The political disputes over The Episcopal Church’s place within the Anglican Communion have spilled over into Central Africa, leading to the replacement of the provincial dean, the Rt. Rev. Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana.
The Rt. Rev. Albert Chama, Bishop of Northern Zambia, was appointed to replace Bishop Mwamba as dean by the church’s General Synod, which began meeting on Sept. 6 in Mangochi, Malawi.
The government-backed Harare Herald reported Bishop Mwamba was “relieved of his duties” due to his “pro-gay” and pro-American lobbying, and because he misrepresented “the province’s position on the issue of homosexuals.”
Imagine that–discipline for an errant bishop?!?!?!
O brother! I hope this doesn’t mean another long thread in which gay activists accuse Bible-believing Americans and Africans of hatred and violence against them.
Sad, but typical.
What a relief. Not a supporter of the province’s teaching on sexuality.
Scary things going on in this province. First the murder of the conservative missionary who opposed Mwamba that occured several months ago.
Then there was the “listening conference” in Spain sponsored by Trinity Wall Street. This was discussed by Kevin and William in Anglican TV who said the Africans told Trinity Wall street that they could keep their thirty silver pieces. (Except for Mwamba?)
David Virtue discussed the attempt to buy a province by the liberals here. Also, Sarah Hey did some investigation and has this link-filled posting here which helps shed some light on those that probably want to stay in the darkness.
Interesting! I wonder what part the government had in all this? “…methinks something is rotten in Denmark…”
#2 I may be an activist, Alice, but I’m not gay! (can’t get the smilies to work)
[i]Then there was the “listening conference†in Spain sponsored by Trinity Wall Street. This was discussed by Kevin and William in Anglican TV who said the Africans told Trinity Wall street that they could keep their thirty silver pieces. (Except for Mwamba?)[/i]
Trinity Wall Street has up on their website Video Postcards from Spain. You can see and hear Mwamba and Malango. [url=http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/welcome/?mission]Trinity[/url]
Janis, thanks for the link. Sheds some light on this shady undertaking. In particular, saw that Bp Smith of Arizona participated as well as Bp Jenkins of Louisiana and Chane of Washington. I imagine that ABp Malango was one of the ones that was telling them what to do with their thirty pieces as hinted at by Kevin and William.
The neo-colonialist liberals were trying to buy themselves an African church, and the thousands which pro-gay London vicar Nick Henderson, head of the ‘Modern Church People’s Union’, went a long way to securing that in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Malango rumbled them, but they didn’t stop, moving instead to a pseudo ‘conference’ in Spain – an exercise in schmoozing and junketing, not spreading the Gospel to Africa’s animists and Muslims (which is what ‘mission’ means in Africa) and levering Mwamba into power (or so they hoped). An African church, other than South Africa, siding with Tec would have been a major propaganda coup and could have split the Global South.
But the attempt to suborn didn’t work – not enough chicken in the paella!
The Spanish ‘mission conference’ struck me as phony as a $3 bill; most people in Tec wouldn’t know what mission was if it struck them on the nose.
What we are actually seeing here is a demonic alliance between the murderous Mugabe government and an Anglican province. The Province of Central Africa has refused to take any action against the collaborationist Bishop of Harare. It has issued resolutions supporting Mugabe and condemning as “racist colonialism” the feeble Western efforts to control his madness. It has rejected the elected choice of a diocese for its bishop based on guilt by association. Now it has has condemned the only significant independent voice in the province by labeling him as pro-gay for his efforts to implement the “listening” clauses of Lambeth I.10 in addition to the “we cannot recommend” portions. Like several other Anglican provinces, and like many people in the US (reasserters and reappraisers alike), they have decided that ends justify means and that their private judgment is entitled to determine ends.
Apparently some of the posters above would have been perfectly happy with Idi Amin if he had been killing Muslims and animists instead of the Archbishop of Uganda. Opposing liberalism and homosexuality has become their sole criterion of orthodoxy. If you think living in an African dictatorship is such a great deal, why not move there, rather than trying to force all the other Episcopalians in your parishes and dioceses to share your taste in governance style?
Wow, Dale. You finally figured us out. I guess with this revelation we can close down T19. And, Brian got it exactly right. We’re facists, too. What a liberating day this is for all of us.
“Apparently some of the posters above would have been perfectly happy with Idi Amin if he had been killing Muslims and animists instead of the Archbishop of Uganda.”
Of course, Dale, we always thought the wrong target for his genocides was Amin’s main failing; thank you for clarifying this point.
“Opposing liberalism and homosexuality has become their sole criterion of orthodoxy.”
Absolutely. & I’m so glad you don’t believe in bearing false witness against your cyber-neighbor.
“If you think living in an African dictatorship is such a great deal, why not move there, rather than trying to force all the other Episcopalians in your parishes and dioceses to share your taste in governance style?”
No need, Dale – can’t you see we’re importing African dictatorships? 🙂
#13 mentions “importing African dictatorships.” See this,
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/5698/
where the Rwandan president’s demand has impinged on a Chicago parish.
Thanks for posting this, John B., which I had just read on “Thinking Anglicans.” Former Episcopalians who have aligned themselves with these African missions are just now beginning to discover that our principle of separation of church and state is not to be found in these countries, but rather governments can influence and even dictate to their churches, whether is is giving a cash gift to newly minted bishops (Kenya), telling an archbishop to instruct one of his American missions to disinvite a speaker the government leadership doesn'[t like (Rwanda), or directing the expulsion of a bishop from his position in a church (not government) organization (Zimbabwe). Alarum bells should be sounding throughout African acronymns in America.
# 14: Fair comment. I hope they will (politely) tell Kolini to butt out.