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Get off the sidelines

From Gary Flowers • Henderson, Kentucky, Sep 01, 2008 This is a good article, but I don't see how the church will be able to correct itself with the same-sex agenda that it is still pushing. It is not in Scripture anywhere that same-sex should be blessed and that will always be the bull in the china shop. There has to be a happy medium somewhere, but who is going to back up or down from the true faith of Scripture? Is it going to be the gay agenda side or the believers of Scripture? That is the true question.

Get off the sidelines

From Lionel Deimel • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sep 01, 2008 How can you publish essays that use the term "Anglican Church"? There is no Anglican Church, even though Rowan Williams and others would like to convert the fellowship that is the Anglican Communion into a hierarchical church with some body at the top of the hierarchy that can articulate doctrine for the all the Anglican provinces. You are propagandizing for enemies of The Episcopal Church.

Reconstituted San Joaquin diocese sees ordination

From Felix Henderson • Irmo, South Carolina, Sep 01, 2008 There was nothing there?  How about the diocese, including the bishop, priests, deacons, and laity who decided the Protestant Episcopal Church USA had left them, veering sharply to the left?

The author talks as if aliens had abducted the Episcopalians, the cattle, and maybe a couple of FBI agents.  Hogwash!  This is just PECUSA violating the autonomy of a diocese. Shame!

Archbishop of Canterbury sends pastoral letter to bishops of the Anglican Communion

From The Rev. Teresa T. Bowden • Wahiawa, Hawai'i, Sep 01, 2008 The theme of working together to feed, clothe, free from oppression, and to not tolerate abuses to any one or group of people who so desperately need our love and help [is present in the Archbishop’s letter].

However I am distressed that the all-inclusive love of Christ did not enter into the discussion of homosexuality. God created all people. God does not create junk. The loving exclusivity and equality of all that God created, as shown to us by the words and example of Jesus Christ, should always be in our hearts. This type of discussions, in which a portion of God-created humanity Is disrespected and judged by human beings has no place in the Anglican Communion, or any group who profess to be Christians. People who claim to be authorities on everything, given to them by ordination, and assume the robes they wear also give them the right to judge other people should begin again at the beginning and give some serious thought and meditation to their baptismal vows.

Then we can all help in the feeding, clothing, sheltering and protection of people of the world. In this way we can best spread the Gospel to all nations.

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