(ENS)
The first large-scale gathering in the Anglican Churches of the Americas will be a February 2009 conference on “mutual responsibility and mission.”
The organizers hope the gathering will help “to continue to celebrate our relationships through friendship, prayer, common worship, and to focus on God’s common mission in the world,” according to the draft of a “save the date” letter.
The conference will take place during the week of February 22 in San Juan, Costa Rica. Exact dates during that week are still to be determined.
“I would hope that the Anglican Churches in the Americas can come to a common understanding of our mission work together going forward from the conference,” House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson recently told ENS.
Anderson is one of the group’s organizers. The other is Francisco de Assis da Silva, provincial secretary of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil.
It looks like this is an effort aimed at countering our orthodox Anglican growth in the Southern Cone. And you can be sure they’ll toe the line, since Schori and Company run things.
When I read the headline I had to go back and read it again. The reason for the doubletake? At first, I focused on the words “Anglican” and the phraise “in the Americas” and overlooked the word “Churches.” I was conditioned to read into the headline the familiar AMiA or Anglican MISSION in the Americas. Then I saw that Bonnie Anderson was in charge, not +Chuck Murphy.
Interesting choice of terminology TEC is using.
David Handy+
It sure looks to me like Ms Anderson is setting herself up as a de facto “female lay bishop.” This woman has virtually unlimited influence…..at least as far as the TEC feminists are concerned. I wonder how far that will go in countries where male clergy still rule the roost?
“Anglican Churches in the Americas”?
More accurate to say, “Post-Anglican Churchlets in the Americas.”
NRA & Irenaeus,
TEC began its scheme to co-opt the term “Anglican” about three years ago. I had been doing news searches daily using the term ‘Anglican’ for a couple of years, and it was only about 3 years ago that the term first showed up in a TEC news release. They continue to flaunt the position that they, along with their bed-mates Canada and Mexico, are the only recognized branches of Anglicanism in North America. [size=2](Rabbit trail: can we really call it an “ism” any more?)[/size]
Now they are eager to lift up Brazil’s ‘Episcopal’ church likewise, to the detriment of the Southern Cone, which is the protector of the Brazilian orthodox Anglican breakaway in Recife. Don’t look for +Greg Venables to show up at this meeting. Does anyone have a clue what West Indies and Cuba will do?
This certainly puts the lie to ++Mouneer Anis’ effort to encourage a Global North and a Global South based on geography. That may be a forlorn hope. The Anglican split is real, and it’s not based in any way on global geography.
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The angel said, “This basket is filled with the sins of everyone throughout the land.”
[blockquote] Then the heavy lead cover was lifted off the basket, and there was a woman sitting inside it. The angel said, “The woman’s name is Wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and closed the heavy lid again.
Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.
Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel.
He replied, “To the land of Babylonia, where they will build a temple for the basket. And when the temple is ready, they will set the basket there on its pedestal. [/blockquote] Zechariah 5:7-11.
Any takers for who these three women may be?
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Bre’r Rabbit [#6]: Right you are.
On the positive side, orthodox congregations’ use of “Anglican” in their names is also shaping public perception of who is “Anglican.” ECUSA can’t overdo the “Anglican” labeling without confusing its brand with ours. And a good thing, too!
#6 Schori, Russell, and Kaeton?
Or Anderson?
Provoke not the Elves.
[i] The elves agree with Irenaeus. Please do not take this thread off topic. [/i]
Interestingly enough a couple of years ago, my wife and I visited the Kanuga conference center in North Carolina where we came across a group of retired clergy from the Diocese of Upper South Carolina. They spoke derisively of the Diocese of South Carolina, saying that that Diocese wanted to be “Anglican” instead of “Episcopalian”. The word “Anglican” to them was an insult.
I notice the same thing going on just to our south in Lodi, California, where the Remain Episcopal crowd.
Br’er Rabbit – My guess is that Anis would suggest that the Southern Cone, West Indies, and the respective orthodox dioceses in TEC and Canada gather together as self-identified orthodox Anglicans in the Americas.