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| Call to ignore ‘liberal’ CofE bishops |
| 2007-10-18 |
| The Church of England is facing a rift similar to that in the US Church after hundreds of leading evangelical clergy were told to invite bishops from outside their dioceses to carry out ordinations. Members of the 1,700-strong Reform group were told at their conference that they must not be afraid to ignore the wishes of their diocesan bishop if he refused to ordain conservative evangelical clergy. The advice mirrors the situation in the US, where conservatives have even had their own bishops ordained by evangelical Archbishops from Global South provinces such as Uganda. The Rev Rod Thomas, the group’s new chairman, urged his members to resist the Church of England’s “increasingly liberal agenda”. Mr Thomas also called on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to recall invitations to next year’s Lambeth Conference issued to pro-gay US bishops. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 I'm looking forward to the anti-Bishop of Canterbury, and the exiled Bishop's Court in Avignon. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-18 15:07 |
| #1 they must not be afraid to ignore the wishes of their diocesan bishop if he refused to ordain conservative evangelical clergy. heheh. Pretty clever move. If you won't give us the ball to play with, Bob's got one and we'll just invite him over and you can go play with yourself. Whatcha gonna do 'bout it? |
| Posted by: Unutle McGurque8861 2007-10-18 14:50 |