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Monday, June 23
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Source: BBC News , Telegraph (London) , Ekklesia Conservative Anglican leaders have opened talks in Jerusalem on the future of the Church by criticizing its leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury, BBC News reports. The Archbishops of Nigeria and Uganda attacked his failure to discipline the US Episcopal Church for consecrating an openly gay bishop in 2003. At a press conference Sunday, the two archbishops also attempted to downplay or even justify anti-gay violence in their countries. About 300 bishops are meeting to discuss the future of the worldwide Anglican Communion, amid fears of a split. Many...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: Guardian , Reuters , Times (London) A gay priest who angered conservative Christians by exchanging rings and vows with his partner in a church ceremony for his civil partnership in London last month has resigned, London's The Guardian reports. The Rev Dr David Lord, a New Zealander who tied the knot with English clergyman Peter Cowell on May 31, "felt it appropriate to lay down his clergy license", according to a statement released through the Anglican church in New Zealand. His decision will debar him from officiating as a priest. It comes amid a furore over the ceremony...
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Sunday, June 15
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Source: Telegraph , Independent , AFP , BBC News of a religious ceremony last month at an Anglican church in London that celebrated the civil partnership of two priests is causing a ruckus in London. Picking up the story first published by the Telegraph , the ceremony is called "the first gay marriage" by the Independent because of the language used in the ceremony. Sunday Telegraph claims "this is the first time a vicar has performed a 'wedding ceremony', using a traditional marriage liturgy, with readings, hymns and a Eucharist." The vicar who performed it insists...
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Saturday, June 14
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Source: Washington Post , Christian Post , San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case Lesbian and gay couples will be able to get marriage licenses starting Tuesday from their local county clerk -- Monday evening in a few places -- but that doesn't mean they'll be able to formalize the union with a church wedding. Ministers at a few denominations, including some Unitarian churches, have eagerly embraced the new equality of the state's civil marriage laws. After the county clerk there halted all civil marriages in the county because of the Supreme Court decision mandating marriage equality...
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Sunday, June 08
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Source: Albany Times Union , Virtue Online SPECULATOR, NY -- The conservative-led Episcopal Diocese of Albany staked out its defense of what it calls "tradition marriage" on Saturday -- a move that comes as gay unions have gained new ground in California and New York. The hundreds of clergy and lay delegates who converged for their annual convention in this lakeside Adirondack community resoundingly approved a resolution that lays down this rule: Only heterosexual marriages can be celebrated in the diocese. Emotions ran high as delegates debated the issue, according to the conservative...
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Sunday, June 08
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Source: Concord Monitor , Manchester Union-Leader , Reuters V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, was united in a civil union ceremony with longtime partner Mark Andrew yesterday afternoon at St. Paul's Church in Concord. Attorney Ronna Wise, a justice of the peace, performed the private ceremony before about 120 friends and family. Robinson and Andrew, a state employee, live in Weare and have been together 20 years. The day marked the five-year anniversary of the New Hampshire election that, once ratified, made Robinson the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican church...
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Friday, June 06
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Source: allAfrica.com , Sydney Morning Herald , Virtue Online , Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel , Telegraph (London) A war of words among Anglican bishops is heating up in advance of two conferences this summer at which virtually all of them will meet. An anti-gay African bishop this week insisted that the only way to heal the rift that's been created in the church is for liberal bishops to "repent and return to Christ's teachings." Knowing that won't happen, other conservative clerics say that it's time for the church to split up into different groupings. The Archbishop of...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Source: Reuters , London (Ont.) Free Press , Anglican Mainstream blog OTTAWA -- A fourth diocese in the Anglican Church of Canada voted this week in favor of a cautiously-worded motion that could lead to blessing same-sex unions. The annual synod, or governing convention, of the diocese voted on May 26 to ask the bishop to consider giving clergy permission to bless same-sex marriages. The margin in favor was 72 per cent in both clergy and lay houses (97 clergy in favour, 36 against; 227 lay people in favor, 87 against), according to a report from Anglican Journal reprinted in Anglican Mainstream...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: Dallas Voice , Dallas Morning News The leader of the Episcopal Church said Monday, April 28 that she expects the denomination to sanction same-sex union ceremonies “in our lifetimes.” Speaking at the Episcopal Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, a predominantly gay parish, during her first official visit to Dallas, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori also said she believes openly gay bishop Gene Robinson’s exclusion from the upcoming Lambeth Conference will only serve to increase his impact on the event. Jefferts Schori is presiding bishop of the U.S. branch of the 80-million-member worldwide...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: UK Gay News New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is in England this week on a book tour for his new memoir, In the Eye of the Storm . [ Amazon ] He's getting plenty of press in the UK for an interview that airs today on BBC in which he lashes out at the way his church's titular leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has handled criticism of Robinson's consecration. But he produced a for a less stormy dialogue when he sat down for a chat with British website UK Gay News . The opening gambit: “What is the correct way to address a bishop of the American Episcopal...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: BBC News , Guardian (London) God is "very disappointed" with the failure of the Archbishop of Canterbury to confront the Anglican communion's outspoken critics of homosexuality, its first openly gay bishop says today. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, accuses Rowan Williams of failing to stand up to Christian traditionalists who denounce the bishop's life as an abomination of the Bible's teachings, and threaten the communion with schism for not shunning him. As the first bishop to speak of having a homosexual relationship, following his election in 2003, Robinson...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Reuters , Associated Press , KFSN TV , Fresno Bee FRESNO, California -- The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin is suing a deposed bishop who led a secession last year prompted by the church's ordination of women and gays. The diocese said in its lawsuit, filed Thursday in Fresno County Superior Court, that John-David Schofield breached his duties to the church and demanded he vacate his offices and turn over diocesan property and financial accounts. National church leaders removed Schofield as the head of the Fresno-based diocese after he led parishioners to align themselves with the...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: New York Times , Episcopal Life Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal prelate whose consecration led conservatives to split from the church, said in an interview on Thursday that he and his partner of 20 years were planning a civil union ceremony to be held in his home church in the diocese of New Hampshire in June. Bishop Robinson told the New York Times that by scheduling the ceremony for June, he did not intend to further inflame conservatives just before the Anglican Communion gathers in August in Cambridge, England, for the Lambeth Conference, which happens only once every...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Vancouver Sun , Globe and Mail VANCOUVER - A South American Anglican archbishop who adamantly opposes homosexual relationships is coming to Vancouver on Friday despite being told to stay away by Canada's top Anglican. Archbishop Gregory Venables, who claims to represent 15 breakaway Anglican congregations in Canada, will speak Friday at a gathering in Delta of the conservative Anglican Network in Canada. Venables, who has been criticized as a rogue archbishop by Anglican colleagues in South America and elsewhere, is recruiting Anglican congregations in Canada and the U.S. that have...
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Friday, April 11
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer , Associated Press via Fox19 The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio is suing to regain control of several churches that broke away in protest over the election of a gay bishop and other doctrinal issues that have divided the denomination. Dissatisfied members of the five parishes named in the suit can leave the diocese, but they cannot hold on to the land buildings, the church said in the lawsuit filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. The diocese wants the court to rule that the church holds the rights to the property. The parishes associated themselves an anti-gay cleric...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian , Cape Times , Bay Area Reporter San Francisco -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu offered his sincerest thanks and gratitude on Tuesday night to the audience at Grace Cathedral as he delivered a moving acceptance speech, upon receiving the OUTSPOKEN Award from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( ILGHRC ). The award recognized that Tutu's "leadership (and) outspokenness have contributed substantially to advancing (our) rights", the commission's executive director, Paula Ettelbrick, said. In accepting the honor, the archbishop said...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Seattle Times The Very Rev. Robert Taylor resigned Friday as dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, amidst acclaim for his accomplishments but following months of controversy over staff shakeups and parish leadership. Taylor came to "The Holy Box," as the cathedral is often nicknamed, in 1999 with a background that put him instantly in the news. He had been an anti-apartheid student leader in South Africa, became a protege of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and is a partnered gay man. Taylor said in a letter to church members that he was resigning because...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Boston Globe CONCORD, N.H. -- Five years after he was consecrated a bishop in a nearby hockey arena, wearing a bulletproof vest under his new golden vestments, Gene Robinson is bracing for another round of controversy. "One of the things I think I've learned in the last five years is that, as much as I wanted to be known as the good bishop, and not the gay bishop, there's no escaping," Robinson said in an interview with the Boston Globe last week at the diocesan headquarters. "I would love just to be a simple country bishop, but that just doesn't seem to be in...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: Anglican Journal , Virtue Online A group of evangelical bishops from the Church of England tried to make peace with conservative primates (national archbishops) who are planning to boycott this summer's Lambeth Conference, an important gathering of all bishops in the Anglican Communion that is held once per decade, Anglican Journal reports. 20 Church of England bishops sent a letter urging conservative primates who are planning an alternative conference in Jerusalem to reconsider their decision to boycott the Lambeth Conference because of disagreements over the place of gay men and...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: The Guardian It is fitting that Bishop Gene Robinson spent much of his Easter enduring the wintry conditions of the Great North Woods of New Hampshire, performing his ministry to small but loyal congregations. For although he is one of the few bishops who could claim to be a household name across the world's Anglican communion, he has been all but frozen out by the head of his church, the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the first bishop to speak openly about having a homosexual relationship, he has heard fellow Anglicans describe gays as "lower than beasts". London's The...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: UK Gay News , GayNZ.com LAGOS -- A gay leader of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group in Nigeria says he feared for his life after a mob attack outside a funeral ceremony in Port Harcourt on Thursday. "I have never known fear like I knew when they were brutalizing me. I thought they were going to kill me there and then," says the victim, who did not want to be named. On its website, CAN says the group is "Working for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion." The group's goal, according to the site is "the day when...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Grand Forks Herald , Associated Press via Grand Forks Herald A lesbian priest says she wants to start a dialogue with church leaders after the Episcopal bishop of North Dakota refused her request for a license to minister in the state. The Rev. Gayle Baldwin, 62, an associate professor of religion at the University of North Dakota, was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1980. She came out as a lesbian a decade ago in Wyoming, where she has a license to preach and administer the sacraments. She came to UND in 2000. She says she’s remained silent for 10 years. But, partly because the issue of...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Source: Guardian , Associated Press , Reuters Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church were told once and for all on Monday that the gay man they elevated to bishop will not be allowed to attend a top, once-a-decade worldwide Anglican church meeting this summer. At a Texas meeting Monday night of the Episcopal House of Bishops, Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, said that the final offer to include him was in effect a "non-offer," and he had declined it. The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the U.S. Anglican leaders said Robinson could "be present" in the conference...
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Sunday, March 02
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Source: New Yorker The New Yorker has now published to the web the excerpt of a book by his daughter about the late Bishop Paul Moore, who was a major force for social justice and religious tolerance in the Episcopal Church. [see Qnews summary ] The author, Honor Moore was appropriately named by her parents, because she honors her father in the book, A Bishop's Daughter . He was, she says, "a force of imagination that flared and coruscated, an instrument of transformation." The book is -- even in this brief eight-page excerpt -- a remarkable memoir of a remarkable man, but it is also...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Diocese of New Westminster and Canada.com Two British Columbia parishes in the Diocese of New Westminster have voted to ask to be added to the list of places where same sex blessings may take place. St. Mary’s Kerrisdale in Vancouver, and the Church of the Holy Spirit in Whonnock, Maple Ridge (formerly St. John’s Whonnock), voted by large margins to ask Bishop Michael Ingham to grant his permission for the parishes to conduct services for persons in committed, monogamous same sex relationships. Same-sex blessings have created a major schism within the Anglican Church, with at least 15 churches...
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Thursday, February 28
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The New Yorker this week publishes an excerpt from the new book “The Bishop’s Daughter” to be published in May. Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. The article is not available online, but the magazine offers an audio interview with the author who talks about her father’s public service and private life. See also: A more complete synopsis of the New Yorker article When she was a child, Honor Moore writes that she accepted her father as a force of imagination that flared and coruscated, an instrument of transformation. At seminary, he...
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Sunday, February 24
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Source: The Press and Living Church News Service Christchurch, New Zealand -- Christchurch's new Anglican bishop is set to be a controversial figure -- a Canadian woman who has signalled support for blessing gay marriages but will not break with tradition. Sources in the church yesterday confirmed Victoria Matthews, a former bishop of Edmonton, Canada, was two-thirds of the way through the ratification process. News of her election was leaked via the internet on Friday. Church leaders yesterday refused to confirm or deny the report, but the co-presiding Archbishop of Aotearoa, David Moxon,...
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Saturday, February 23
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Source: The Telegraph (London) and Religious Intelligence According to London's Telegraph, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is backing plans to create a "parallel" Church for American conservatives to avert fresh splits over homosexuality. According to the website Religious Intelligence , US Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has endorsed the program of alternative Episcopal oversight brought to her by a group of conservative American bishops. The Telegraph reports that Dr Williams has held confidential talks with senior American bishops and theologians who...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Guardian and AP via International Herald Tribune The Anglican church in Uganda yesterday threatened to leave the worldwide communion unless the US Episcopal church condemned homosexuality. The ultimatum came from the Rev Aaron Mwesigye, provincial secretary and spokesman for the Ugandan church, who warned that the attitude of some American clergy could trigger the disintegration of the world's third biggest Christian denomination. He said, "If they don't change and continue to support homosexual practices and same-sex marriage, our relationship with them will be completely...
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Saturday, February 16
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Source: National Post and Canadian Press At least five more Anglican churches -- three in British Columbia and two in Ontario -- are likely to separate from the national Church over the divisive issue of same-sex blessings by the end of the month. Another four will also vote on similar motions this month. They will be following St. John's, the country's largest Anglican parish, which voted this week to leave the Anglican Church of Canada. The Vancouver parish chose to put itself under the authority of conservative Gregory Venables, the Archbishop of the Southern Cone, which encompasses...
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