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AAC Adopts Episcopal Witness Program The American Anglican Council (AAC) announced today adoption of the lay outreach program Episcopal Witness, developed last year by the AAC chapter in Washington, D.C., and currently used in various parts of the mid-Atlantic region. This program responds to the essential need for both greater lay involvement and more effective lay action in the struggle to restore and preserve a biblically faithful expression of Anglicanism in the United States. It is designed to address the gap in communication with congregations where relevant information and resources are being institutionally restricted or stifled. The primary goal of...

Three Southern Californian Anglican churches came one step closer to severing their ties with the Episcopal Church U.S.A. on Thursday while maintaining their property. Orange County Superior Court Judge David Velasquez ruled that the national denomination did not have a valid claim of ownership to the local parishes’ land and buildings, Lynn Moyer, the attorney for All Saints church in Long Beach and St. David’s church in North Hollywood, told the Long Beach Press Telegram. The three parishes have been locked in a battle over property ownership issues with the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles since August 2004 when they...

Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and relief efforts are underway. The AAC will coordinate with AAC chapters and congregations to distribute funds on the local level. We encourage your participation in this important work. You may make a contribution in a variety of ways: 1) Mail your contribution to: The American Anglican Council 2296 Henderson Mill Road, NE, Suite 406 Atlanta, GA 30345 2) Make a secure financial contribution online. (Select "Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort" as the Donor Designation.) 3) Call the AAC to make a secure credit card contribution over the phone toll free...

After almost two years of "going it on our own," West Virginia Anglicans has officially affiliated with the American Anglican Council! We are now officially part of the largest and fastest growing orthodox Anglican advocacy group in the Episcopal Church. We are honored and proud to be working alongside the brave folks in the AAC! Click on "Continued . . . " below to read the full press release.TRADITIONAL WV EPISCOPALIANS AFFILIATE WITH AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL ATLANTA, GA – Earlier this month, the American Anglican Council (AAC), an Atlanta-based national advocacy group for Episcopalians who continue to believe that the...

The Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) made a presentation yesterday before the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) designed to explain the thinking driving their decisions regarding human sexuality. The American Anglican Council has issued a statement in response to ECUSA’s arguments.Nottingham – The Episcopal Church’s presentation to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) asserts a new gospel marked by theology and doctrine contrary to Holy Scripture and inconsistent with the historic faith and practice of Anglicanism. ECUSA’s statements were framed by specific arguments they have espoused for at least 15 years. Their profession that the Holy Spirit led ECUSA to consecrate a non-celibate...

Seven Florida Churches to Request Alternative Episcopal Oversight from their Bishop Source: Anglican Fellowship of Florida (Diocese of Florida Network of Churches) Date: June 16, 2005 Dear Friends in Christ, As you know, we have been working with other congregations to find the best way forward for us in the light of the continuing departure of ECUSA leaders from the faith once delivered to the saints. Now that the Florida Annual Convention has come and gone, the time has come for action. Clergy representing the seven congregations mentioned below are meeting with Bishop John Howard today at 2:00 pm to...

Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

Dear Friends in Christ, One of the dangers of becoming overly focused on our own problems is that we can lose sight of the bigger picture. It is true in our individual lives and it is true in the Church. There is a tendency for us to sit back and watch and wonder and worry without ever becoming personally involved. Whether we like it or not, the Episcopal Church is facing a crisis. It is real and it is serious. We all are aware of the potential for division and splintering that lies before us. We read all kinds of...

Members of St. Nicholas' Episcopal Church and supporters from churches around the city, state and nation began to fill the pews nearly an hour before Sunday's service. By 7 p.m., chairs spilled out into the sanctuary's foyer until there was standing room only. It was the final Sunday many of St. Nicholas' parishioners would gather together in the building they built only four years ago. Nearly 90 percent of the congregation is leaving St. Nicholas' to begin Christ Church Midland (Anglican Communion) after Bishop Wallis Ohl of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwest Texas told those who were dissatisfied with the...

Frank Griswold names the delegation that will make ECUSA's case for Gene Robinson and same-sex marriage to the Anglican Consultative Council next month:Writing to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church on May 18, Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold announced the composition of the delegation accompanying him to next month’s meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England, to make the case for the Episcopal Church. The Rt. Rev. J. Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta; the Rev. Michael Battle, associate dean of academic affairs and vice president of Virginia Theological Seminary; the Rt. Rev. Charles Jenkins, Bishop of...

LAUREL, MARYLAND(5/12/2005)--The Rev. Nick Athenaelos presides over a service at the new Annunciation Anglican Catholic Church. Worshippers recite a solemn liturgy using archaic language, sprinkled with "thee's" and "thou's." Some of the female parishioners wear lace veils as a display of respect. The service is led - as required - by males alone. Organized by a Laurel couple, James and Susan Mathis, and hoping to find a home in Laurel, the newly formed Annunciation Anglican Catholic Mission held its first service at Abiding Presence Lutheran Church in Beltsville on April 3 with about 18 in attendance. A few miles north,...

A Statement from the American Anglican Council on the Executive Council Letter to the Anglican Consultative Council The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) met yesterday and has announced they will refrain from "official participation" in the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting scheduled for June 2005 in Nottingham, England. In their letter to the ACC Chair, however, the Executive Council writes they will still send their delegation. We find it very disturbing that the Episcopal Church leadership met in seclusion, continuing a pattern of secrecy. In addition, we note that they seem incapable of acquiescing fully to the...

A Statement from the President of the American Anglican Council o Communications Issued by the Episcopal Church House of Bishops The Covenant Statement and the Word to the Church issued by the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops is insulting to the Primates of the Anglican Communion. While it aims at specific requests of the 2004 Windsor Report and the 2005 Primates Communiqué, it fails to fulfill clear expectations outlined therein. The House claimed to affirm the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral 1888, and yet they failed to repent of their decisions and subsequent actions contrary to Scripture as well as Anglican faith and...

The extreme conservatives, specifically the American Anglican Council, are not pleased with the recent Covenant Statement issued by the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church. Keep in mind that this statement was written by David Anderson, one of those exposed by name by Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold as lurking in the shadows when the Archbishops met in Ireland. What some folks don't seem to understand is that NOTHING will ever appease the AAC, or the Network (same group, different name). They want a split. That's been their goal from the beginning. The plan has been to get themselves recognized...

A Statement from the President of the American Anglican Council on Communications Issued by the Episcopal Church House of Bishops The Covenant Statement and the Word to the Church issued by the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops is insulting to the Primates of the Anglican Communion.  While it aims at specific requests of the 2004 Windsor Report and the 2005 Primates Communiqué, it fails to fulfill clear expectations outlined therein. The House claimed to affirm the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral 1888, and yet they failed to repent of their decisions and subsequent actions contrary to Scripture as well as Anglican faith and order....

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August 13, 2004 For Immediate Release August 13, 2004 Contact: Cynthia P. Brust 202-296-5360 Senior Episcopal Bishops Condemn Secret Meetings, Uphold Essentials of Faith In an open letter to Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, five senior bishops expressed deep regret that a pattern of secrecy continues in Episcopal leadership as the doctrinal crisis in the denomination grows daily. A meeting planned for August 13, 2004 between the Presiding Bishop’s Council of Advice and the five bishops was cancelled after the Presiding Bishop refused to allow non-participating observers to attend. “We feel strongly that a meeting of this...

Episcopal Church intact despite issue of gays Upcoming report to discuss if the Communion can survive Thursday, August 05, 2004 BY JEFF DIAMANT Star-Ledger Staff The Episcopal Church's confirmation of its first openly gay bishop came a year ago today, and Greg Ventura of Somerset says he's as angry now as he was then. ...Twelve months after the tumult of the Episcopal General Convention in Minneapolis, the Episcopal Church is largely intact in New Jersey and across the country. Robinson, who began his pastoral career in Ridgewood in the 1970s, has largely left the spotlight for the mundane realities of...

25 OUTRAGED EPISCOPALIANS BLAST EASTERN MICHIGAN BISHOP Special Report By David W. Virtue SAGINAW, 7/19/2004--Twenty-five members of the Diocese of Eastern Michigan have written a letter to Bishop Ed Leidel blasting him for allowing a non-celibate homosexual supply priest to function in the diocese. The 25 are members of the American Anglican Council of Mid-Michigan. In their letter to the bishop they expressed outrage that the bishop's action went against the teachings of Scripture and assurances he made that he would not act in this manner. "Despite being offensive to those of us who believe that such a relationship is...

The following link is to the streaming video of the news report on CBC TV’s July 12th Monday Night 6:35pm about St. Simon's. http://Vancouver.cbc.ca/clips/Vancouver/ram-lo/040712_angli.ram Title: Anglicans: Church Divided Gloria Makarenko, TV News Anchor: A North Vancouver Parish has been told it should find a new home. St. Simon’s Parish has been asked to leave its building because its minister refuses to fall in line with the church’s policy on same-sex marriage(blessing). Dana Bales has the details. Dana Bales (Reporter): St. Simon’s Parish is raising a question of biblical proportions. Who owns the church: the parishioners, the priest, or the diocese?...