1a) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/
http://www.northshoreoutlook.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=43&cat=45&id=263578&more=
North Shore Outlook Newspaper 
St. Simon's far from being a place of hatred

Editor,
I too would like to thank you for the insightful article on St. Simon's in Deep Cove.("Church 
Lady," June 3 issue). I am amazed that letter writer Chris Harris* should direct so much anger 
and hatred towards this very loving minister and congregation.  Has Chris ever spoken with 
Reverend Ed Hird? Has Chris ever attended this congregation? Apparently not. Neither Ed nor 
his congregation direct hatred toward anyone. They are simply a faithful Christian minister 
and a faithful Christian congregation who acknowledge that we are all sinners who all equally 
need God's forgiveness and power to live new lives. Despite Chris's apparent anger problems 
he or she would be very welcome at St. Simon's- for where the Gospel is faithfully preached, 
there is a "safe place" indeed. Rev. Dr. Don Faris North Vancouver

*http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=community/northshore&articleID=1646641

1b) http://www.northshoreoutlook.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=43&cat=45&id=263578&more=
Editor,
The Church Lady's article on St. Simon's caught the atmosphere of the church and its congregation 
beautifully. It is apparent from Chris Harris's letter that he/she has never experienced St. Simon's, 
or, the word hate would have been changed to love. St. Simon's is a loving community which reaches 
out to the hurting not only from North Vancouver but through a wonderful ministry in Vancouver's 
East End. Every Sunday a third of the congregation are east-enders who come to receive love and 
healing, from all types of unhealthy addictions, including homosexuality. Many arrive gay but are 
loved into becoming happy and finding the joy which will last for eternity. As a community that 
stands firmly on the truth of the Bible, St. Simon's would be guilty of the worst type of hatred 
if we merely accepted the addictions and refused to speak truth, in love. Stuart Spani North Vancouver

2) The Way Forward Conference
Anglican Essentials Newsletter
July 7 2004
http://www.anglicanessentials.org
http://www.forsuchatime.ca
Special Edition - The Way Forward Conference
From Noon August 30th until Noon September 1st, 2004
Bethel Pentecostal Church, 500 Viewmount Dr., Ottawa, Ontario 

Main Conference Page: The Way Forward Conference is a for all orthodox Canadian Anglicans
-- Bishops, clergy, and lay -- who are seeking to find a way forward together in response to 
unprecedented changes in our church. This conference will develop a definitive plan for our 
future and seek to develop practical ways to move forward together. We will cast a positive, 
reformed, orthodox, and renewed vision of Canadian Anglican future that is fully aligned with 
the overwhelming majority of Anglicans around the world. We expect this conference to be one 
of the largest in the history of the Essentials movement.

How much does it cost and how can I register? Register on or before August 3rd: $125.00 per person; 
Register after August 3rd: $150.00 per person; Register and purchase Teleconference DVD on or 
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are asked to read and affirm the declaration from Essentials 

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3) http://www.virtuosityonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1023
Posted by dvirtue on 2004/7/7 14:10:52 
Mainline churches and the collapse of colonialism
By David C. Steinmetz, Special to the Sentinel

ORLANDO, July 6--It's no secret, of course, that Christianity is an international movement. But 
it is an international movement that has been dominated by Christians in the developed West. 
Christians from Asia, Africa and Latin America (the region known as the Global South) have taken 
their cues from the settled churches of Europe and North America.

There are signs, however, that this relationship is changing. Take, for example, the recent 
debate in the United States and Canada over gay ordination and same-sex marriage. While mainline 
churches in the West have taken an increasingly liberal stance on gay and lesbian issues, 
churches in the Global South have not. With very few exceptions they oppose the ordination of 
gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.

The English newspaper, the Guardian, urged Anglicans in the developed West to "ignore the bigots" 
in the Global South and to continue to support gay and lesbian issues. But ignoring the Global 
South is increasingly hard to do.

At its triennial convention, the Anglican Church of Canada decided to postpone its debate on the 
approval of same-sex unions until 2007, even though the liberal provinces of Quebec, Ontario and 
British Columbia have already approved same-sex marriage. The reason was the opposition of the Global South.

The case for postponement was argued by the Rev. Canon Gregory Cameron, speaking on behalf of the 
Archbishop of Canterbury. Such a postponement could buy time for the beleaguered Anglican Communion 
and reduce the strains brought on by the unilateral decision of the Episcopal Church to consecrate 
an openly gay man, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, as the bishop of New Hampshire. The Canadians 
grudgingly agreed to wait.

The Global South is hard to ignore because it is the fastest growing area in Christendom. In 1900 
there were only 10 million Christians in Africa. Africa now has 360 million, Latin America 
560 million, and Asia 313 million. There are at least 30 million Christians in China, perhaps as 
many as 50 million. Korea has a large Christian minority and Korean missionaries can be found 
throughout Asia.

The figures for attendance at Sunday worship are even more striking. Archbishop Peter Akinola 
presides over an Anglican Church in Nigeria with more than 17 million members. But Anglican 
services in Nigeria can be attended on any Sunday by twice that number of worshippers. In 
contrast the Church of England with 26 million members and the Episcopal Church with 2.3 million 
have an average Sunday attendance of roughly 800,000

Christians in the West are well aware of the reaction against Western values by Islamic militants 
but seem far less sensitive to the anti-colonial thinking of Christians in the Global South. 
Africans in particular regard the imposition of the sexual morality of the West on their traditional 
societies as a new and insidious form of intellectual colonialism that must be resisted.

As painful as the cross-cultural argument between Christians in the West and Global South may be, 
it is unavoidable. One of the oldest tests for authentic Christian teaching is to ask whether 
it is universally accepted. The old rule was it should have been taught "everywhere, always, and by all."

According to that rule a theological opinion was thought to fail the test of universality if it 
could be embraced in Canada but not in Kenya, or in England but not in Hong Kong. On the other 
hand, it passed a crucial test if it showed staying power over time. Even then, it could not be 
accepted as correct if promoted by only one sociological group -- by men but not by women, by 
whites but not by blacks, or by rich but not by poor. Christians thought truth is by definition 
boundary-transcending or it is an error. "Local option" is another name for heresy.

Judged by the ancient standard of "everywhere, always, and by all" the international debate in 
mainline Christian churches over human sexuality is a long way away from achieving a consensus. 
The temptation of the liberal West will be to give up on dialogue with the more conservative 
Global South, surrender any hope of consensus, and fall back into the comfortable old ways of 
colonial thinking. We teach; they listen.

But falling into the bad old ways is a formula for disaster. Unless the emerging consensus of 
the churches over human sexuality is international, it will not last.

You can count on it.

David C. Steinmetz is the Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity at 
The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He wrote this commentary for the Orlando Sentinel.

4a) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/
http://andrewcarey.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=4
7/8/2004
The Church of England breaks trust
Filed under:
* Church of England- Andrew Carey @ 8:11 am

At the heart of all relationships is trust. If trust goes then love withers and often only anger 
and bitterness remain.

The website Anglicans Online this week dated the creation of Anglicanism to Independence Day on 
the 4 July, claiming that last Sunday saw the 228th anniversary of the start of the Communion. 
While this is a peculiarly American-centric view of things, it is poignant to think that if 
Anglicanism was born by American separationism, then it may well die under the same pressures.

But again, that is to adopt a view that what happens across the Atlantic is where things really 
count. In contrast, numbers indicate that Lagos, and Seoul are now far more important centres 
of Anglicanism than New York or Canterbury.

Over the past 12 months or so, since Jeffrey John was appointed to Reading and was later to 
stand down, and then Canon Gene Robinson was elected as Bishop of New Hampshire and later 
consecrated, the Anglican Communion has taken an unprecedented battering. Having survived the 
crisis of the 1980s, the ordination of women, the Communion was recovering its nerve. 1998's 
Lambeth Conference signaled the decisive shift in influence towards the Churches of the global
 south. The voices of the South were gaining recognition in worldwide Anglicanism and were 
leading the agenda.  Primatial meetings had become annual affairs and the conciliar bodies of 
the Anglican Communion were reflecting a desire to work more closely together in the struggle 
against poverty, in reunion plans with other churches, in the great dialogues with the world 
faiths and in fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

But the year 2003 was the year when mutuality gave way to recriminations, when the old canard 
of autonomy, which was deplored powerfully by Archbishop Robert Runcie in 1988, resurged once
 more. The unthinkable, but all too predictable, had happened in the form of the planned 
consecration of a practising homosexual by the American Church. The consecration itself followed 
no principled decision by a national Synod or Convention and defied the will and warning of 
the most senior leaders of the Anglican Communion.

While the breakdown of trust in the Anglican Communion had been going on for some years, 
those events of 2003 soured the relationships. The American Presiding Bishop had even attended 
the extraordinary meeting of Primates in 2003 and signed a statement which warned ECUSA of the 
consequences of consecrating the bishop-elect of New Hampshire. In amazing act of double-think 
that same Primate then ignored his own advice and played the lead role in the consecration.

On a smaller scale, the installation of the Dean of St Alban's, Jeffrey John, last week symbolised 
a similar breaking of faith. Less than a year earlier he had been forced to withdraw as Bishop-elect 
of Reading, after a widespread view was forcefully expressed that neither his household nor his 
teaching conformed to the position of the Church of England.

In the intervening months nothing had changed, and yet the hierarchy of Church and State again 
advanced his name albeit for a lesser post. The day of his installation, 2 July, may well become 
one of those decisive dates on which many lost their trust in the Church of England. The provocation 
of the appointment itself was immense. The lack of consultation was alarming, and the arrogance of 
the Bishop of St Albans in repositioning the Church of England at one stroke was breathtaking.

For make no mistake about it, the Church's default position is now that liberal teaching on 
homosexuality is on a par with the traditional view, and that a covenanted same-sex partnership 
- Canon Jeffrey John's definition of his own 27-year relationship - is as acceptable as singleness 
or marriage for its ministers.

During this period of reflection while the Lambeth Commission puts forward proposals for the 
future of the Anglican Communion, many liberal leaders have relentlessly pushed their agenda 
forward. The Canadian Church has 'sanctified' same sex partnerships, the Bishop of Washington 
has blessed them, while others like the Bishop of North Carolina have announced that he will 
do so. And now the Church of England also takes these first steps towards the same goals.

The inevitable result of such bullying tactics is the breaking of trust and the souring of 
relationships in the Church of England and elsewhere. The prerequisite to the restoring of 
trust will be an acceptance by all sides that the appointments to New Hampshire and St Albans 
are considered temporary aberrations, and that the adoption of local option on same sex blessings 
in dioceses like New Westminster and Washington is halted.

And then the debate on homosexuality can be conducted properly in the Anglican Communion on 
theological principle, rather than ecclesiastical personality and guerrilla tactics.

4b) http://www.churchnewspaper.com/?go=news&read=on&number_key=5725&title=Evangelicals%20to%20shun%20Bishop%20of%20St%20Albans
Evangelicals to shun Bishop of St Alban  No. 5725  Date: July 8,2004 Evangelical clergy are making 
plans to keep the Bishop of St Albans out of their parishes following last Friday's controversial 
installation of Jeffrey John as Dean of St Albans(…)

But evangelicals in the diocese complained this week that the Bishop wasn't listening and hadn't 
even replied to a recent letter from a group representing the Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship which 
met with him last month.

They believe that he is intent on downplaying the strength of feeling in the diocese believing 
that the controversy will die a natural death. To this end, according to sources in the diocese, 
Jeffrey John has been ordered not to give any interviews to the media(…)

Dr Philip Giddings, the convenor of Anglican Mainstream, said that the installation had intensified 
the sense of alienation from Church of England structures which an increasing number of parishes 
and clergy are feeling.

"This growing estrangement of parishes from dioceses will, sadly, impair the Church's wider mission 
to our society and make the task of leadership at all levels of church life all the more demanding."

He added that 'evident disunity' was always a hindrance to mission and evangelism, at a time when 
the need was even greater than ever.

4c) Tensions hit Eames Commission  No: 5725  Date: July 8, 2004 http://www.churchnewspaper.com/?go=news&read=on&number_key=5725&title=Tensions%20hit%20Eames%20Commission
In the wake of claims that the Eames Commission has excluded the voices of gays and lesbians from 
its deliberations [CEN June 27] comes new word that internal tensions centering round its Steering 
Committee and staff may divide the Commission.

Some members object to a perceived pursuit by the Commission's Steering Committee of "enlightened 
expediency" at the expense of truth. Non-Western members of the Commission are troubled that the 
steering committee has privileged a European worldview that allows canon law to trump doctrine.

Some Commission members are also concerned that the ACC staff will manipulate the proceedings(…)

5) South Africa ban on gay services      No. 5725  Date: July 8, 2004
http://www.churchnewspaper.com/?go=news&read=on&number_key=5725&title=South%20Africa%20ban%20on%20gay%20services
The South African House of Bishops has banned the blessing of same-sex unions, for the time being, 
until it has had time for further discussion and study.

In a pastoral letter prepared at the meeting of the Church's House of Bishops and distributed to 
the clergy in June, the bishops said that the Church of the Province of South Africa was "committed" 
to Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference. They also referred to the Primates' call "not to 
solemnise same-sex marriages but to continue in dialogue on this and related issues."(…)

The Rev David MacGregor of St Savior's, Port Elizabeth, a member of Anglican Mainstream-South Africa 
and editor of an Anglican website (www.contact-online.org), told us, "sadly the CPSA bishops halt 
between two opinions".

The bishops say "they are uncertain about same-sex blessings, implying that our episcopal uncertainty 
means you mustn't entertain it, yet! Until we discuss it some more! With this kind of apostolic 
uncertainty where Holy Scripture is perfectly transparent, who needs enemies?"

6) http://www.virtuosityonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1032
News : AUSTRALIA: 'We're behind you': Sydney backs Primates Posted by dvirtue on 2004/7/8 8:50:34 
'We're behind you': Sydney backs Primates
By Madeleine Collins, THE SOUTHERN CROSS
The Sydney Standing Committee has bolstered the heavyweight pressure being put on the Archbishop 
of Canterbury's Lambeth Commission to penalise the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) 
over the controversial appointment of Bishop V. Gene Robinson.

After a lengthy debate in late May, Standing Committee resolved to support the conservative 
primates of the Global South - representing two-thirds of the Communion - in their call to the 
Lambeth Commission to urge ECUSA to turn back to God and withdraw from their election of openly 
gay Bishop Robinson.

Standing Committee also supported the Primates' call to the Commission to invoke disciplinary 
action, if necessary, that could involve ECUSA's expulsion from the Communion.

It supported the Primates' view that such extreme action was necessary because Bishop Robinson's 
appointment in the Diocese of New Westminster* last year demonstrated that ECUSA had 'abandoned' 
the teaching of Scripture as it relates to matters 'necessary to salvation'.

The Standing Committee therefore believes they need 'to repent, and to rescind and revoke their 
election of Bishop Robinson'.  It also supports the maintenance of those parishes and dioceses 
'who are seeking to uphold the historic faith of the Anglican Communion as set forth in Holy
Scripture'(…)

The pronouncement adds weight to a recent show of unity amongst the Australian Bishops in upholding 
biblical truths relating to gender and homosexuality in light of the damaging events in New Westminster(…)

* interesting typo re the New Westminster and New Hampshire twins...

7) http://www.virtuosityonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1028
North Vancouver Church chooses growth over court battle
ACiNW NEWS RELEASE
http://www.acinw.org/
July 7, 2004

VANCOUVER - A group of North Vancouver Anglicans struggling to restore democracy in their parish 
have decided to drop legal action against the Bishop of New Westminster for firing its elected 
church trustees in September 2003.

The parishioners of St. Martin's Anglican Church in North Vancouver say they prefer to use 
resources for ministry instead of a court battle, adding that even a favourable court judgment 
would not likely prompt the diocese to allow the parish to govern itself entirely(…) Click 
to read the full article: http://www.acinw.org/

8) http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/news173.asp (Anglican Mainstream) http://gs2004.classicalanglican.com/modules/news/  (CaNN News)
- NEW WESTMINSTER: An Interview with Ed Hird… 
http://www.virtuosityonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1024
Sterling Faux, CKNW, Corus Radio Network across Canada
July 3, 2004
Faux: A couple of Anglican parishes in the British Columbia diocese of New Westminster (which 
is the Greater Vancouver area) who are being threatened with eviction from their churches because 
of their disagreement with the diocese and the bishop, of course, on the matter of same-sex 
marriages. Ed Hird is the acting Media Director of the Anglican Communion in Canada. He's also 
the Rector of St. Simon's Church in Deep Cove, which is part of North Vancouver, British Columbia, 
and one of the congregations literally being threatened with eviction. Mr Hird…Ed, welcome to 
our show(…) Click to read more: 

9a) http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1272492.html
Commentary: Five Good Reasons to Reject Same-Sex Marriage
D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., Coral Ridge Ministries
July 7, 2004
The wisest man to walk the planet-someone who shaped Western civilization-explained marriage some 
2,000 years ago. Maybe it's worth knowing what he said(…)

9b) Senate to Debate Marriage Amendment http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20040709/ap_on_go_co/marriage_amendment
By MARY DALRYMPLE, Associated Press Writer, July 9th 2004 WASHINGTON - The Senate wades into 
an election-year debate Friday over whether to write into the Constitution that "marriage in 
the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

Its strongest proponents say a constitutional amendment is the only way to prevent federal courts 
from hearing cases that challenge a federal law disallowing same-sex unions. With such an amendment, 
they say, a court wouldn't be able to rule that gay marriage is legal.

"Some would define this as the ultimate culture battle," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas(…)

10) http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/religion/article/0,1299,DRMN_61_3026086,00.html
Rift over same-sex ceremonies frays Colorado Episcopal diocese Clergy exchange volleys as church 
weighs gay rights By Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News, July 10, 2004 A private same-sex 
ceremony in April between two Episcopalian women has escalated into charges of deception, 
"secret protocols" - and even a taunt of perjury against a retired Colorado bishop.

"Jerry Winterrowd knew such covert blessings were being done," says the diocese's most outspoken 
leader of the traditional wing, the Rev. Don Armstrong.

He argues that Winterrowd, who retired in January, paved the way for today's disputes by secretly 
laying down guidelines for same-sex blessings 10 years ago - but testified otherwise during a 1999 
lawsuit brought by a lesbian youth minister.

"That's a bald-faced lie," Winterrowd retorts. "If Mr. Armstrong feels that way, he ought to make a 
presentment (church complaint) against
me."(…)

In Colorado, conservatives claim to have the behind-the- scenes support of about 40 clergy in 30 
parishes - about a quarter of the total number. Armstrong, a member of the Standing Committee, a 
diocesan advisory board, projects a $500,000 budget deficit because parishes are withholding funds 
from O'Neill's control, though the bishop disputes that figure(…)

11) http://www.eni.ch/highlights/news.shtml?2004/06
Pentecostalist pastor sentenced to one month in jail for offending homosexuals Stockholm (ENI). 
A Swedish court has sentenced a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement in Sweden, Ake Green, 
to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended 
homosexuals in a sermon. Soren Andersson, the president of the Swedish federation for lesbian, gay, 
bisexual and transgender rights (RFSL), said on hearing the sentence that religious freedom could 
never be used as a reason to offend people. "Therefore," he told journalists, "I cannot regard the 
sentence as an act of interference with freedom of religion."(…)

12) http://trushare.com/0110Jul04/JY04GETT.htm
Getting it straight 
Geoffrey Kirk tries to summarize events in North America

Now let me see if I have got this straight.

By a large majority (and despite a virtually incomprehensible speech from Rowan Williams to the 
contrary) the Lambeth Conference of 1998 resolved - amongst other things related to the Church's 
teaching on human sexuality - that 'This Conference … in view of the teaching of Scripture, 
upholds faithfulness in marriage between a man and a woman in lifelong union, and believes that 
abstinence is right for those who are not called to marriage.'

The resolution went on 'This Conference cannot advise the legitimizing or blessing of same-sex 
unions, nor the ordination of those involved in same gender unions.'

This clear statement of what the Church has always taught was treated by some (hysterically by 
Richard Holloway) as an attack on gays. Various bodies, including many American bishops, felt 
obliged to pledge further dialogue with homosexual groups and individuals, as though that were 
no part of the monitoring of the situation also recommended by the Conference.

But this, as it turned out, was mere window dressing. Talk was not what they were after.

Preparations were immediately set in train in the Episcopal Church of the United States and in 
the Anglican Church of Canada to do just the opposite of what the Lambeth Fathers had recommended. 
Rites were confected, unofficially used or adopted in a number of American dioceses, and most 
famously in the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada. Bishop Chane of Washington DC 'blessed' 
the 'union' of a priest of his diocese with a partner with whom he had been living for the past 
ten years.

The rites used in New Westminster and Washington are freely available on the internet. None of 
these rites was officially sanctioned by the Province in question.

Meanwhile, Bishop Terence Buckle of the Yukon (with the support and encouragement of other Canadian 
bishops and Primates from other parts of the Communion) offered episcopal oversight to those 
parishes in the Diocese of New Westminster which held themselves to be alienated from their bishop 
as a result of the unilateral action of the diocese.

Archbishop Crawley (Metropolitan of the Province of British Columbia) promptly announced that he 
was initiating canonical proceedings against Bishop Buckle.

'Bishop Buckle is acting unlawfully', Archbishop Crawley stated in a message to the members of the 
Anglican Church of Canada. 'Disciplinary proceedings against Bishop Buckle as provided in the 
canons have begun and will take their proper course … Bishop Ingham has formally inhibited him 
functioning in the Diocese of New Westminster, I … have required Bishop Buckle to respect that 
inhibition and to refrain from interfering with the life of the diocese of New Westminster…'

Lay people from the parishes to which Bishop Buckle had offered pastoral care and oversight (the 
kind of oversight, be it remembered, in other circumstances, encouraged by the first Eames Commission) 
understandably asked why the Archbishop was so certain that Bishop Buckle had committed an 
ecclesiastical offence, and that Bishop Ingham (who had acted without sanction of the General 
Synod) had not done nothing of the kind.

Said Peter Turner, a lay member of the vestry of St Simon's Church, Vancouver : 'When a bishop 
offers pastoral care, this is not something which should be disciplined; it should be lauded. 
We hold that Bishop Ingham and now Archbishop Crawley are acting illegally. A year ago we presented 
a legal brief to Bishop Ingham claiming that blessing same-sex unions went beyond what a bishop 
and a diocese could lawfully do.'  That legal brief, it seems, has disappeared into the ether(…)

But note this. No-one who has ever acted in advance of such a decision has ever been either censured 
or punished (like Terry Buckle). Ask Peter Carnley. New Westminster is Philadelphia 1972 and Perth 
1991 all over again. The evidence points to one conclusion. Those who favour the liberal agenda 
(and I use that term considerately, advisedly and
unrepentantly) are always eager to continue 'conversations'. Naturally
enough: while we talk trustingly, they act irrevocably(…)