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VirtueOnline interviews the new interim President of Trinity School for Ministry, the Rt. Rev. John D. Rodgers. By David W. Virtuewww.virtueonline.org6/6/2007 VOL: You are back at TSM your old stomping ground as interim president(for a year) following the resignation of Dr. Paul Zahl. Are you surprised at this move? RODGERS: We were all completely and utterly surprised. We were all saddened. Paul and Mary have been strong supporters of TSM from its inception. It would seem that Paul felt that he had made the contribution that he could make and wanted to move on to where he could make his...

In response to the decisions by the Archbishop of Canterbury regarding invitations to the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the Rt. Rev. Charles H. Murphy, III, Chairman of the AMiA, in consultation with the Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini, Primate of the Province of Rwanda, issues the following statement. The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, announced this week that invitations to the 2008 Lambeth Conference have been issued to over 800 bishops in the Communion, including all but one of the bishops in The Episcopal Church (TEC). I believe that this action and decision by Archbishop Williams indicates...

KINGSPORT - The president of the Anglican Mission in the Americas will speak at a meeting Tuesday on establishing an Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) church or churches in the region. The meeting is open to interested members of the public. The meeting begins at 7 p.m., Tuesday at Meadow View Conference Resort and Convention Center and will include a service of Evening Prayer and an informational talk by the AMiA president, the Rev. Canon Ellis Brust, of Pawley’s Island, S.C. The Rev. Chris Cairns, vicar of Apostles Anglican Church in Knoxville, which is affiliated with the AMiA, also...

Main Entry: pri'mate Etymology: Middle English primat, from Old French, from Medieval Latin primat-, primas archbishop, from Latin, leader, from primus Date: 13th century 1 often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, group of provinces, or a nation2 archaic : one first in authority or rank : LEADER 3 [New Latin Primates, from Latin, plural of primat-, primas] : any of an order (Primates) of mammals comprising humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers) -pri'mate-ship \-*ship\ noun --pri-ma'tial \pr*-*m*-sh*l\ adjective

Is the booming Anglican Mission in America effectively re-embracing its original policy of accepting women priests? Some may claim it is – and some distraught AMiA clergy certainly fear it is – following a change announced with little fanfare at the AMiA’s seventh annual Winter Conference, which opened with a Eucharist attended by some 1,600 persons January 17 and concluded January 20 in Jacksonville, Florida. The Anglican Mission, it seems, is now to be part of a larger international structure, overseen by a single AMiA bishop, that includes a second American wing that has female priests. The AMiA is of...

Terrorism Tehran-style Courier Mail, Australia - Jan 21, 2007 YOU know it's not business as usual when prosecutors from one country file a criminal indictment against another country's head of state. But that's precisely what happened late last year when Argentine authorities laid terrorism charges against former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. In open court, Rafsanjani and other retired Iranian government officials were formally accused of masterminding the bombing of a Jewish community centre in 1994. The AMIA building in Buenos Aires was flattened in an explosion that killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 other civilians. But despite...

It is time for the great expansion, says AMIA leader The AMIA recently held its Seventh Annual Winter Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. VirtueOnline interviewed Chuck Murphy Bishop and Chairman of the AMIA By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org 1/21/2007 He looks the picture of health. His heart troubles are behind him. At 59, the Rt. Rev. Charles "Chuck" Murphy seems in no danger of having a midlife crisis. And while the Mission (AMiA) he started in 2000 is going through the growing pains that most organizations go through, he and they are poised for new growth. The man in charge is...

http://tinyurl.com/wqmw4 St. John's Anglican Church, a congregation established in May 2004 by former Episcopalians, announced Thursday its formal alliance with the evangelical Anglican Mission in America. The decision makes the group, which meets weekly at Park City Academy, Utah's first AMiA affiliate. "We were looking for an authentic path in the Anglican world that we could join, whose goal was the same as ours," says the Rev. Christopher Seddon of St. John's. The organization's mission, one rooted in outreach to the unchurched and strict adherence to scripture, "fit the bill in so many ways." AMiA, founded in 2000 and based...

More than any other faithful Anglican body outside the U.S. Episcopal Church at the moment, the Anglican Mission in America seems to excel at church planting. TCC invited Bishop Chuck Murphy to explain for the benefit of all CHALLENGE readers the AMiA’s approach to this core aspect of the Church’s mission. Read the entire article in Adobe PDF format here: http://www.challengeonline.org/pdf/church-planting_AMiA.pdf

Speaking of hysteria on the Episcopal left, this guy wants Dr. Williams to come down on Nigeria and Uganda like a ton of gender-neutral Bibles: The Anglican Communion is based on a system of trust and a confederation of sovereign provinces. According to Anglican Canon Law and tradition, no Anglican province is permitted to violate the sovereignty of another. Since 1789, ECUSA has been the sole representative of the See of Canterbury in the United States and therefore is the sovereign province in the United States. In recent years, primarily due to the consecration of His Grace, Bishop Gene Robinson...

The Journey of Christ Church, Plano: Part III Peter Akinola was dressed in a brilliant white caftan with pajama-style pants. His outfit was clearly and beautifully Nigerian: it was made of silk and cotton and heavily embroidered. He wore a simple wooden pectoral cross on a dark string around his neck. He had a simple white silk headdress on... and an elfish grin on his dark face. He said, "I came down dressed incognito... " Indeed, while he was the most visible person in the hotel lobby, no one would have thought he was the leader of nearly 18 million...

The "culture wars" have raged for years now, but nowhere is the schism more apparent than in the Episcopal Church. When the Episcopal House of Bishops elected an openly gay bishop in 2003, it had a polarizing effect within the church. Now a new group, the Anglican Mission in America, is building congregations across the nation that reach out to disaffected Episcopalians. The Rev. Tom Johnson, pastor of the newly formed Anglican Church of the Resurrection in Casper and Glenrock, is hoping to bring a measure of healing to Wyoming's lost Episcopalians next weekend when Casper hosts The Greater Wyoming...

ACKSONVILLE, FL. (9/4/2006)---Emerging out of the ecclesiastical wars in the Episcopal Diocese of Florida and the realignment raging in the Anglican Communion, two parishes have united; Epiphany Episcopal Church and Christ the King Anglican Church to form Christ Church, Anglican of Jacksonville. The merger will bring together 300 Anglicans, mostly former Episcopalians, under the ecclesiastical authority of the Anglican Mission in America (AMIA) and their new Bishop, Connecticut-based, the Rt. Rev. Thad Barnum. In describing the new church's ecclesiology, The Rev. Dr. Robert Sanders said this: "We will be a church thoroughly grounded in the historic Anglican tradition with its...

The canon Missioner for the Diocese of Colorado who is in charge of congregational development for the diocese, says that as many as 12 parishes will close with three already having made the decision to shut down. He calls it "holy dying." He also blames it on "National Church issues". Lou Blanchard, known unaffectionately as the "Grim Reaper of Church Growth" by an orthodox priest in the diocese, announced this week that St. Francis, Colorado Springs has made the decision to close after declining over several years for many reasons including National Church Issues. Their final service will be on...

The Church of the Good Shepherd, Davidson, NC Review of the Senior Pastor Hiring Process The vestry has put together a 3-phase process for finding a senior pastor: Ø Identification Ø Screening Ø Weekend Visit First Phase: Identification During this phase, names of potentially suitable candidates are submitted to the vestry. Currently, 8 names have been submitted. Names of candidates can be submitted by anyone in the congregation. If the members of the vestry believe that the person would be a suitable candidate, they move on to the second phase. Second Phase: Screening During this phase, the vestry first determines...

The Common Cause Partners, an association of conservative North American Anglican bodies including American Anglican Council, the Anglican Communion Network, Anglican Essentials Canada, Anglican Mission in America, the Anglican Network in Canada, the Anglican Province of America, Forward in Faith North America and the Reformed Episcopal Church, has proposed the following Theological Statement: We, the representatives of the Common Cause Partners, do declare we believe the following affirmations and commentary to contain the chief elements of Anglican Reformed Catholicism, and to be essential for membership. 1) We receive the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Scripture...

For a long time--and it seems to go without saying--England was the center of the Anglican church, and the emotional home for Anglican Christians throughout the world, whether or not they had ever visited its shores. Generations looked to the beauty and order of English worship (particularly its prayer book), its rich hymnody, and the inspiring vistas of its architecture. But things have greatly shifted over the last few years. The real thrust of vitality in the Anglican Church is now in the Global South, with burgeoning ranks of dynamic converts in Africa, Asia and South America, while less than...

[Something to annoy just about everyone here -- myself included. --sionnsar] With the transfer of some of my friends to the Roman Catholic Church and others to the Eastern Orthodox tradition and still others to the CEC and PCA and perhaps to come, some to the Methodist and Lutheran Churches, where they are free standing, I thought it good to indicate some reasons why I do not think it wise to make moves that place oneself outside the Christian Faith as it is expressed in the classic Anglican Formularies, or to put it another way, to be at odds with...

Where are we in the Anglican Communion and what should we in the AMIA be doing to help set things in order? A paper for the 2006 AMIA Winter Conference By Bp. J.H. Rodgers Jr What is basic to the Anglican Identity? Where are we in the Anglican Communion? Where should we be going? What might be the calling of the AMIA in giving encouragement in the hoped for movement in the Anglican Communion? Part 1, what is basic to Anglican Identity? It seems to me before we can make any thoughtful evaluation as to where the Anglican Communion is...

Jun 23, 2006 Reflections on the 2006 General Convention of The Episcopal Church The Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy Chairman, The Anglican Mission in America The actions and direction of the Episcopal Church, as evidenced in its just concluded General Convention, remain a continuing tragedy. The decisions reached, the language used, and the directions taken, are nothing new. Much of their rhetoric mirrors that of other groups that departed orthodoxy centuries ago, such as the Unitarian Universalists who continue to this day to present both the language and the theology of this latest Convention in their literature and on their webpage....