Gay Episcopal Bishop

Source: www.iht.com --- 47 days ago
The first openly Gay U.S. Episcopal Bishop was barred from a once-a-decade Anglican meeting so he wouldn't become a focus of the global event. ...

Source: cnews.canoe.ca --- 47 days ago
LONDON - The first openly Gay U.S. Episcopal Bishop was barred from a once-a-decade Anglican meeting so he wouldn't become a focus of the global event. ...

Source: www.newsbusters.org --- 30 days ago
Pitching a mix of softballs and loaded questions, US News & World Report writer Jay Tolson failed to press Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson with any queries from a conservative, orthodox Christian perspective in his July 30 interview with " The Gay Bishop at the Center of the Anglican Storm. " Indeed, at one point Tolson prodded Robinson to criticize the worldwide Anglican Communion for doing little to stop conservative breakaways from the increasingly liberal Episcopal Church USA: You wouldn't even want the communion to bring an end to conservatives' efforts to create new jurisdictions or allow conservative jurisdictions (such as the Church of Nigeria) to bring breakaway congregations in other provinces under their authority? When he wasn't asking "how does this make you feel" type questions about his treatment by conservative clergy, Tolson presented conservative Episcopals and Anglicans as "unyielding" on "hot-button issues," forgetting perhaps that religious faith is predicated on beliefs about eternal truths that are non-negotiable: Does it appear to you that the initiatives of the conservatives' Global Anglican Future Conference [held a few weeks before the Lambeth Conference] are forcing the Anglican Communion to move toward a more conservative, unyielding stance on the hot-button issues? In all, Tolson posed 11 questions to the New Hampshire cleric, none of them suggesting Robinson's push to make Gay clergy acceptable is "u ...

Source: www.advocate.com --- 46 days ago
Gene Robinson, the first openly Gay U.S. Episcopal Bishop was barred from a once-a-decade Anglican meeting so he wouldn't become a focus of the global event. Anglicans on all sides of the issue agree: the strategy has backfired. ...

Source: www.sovo.com --- 53 days ago
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Source: news.google.com --- 47 days ago
Sydney Morning Herald Gay Bishop to attend church summit uninvited Washington Times - 39 minutes ago LONDON | The first openly Gay US Episcopal Bishop showed up for a once-a-decade Anglican meeting - uninvited - to press his case for the inclusion of homosexual clergy, which threatens to split the church. Heckle that symbolises Church split BBC News Repent! Biker's blast at Bishop guardian.co.uk AFP  - Times Online  - The Associated Press  - ABC Online all 714 news articles ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 40 days ago
Ever since the Episcopal Church accepted an openly Gay Bishop in 2003, there have been rumbles of a fracture. But today, the Communion still stands. ...

Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- 47 days ago
The first openly Gay U.S. Episcopal Bishop was barred from a once-a-decade Anglican meeting so he wouldn't become a focus of the global event. ...

Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk --- 27 days ago
Americans aren't dumb , and not really ignorant either, just "unaware" of the impact of their actions. This is the view of Ian Douglas and he should know - he is the Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School, Massachusetts. He argues that the American bishops are genuine in claiming they had no idea that consecrating an openly Gay Bishop would engulf the Anglican Communion in a crisis that has impacted almost every one of its 38 provinces. ...

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 47 days ago
LONDON - The first openly Gay U.S. Episcopal Bishop was barred from a once-a-decade Anglican meeting so he wouldn't become a focus of the global event. Anglicans on... ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 47 days ago
LONDON - The first openly Gay U.S. Episcopal Bishop was barred from a once-a-decade Anglican meeting so he wouldn't become a focus of the global event. Anglicans on all sides of the issue agree: the strategy has backfired. New... ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 27 days ago
By Daniel Burke c. 2008 Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England -- For five years, conservative Episcopalians eager to escape their liberal American church have been building ties with African Anglicans half a world away. But they have few connections with black Americans in their own back yard, say black Episcopal bishops gathered here for a once-a-decade meeting of Anglican prelates. "It's something that I like to point out," said the Bishop Eugene Sutton,the first black Episcopal Bishop in Maryland, "the historical anomaly of dioceses that have nothing to do with the black community going all the way to Africa to make these relationships." Moreover, Sutton and other black bishops here say that the use of Scripture to reject homosexuality in the Anglican Communion evokes previous eras' Biblically based arguments in support of slavery and racism. African prelates, however, reject that argument, and American conservatives say it is shared theology -- not race -- that motivates their alliances. "This is just another revisionist attempt to use anything to undermine the orthodox position of the church and spread the agenda of inclusiveness," said the Right Rev. Peter Beckwith, the conservative Bishop of Springfield, Ill. While the eight black Episcopal bishops here favor Gay rights in their church, most Africans from the wider Anglican Communion disagree. That conflict forms a part of the larger split running through the Lambeth Co ...

Source: www.freerepublic.com --- 11 days ago
CANTERBURY, UK, August 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gene Robinson has castigated a fellow Anglican Bishop for publicly disapproving of his crusade to inculcate "Gay" values into the Anglican Communion. In an interview with SXNews, an Australian homosexual news website festooned with explicit sexual advertising, Robinson complained that the Sydney archdiocese is "bigoted" because its archbishop, Dr. Peter Jensen, boycotted the Lambeth conference, held this month in Canterbury, England. Gene Robinson is the active homosexual whose consecration as Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire caused a crisis in the global Anglican Communion. He called the Sydney archbishop's defence of Christianity "ironic" given... ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 27 days ago
Over the last three weeks, Anglican bishops attending their once-a-decade global assembly wrestled with how they could keep their fellowship from breaking apart. On Sunday, they leave Canterbury, England, and return to their dioceses, hoping their talks at the Lambeth Conference have held off a permanent split over the Bible and homosexuality. "We seem often to be threatening death to each other, not offering life," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the 650 bishops at the event. "We need to speak life to each other and that means change." Long-simmering differences over what Anglicans should believe erupted in 2003, when the Episcopal Church, the Anglican body in the U.S., consecrated the first openly Gay Bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Anglican theological conservatives recently formed their own worldwide network within the communion that challenges Williams' authority but stops short of schism. ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 26 days ago
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another Gay Bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium. In his final speech at the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference, Williams said Anglicans need "space for study and free discussion without pressure" about whether to accept changes in traditional biblical understanding of same-sex relationships. He also asked churches to refrain from adopting official prayers for blessing same-gender unions. "If the North American churches don't accept the need for moratoria, then to say the least, we are no further forward," Williams said at a news conference ending the 20-day assembly in Canterbury. "That means as a communion we continue to be in grave peril." The 77 million-member Anglican Communion has been splintering since 2003, when the U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated the first openly Gay Bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Williams barred Robinson and a few other bishops from the meeting, and designed the event without legislation or votes, instead focusing on rebuilding frayed relationships. ...

Source: www.biblicalrecorder.org --- 27 days ago
    CANTERBURY, England (RNS) -- Allowing same-sex blessings and an openly Gay Bishop in the U.S. have caused Anglicans to be "ridiculed" for belonging to "the Gay church," harmed interfaith relations and severely damaged the Anglican Communion, bishops at a once-a-decade meeting here said Saturday (Aug. 2).    "The issue of homosexuality has challenged us and our churches on what it might mean to be a communion," the bishops said. "Confidence in the validity of the Anglican Communion, the bonds of affection and our mutual interdependence is severely damaged."     More than 650 bishops from the 38 provinces in the worldwide Anglican Communion, including its U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, are meeting here through Sunday for the decennial Lambeth Conference. Threats of schism in the communion have steadily grown since an openly Gay man was elected Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.     Many Anglicans -- particularly in Africa, where Anglicanism is growing -- believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality, and nearly 200 bishops are boycotting the conference, refusing to meet with North American liberals.     While Lambeth Conference organizers have discouraged binding resolutions here, the bishops are working on a "reflections document" that will state the mind of the communion.     The bishops' comments on Saturday were part of the document's fourth draft, which Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, said is unli ...