Grants will fund conclusion of Episcopal Church work on same-gender blessings
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What is the total of funds granted to various TEC bodies to support the “full inclusion” agenda?
From the ARCUS Foundation alone:
2007
Integrity
$30,000
“to encourage the Episcopal Church to continue its commitment to full inclusion of GLBT people.”
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
$25,000
“for the Full Inclusion in the Anglican Communion Consultation”
2008
Cathedral Church of St. James, Chicago, IL
$177,251
“to support the efforts of the Chicago Consultation to promote the full inclusion of LGBT faithful in the Episcopal Church”
Integrity
$60,000
“for two half-time field organizers to support efforts to promote the full inclusion of LGBT faithful within the Episcopal Church.”
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
$132,162
“for support of the Chicago Consultation’s efforts to promote the full inclusion of LGBT persons in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion.”
2009
Integrity
$105,790
“to ensure that the policy changes achieved during the 2009 General Convention are implemented”
2010
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
$404,000
“to support the development of liturgical resources for blessing same-sex relationships in the Episcopal Church”
2011
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
$90,000
“to support the completion of work on proposed rites for the blessing of same-gender relationships in the Episcopal Church”
Integrity
$200,000
“to promote the full inclusion of LGBT people in the Episcopal Church”
Well over a million dollars from one Foundation over just 5 years.
And to think of how many poor people could have been fed with this money. Truly sad…
Sickening that it has come to this. Shame on TEC!
It’s not really surprising to see that the devil is using people and their money to promote heresy.
Ol’ Nick has been doing that for centuries.
“Grants [i]from non-Christian homosexual advocacy organizations [/i] will fund [i]predetermined[/i] conclusion of Episcopal Church work on same-gender blessings”
There, fixed it.
I wonder how much the IRD gave to conservative Episcopalian groups? There was much gnashing of teeth at the evil, outside IRD by the revisionists.
Notify the ABC! Alert the firebrigade! Call the Keystone Kops!
It’s only evil robroy because conservatives got the money.
The love of ……
Spending money on sin–yup, God isn’t doing a “new thing”, humanity is doing the “old thing”…
It’s curious that none of the organizations awarded grants by ARCUS are formally part of TEC’s official structures. This so, despite the fact that it is clear that several very substantial grants are being used to fund official business of a TEC Standing Committee. Why is money being funneled through CDSP rather than directly through the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music?
Contrast this-where the world supports Christians who will sacrifice to the new gods of political correctness-and the lives of those who have not. Do we see S. Paul accept Roman money whilst explaining that all religions are valid? Or indeed have any of the martyrs done so?
Sadly Anglicanism has embraced the worlds thinking. What amazes me is how some refuse to see it or imagine the problem is just going to go away
driver8,
If you’re up to it, it would be very helpful to see comparative figures for other major agenda or program initiatives for TECUSA and how they were “funded”, if at all.
Nothing like using boat-loads of money in order to determine discernment.
Archer,
Not to be crass, nor flippant, but “the poor you will have with you always.”
From terms of TECUSA needs and even stated priorities, just think how far all those grants would have gone to establish spanish-speaking church plants in optimum areas, including the recruitment of spanish-speaking clergy and ordinands. Now [b]there[/b] is a statistically untapped major segment of our society that is looking to “be Churched.”
I would point to the Chicago Consultation (with Professor Ruth M. now at CDSP) for the strategy of soliciting grants in order to work out the publishing outside the confines of the Standing Commission.
One thing that occurs tome is that there is a dangerous defecit of accountability. An official TEC body (The Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music) has access to, in effect, a large budget over which General Convention has no authority.
In the same period 2009 – 2011 – in which the Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music had access to approximately $500,000 dollars simply to collect and develop resources on same sex blessings – TEC shut down the national evangelism office due to budget constraints.
Presumably the grants are going to the seminaries to support the salaries of the unfaithful faculty involved in this diabolical attack on the Church.
I think this is the first thread where I’ve seen the lightbulb go on for people as to the true nature of the Episcopal Church. If you look as other “progressive” “Christian” organizations, you are going to find the same pattern. Those groups are not supported by Christians, they are fronts for people with worldly agendas, either non-Christian or anti-Christian. Remember, one thing the Enemy is good at is counterfeit and deception. He has been doing it since the beginning.
it is all rather tragic…… money, campaigning….lecturing the AC about how intelligently revisionists are reaching their western context…… but Americans are not easily fooled……..fewer than 1 in 400, about 0.25% of Americans go to hear about ‘ubuntu’ or whatever from TEC revisionists……… they can spend what they like……. nobody’s interested, just the same old dudes who have been in the pews since Woodstock and hardly any American under 60…….. don’t worry about revisionists: they empty their own churches……let ’em spend what they like….. even they know they are failing to reach many Americans….or Brits…… or anyone…..