Religion was inescapable in the news of 2008. Headlines featured pastors embroiled in politics, confrontations over same-sex marriage, deadly sectarian conflicts, in-fighting among Anglicans and a joyful visit to the USA by Pope Benedict XVI.
Religion was inescapable in the news of 2008. Headlines featured pastors embroiled in politics, confrontations over same-sex marriage, deadly sectarian conflicts, in-fighting among Anglicans and a joyful visit to the USA by Pope Benedict XVI.
USA puts the ACNA v TEC split at 10% – I bet the folks at 815 are mightily peeved by that one. Hard to keep saying all is well. The writer and the paper are certain to recieve a nasty press release before the day is out.
The USA Today blurb about the Anglican Communion Split is pretty poorly written on a number of levels:
[blockquote]The unity of the world’s third-largest Christian denomination, the Anglican Communion, was challenged by breakaway bishops from Africa and South America. They met in Jerusalem [b][Actually, it was bishops, clergy and laity who met in Jerusalem, not just a few breakaway bishops][/b]to cement their traditionalist stance that homosexuality is “against Scripture.” [b][As if the meeting was all about homosexuality. Try reading the Jerusalem Declaration please!][/b]Several skipped the Communion’s once-a-decade worldwide meeting in August.[b][Um, is over 250 “several”?!?!?!][/b] Ten percent of U.S. parishes have split from the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism, which approved a gay bishop in 2003. The breakaways have announced an effort to form their own province, the Anglican Church in North America.[/blockquote]