoned the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Departing from those with whom we worshiped and served was costly to our parishes and to our souls. It remains painful for many of us. It was, however, the right thing to do. Just as our Lord is faithful to His children, He calls us to be faithful to His Word. That is unequivocal.
The Global Anglican Council has called those who hold leadership office in the Global Anglican Communion to a principled disengagement from any who promote false teaching.
That same principle governs our relations here in North America with those who have departed from the faith we have received through the Word of God and expressed in the formularies of our Church. The Anglican Church in North America is not in communion with The Episcopal Church, and those who hold ecclesiastical authority in our Province bear a solemn responsibility to uphold this position.
Let it be clearly understood that principled disengagement does not mean indifference. Our position has always been to pray for those who have departed from the faith and to call them to repentance. We continue to plead with the Lord that He would grant them a change of heart and restore them to the faith. It is because we long for that day that we speak plainly. Until it comes, however, we cannot be in communion with those who have distorted God’s Word.
The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina has communicated with his diocese regarding his original intentions in participating in the dedication and the resulting controversy. Next month, as part of the scheduled College of Bishops meeting, I will lay the seriousness of this situation before the bishops and ask them to consider with me what faithfulness to our Lord and the faith we have received requires of those who have been entrusted with ecclesiastical authority.
In the interim, please kneel with me before God’s throne of grace to pray for the renewed faithfulness of His Church.
In Christ alone,
The Rt. Rev. Julian M. Dobbs
A statement from Bishop Dobbs, Dean of the Province on the joint Communion service involving Bishop Edgar of the ACNA and Ruth Woodliff-Stanley of the Episcopal Church:
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
A situation has arisen in our Province that has given great offense to many who worship in our churches. I want to address this and be plain about the position of the Anglican Church in North America.
At issue is the recent participation of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, ACNA, with a bishop of The Episcopal Church in a joint dedication of a local school chapel. Many within our Province have been shocked by what appears to be renewed communion with The Episcopal Church, while others are confused by the controversy.
As such, I want to reaffirm the position of the Anglican Church in North America and renew the biblical call to repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is now nearly two decades since many of us separated from The Episcopal Church, whose leadership abandoned the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Departing from those with whom we worshiped and served was costly to our parishes and to our souls. It remains painful for many of us. It was, however, the right thing to do. Just as our Lord is faithful to His children, He calls us to be faithful to His Word. That is unequivocal.
The Global Anglican Council has called those who hold leadership office in the Global Anglican Communion to a principled disengagement from any who promote false teaching.
That same principle governs our relations here in North America with those who have departed from the faith we have received through the Word of God and expressed in the formularies of our Church. The Anglican Church in North America is not in communion with The Episcopal Church, and those who hold ecclesiastical authority in our Province bear a solemn responsibility to uphold this position.
Let it be clearly understood that principled disengagement does not mean indifference. Our position has always been to pray for those who have departed from the faith and to call them to repentance. We continue to plead with the Lord that He would grant them a change of heart and restore them to the faith. It is because we long for that day that we speak plainly. Until it comes, however, we cannot be in communion with those who have distorted God’s Word.
The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina has communicated with his diocese regarding his original intentions in participating in the dedication and the resulting controversy. Next month, as part of the scheduled College of Bishops meeting, I will lay the seriousness of this situation before the bishops and ask them to consider with me what faithfulness to our Lord and the faith we have received requires of those who have been entrusted with ecclesiastical authority.
In the interim, please kneel with me before God’s throne of grace to pray for the renewed faithfulness of His Church.
In Christ alone,
The Rt. Rev. Julian M. Dobbs
🚨🇫🇷 Meanwhile in France today
Another huge Supercell filmed - Europe is getting battered by all kinds of extremely unusual extreme Weather.
Starting to think they’re trying to Climate Engineer some kind of Apocalyptic Climatic Event.
I’m an Anglican, and I love the history and heritage of the English Church. In its pure, traditional form, it is beautiful, reverent and deeply rooted in the Christian faith.
But the more I read and study Orthodoxy, the more I find myself convinced by its claim to be the historic Church founded by Christ and handed down through the Apostles.
The saints, the Church Fathers, the ancient liturgy and the continuity of Orthodox doctrine all begin to make far more sense when you study the history of the Church alongside Scripture rather than Scripture in isolation.
I’m still learning and studying, and I’m not pretending I have everything figured out. But so far, I haven’t come across another Church that seems to meet those standards of apostolic continuity, doctrine, worship and historical faithfulness as completely as Orthodoxy does
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The real ethos, which ACNA and GAFCON struggles with, is accepting 1990s Episcopalianism/Anglicanism as the standard instead of classical Anglicanism anchored upon the formularies.
There’s too much 20th Century within our province and the GAC.
- Fr. Andrew Brashier
If abortion were counted as a cause of death, it would be the #1 cause worldwide, more than all next 10 causes combined.
A billion people are aborted every 13 years.
Since 1970, 310 million Europeans were aborted.
Europe would not be in population decline without abortion.
Nepal floods: Aerial footage shows the devastating aftermath.
At least 97 people have been killed, while 403 people from 27 countries remain unaccounted for.
Among those reported missing are 62 Nepali citizens, 133 Indians, 47 Americans, and 33 Britons.
BREAKING: New footage shows absolutely horrifying scenes along the China-Nepal border amid devastating flash floods, hundreds missing, many feared dead
Ukrainian Orthodox monk Barsanouphius Turyansky was murdered at the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra on 23rd August. His death certificate records a gunshot through the head and neck. A survivor says three men dressed in Ukrainian military uniforms attacked after he answered “Glory to Ukraine” with “Glory to our Lord God.” Two others were stabbed and left for dead. No killer has yet been identified, but this bears every mark of anti-UOC religious and political hatred.
NO MORE BROTHER WARS
RIP.
To those anxious about theological matters:
"Be of good comfort, we have to do with a merciful God, ready to make the best of that little which we hold well, and not with a captious sophister, which gathereth the worst out of everything wherein we err." — Richard Hooker
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 American wages have fallen to 43% of national income, the lowest since the Great Depression.
For every $1 the US economy produces, workers are getting less of it than at any point since 1929.
The rest is going to corporate profits, which are now at an all time high.
This is why the economy keeps growing but most Americans feel poorer. GDP goes up, wages go up in dollar terms, but workers are getting a smaller and smaller slice of what they actually produce.
Asset prices keep rising for the same reason.
Money that used to go to wages is now going to shareholders instead, and shareholders put it into stocks, real estate and other assets.