Posted on 06/22/2006 12:19:05 PM PDT by sionnsar
The first reviews of GenCon 2006 are in and they are not favorable:
We, the Primates of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA), meeting in Kampala on 21st – 22nd June, have followed with great interest your meeting of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church USA in Columbus. We have been especially concerned by the development of your response to The Windsor Report, which has been reported to us quite extensively. This is something for which we have earnestly prayed. We are, however, saddened that the reports to date of your elections and actions suggest that you are unable to embrace the essential recommendations of the Windsor Report and the 2005 Primates Communiqué necessary for the healing of our divisions. At the same time, we welcome the various expressions of affection for the life and work of the Anglican Communion.
We have been moved by your generosity as you have rededicated yourselves to meet the needs of the poor throughout the world, especially through your commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.
We have observed the commitment shown by your church to the full participation of people in same gender sexual relationships in civic life, church life and leadership. We have noted the many affirmations of this throughout the Convention. As you know, our Churches cannot reconcile this with the teaching on marriage set out in the Holy Scriptures and repeatedly affirmed throughout the Anglican Communion. All four Instruments of Unity in the Anglican Communion advised you against taking and continuing these commitments and actions prior to your General Convention in 2003.
At our meeting in Kampala we have committed ourselves to study very carefully all of your various actions and statements. When we meet with other Primates from the Global South in September, we shall present our concerted pastoral and structural response.
We assure all those Scripturally faithful dioceses and congregations alienated and marginalised within your Provincial structure that we have heard their cries.
In Christ,
The Most Rev. Peter Akinola, on behalf of CAPA
Chairman, CAPA
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Looks like they ain't buying it.
Trash-barrel altar...
Speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Who ARE those awful looking women (at least I think the one on the left is female, but I'm by no means sure)?
Draping a Hefty bag over the trash can doesn't really disguise the fact that it's still a surfboard on a trash can . . .
Gnarly, man, like totally radical Eucharist, dude...
GAG! Now that is a sight that would curdle stale liver!
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