Daily Archives: March 24, 2026

The ACNA Executive Committee replies to the ADOSC Standing Committee Requests

Please read it all carefully and follow all linked documents–KSH. You may find the current list of all the current Standing Committee members there.

March 23, 2026

Brothers and Sisters in Christ,We write to you in the waning days of this Lenten season with our eyes fixed firmly on the hope we find in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection. Linked below you will find three documents that represent our latest attempts to seek justice and to improve the tribunal process in the Anglican Church in North America. The first is a detailed letter from the Standing Committee to the Executive Committee of the ACNA dated February 20, 2026. In this eight page letter, we lay out in great detail our concerns from the ruling in the Bishop Ruch case that bring to question the process of future trials in the Province. In our letter, we ask the Executive Committee to respond to six particular requests on or before today. We also promise what we are doing today, which is releasing our letter and their response to you.
  
The other two letters are their responses. The first is a brief letter dated February 26, 2026 in which a few of the Standing Committee along with Bishop Edgar are invited to a private meeting to discuss and come to a mutual understanding. Our response to this request is that we are willing to meet but only with our whole Standing Committee and with no promise of confidentiality since our singular purpose is shining light into the process of justice in the Province.

The final letter dated March 20, 2026 represents the official response of the Executive Committee to our February 20, 2026 letter. I commend it to your careful reading. We have just received this letter and have not had time to process it together but will communicate more as we continue in this process.

Thank you for your continued prayers and support. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
 For the Standing Committee,
 Faithfully,   
The Very Rev. Shay Gaillard
President, ADOSC Standing Committee
              
Posted in * South Carolina, Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)

The Latest Enews from the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina

St. John-Holy Trinity Impacts Friends in the DRC

In this brief video, created by New Wineskins for Global Missions, the Rev. Bisoke Balikenga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, shares the story of Hearts for the Congo, a ministry that grew out of a chance connection at the New Wineskins Conference and a friendship with Julia Marshall of St. John-Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Charleston, SC.

Read it all.

Posted in * Anglican - Episcopal, * South Carolina, Anglican Church in Congo/Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo, Parish Ministry

Oscar Romero for his feast day–“The violence of Love”

‘The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.’

Oscar Romero, November 27, 1977

Posted in --El Salvador, Church History, Theology

A 2010 Rowan Williams sermon on the life and ministry of Oscar Romero on Archbishop Romero’s Feast Day–‘Life has the last word’

And so his question to all those who have the freedom to speak in the Church and for the Church is ‘who do you really speak for?’ But if we take seriously the underlying theme of his words and witness, that question is also, ‘who do you really feel with?’ Are you immersed in the real life of the Body, or is your life in Christ seen only as having the same sentiments as the powerful? Sentir con la Iglesia in the sense in which the mature Romero learned those words is what will teach you how to speak on behalf of the Body. And we must make no mistake about what this can entail: Romero knew that this kind of ‘feeling with the Church’ could only mean taking risks with and for the Body of Christ – so that, as he later put it, in words that are still shocking and sobering, it would be ‘sad’ if priests in such a context were not being killed alongside their flock. As of course they were in El Salvador, again and again in those nightmare years.

But he never suggests that speaking on behalf of the Body is the responsibility of a spiritual elite. He never dramatised the role of the priest so as to play down the responsibility of the people. If every priest and bishop were silenced, he said, ‘each of you will have to be God’s microphone. Each of you will have to be a messenger, a prophet. The Church will always exist as long as even one baptized person is alive.’ Each part of the Body, because it shares the sufferings of the whole – and the hope and radiance of the whole – has authority to speak out of that common life in the crucified and risen Jesus.

So Romero’s question and challenge is addressed to all of us, not only those who have the privilege of some sort of public megaphone for their voices. The Church is maintained in truth; and the whole Church has to be a community where truth is told about the abuses of power and the cries of the vulnerable. Once again, if we are serious about sentir con la Iglesia, we ask not only who we are speaking for but whose voice still needs to be heard, in the Church and in society at large. The questions here are as grave as they were thirty years ago. In Salvador itself, the methods of repression familiar in Romero’s day were still common until very recently. We can at least celebrate the fact that the present head of state there has not only apologized for government collusion in Romero’s murder but has also spoken boldly on behalf of those whose environment and livelihood are threatened by the rapacity of the mining companies, who are set on a new round of exploitation in Salvador and whose critics have been abducted and butchered just as so many were three decades back. The skies are not clear: our own Anglican bishop in Salvador was attacked ten days ago by unknown enemies; but the signs of hope are there, and the will to defend the poor and heal the wounds.

Read it all.

Posted in --El Salvador, --Rowan Williams, Church History, Theology

A prayer for the feast day of Oscar Romero

Almighty God, who didst call thy servant Oscar Romero to be a voice for the voiceless poor, and to give his life as a seed of freedom and a sign of hope: Grant that, inspired by his sacrifice and the example of the martyrs of El Salvador, we may without fear or favor witness to thy Word who abideth, thy Word who is Life, even Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be praise and glory now and for ever. Amen.

Posted in --El Salvador, Church History, Death / Burial / Funerals, Spirituality/Prayer

A prayer for today from the Scottish Prayerbook

O God, whose blessed Son did overcome death for our salvation: Mercifully grant that we, who have his glorious passion in remembrance, may take up our cross daily and follow him; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Posted in Lent, Spirituality/Prayer

From the Morning Bible Readings

The Lord is your keeper;
    the Lord is your shade
    on your right hand.
The sun shall not smite you by day,
    nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and for evermore.

–Psalm 121:4-8

Posted in Theology: Scripture