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Carson emphasized his Christian faith in the announcement Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson announced Wednesday that he is launching a conservative think tank to "engage with local governments and work with communities to find solutions to our nation's problems." "The American Cornerstone Institute will be dedicated to creating dialogue and smart discourse," Carson said in a RealClearPolitics op-ed announcing his project. "ACI will focus on promoting and preserving individual and religious liberty, helping our country's most vulnerable find new hope, and developing methods to maximize government's efficiency and effectiveness to best serve all our nation's citizens."

A Statement Regarding Upholding the Ministry of Faithful Bishops Written by Anglican Communion Institute Many Anglicans were convinced that September 30th, 2007, would bring clarity to the ongoing struggle within the Anglican Communion over the church’s coherent witness. By this day, it was hoped, there would be a clear decision as to the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops commitment to abide by the common teaching and discipline of the Communion; by this date “realignment” according to the definitions of this teaching and discipline would proceed with general and orderly consent. Obviously, this has not happened. But a new push to...

Different Gods Douglas Farrow There is a scene from seventy years ago, recounted by Karl Barth’s biographer, Eberhard Busch, that came to mind as I watched the sorry proceedings of the Anglican Church of Canada’s 2004 General Synod. On the evening of 22 January [1934] Barth was again called to Berlin unexpectedly. The next day he was a highly undesirable guest at an assembly of church leaders and theologians which was to make preparations for Hitler’s reception of seven representatives from each of the two church camps on 25 January. When Barth arrived at the meeting at St Michael’s Hospice...

ECUSA SHOULD BE DISCIPLINED THROUGH INSTRUMENTS OF ANGLICAN UNITY Remnant Church must remain faithful and live in “internal exile”, says Missiologist By David W. Virtue COLORADO SPRINGS—(4/23/2004) A world renowned missiologist and seminary head, says the Episcopal Church should be disciplined through the instruments of unity including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates, for its theological and moral apostasy. The Rev. Dr. George Sumner, Principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto, and former ECUSA missionary to Tanzania, told several hundred churchmen and theologians to an Anglican Communion Institute conference that “members of the traditional wing of the Episcopal Church should endeavor...

ORTHODOX LEADER SAYS COMMUNION IS FINISHED IF ECUSA IS NOT DISCIPLINED Special Report By David W. Virtue COLORADO SPRINGS (4/22/2004) An evangelical Episcopal leader who meets regularly with Global South Primates and bishops, says that unless the Lambeth (Eames) Commission calls for the public disciplining of the Episcopal Church and its Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold for his participation in the Robinson consecration, the Anglican Communion will not stay intact. The Rev. Dr. Canon Bill Atwood, general secretary of EKKLESIA, an organization that interfaces orthodox ECUSA bishops with leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion, said it was impossible to overstate the...

CAREY SAYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH HAS LOST ITS WAY By David W. Virtue COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Dr. George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury said the Episcopal Church was in peril having lost its way and needs to unite in humility to truth and an unflinching commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Addressing several hundred Episcopalians at Grace Church & St Stephens at the beginning of a three day conference on the Future of Anglicanism in North America, Carey said, “I love my Church, I love ECUSA, it has done so much good to the world, but it is in...

Can Classical Anglican Comprehensiveness be Reconstructed? The Reverend Professor Christopher R Seitz University of St Andrews A paper given at "Reconstructing Anglican Comprehensiveness," The Episcopal Church Foundation Conference, Birmingham, Alabama 4-6 February 2004 History Comprehensiveness is a term normally associated with the Anglicanism of the Church of England, or with Anglicanism as distinct from other Christian movements or bodies.[1] Only in the latter sense, then, could the term strictly speaking apply to the Anglican Christianity of the American Episcopal Church. Alternatively, one could argue that comprehensiveness as a distinctive feature of the Church of England has found its way, by...

A Request for Action from the Archbishop of Canterbury * We are confused about the need for elaborate canon law consultation in the matters of ECUSA and New Westminster, in order for the See of Canterbury to act. * The consistent plea of the Anglican Communion Institute has been for the Archbishop of Canterbury to exercise his unimpeachable right to gather or not gather members of this Communion. * We again respectfully request that the Archbishop of Canterbury, joining with the Primates of the Global South, designate the ECUSA as in "observer status" for Anglican Communion affairs, whether Primates Meeting...

"Anglican Communion Institute Statement" The consecration of Gene Robinson is a deliberate and flagrant act of disregard: disregard for Lambeth 1.10 and the Lambeth Conference; disregard for the Archbishop of Canterbury; disregard for the Primates; disregard for the Statement issued only two weeks ago, which clearly stated this act would jeopardise the Communion. This act of disregard is intended to show that American Episcopalianism is answerable to no one but itself. By this act, a major block of American Episcopalians have voted with their feet and have walked out of the Communion. We now call on the Presiding Bishop to...