This debate in the UCA and the Anglican Church has profoundly upset me the last few months - to see so nakedly expressed the intolerance that there has been.
For me the new direction to which feel increasingly drawn is to detach myself from the institutional church altogether, and to join that small informal band of people who believe in Jesus Christ and in the values with which He challenges us.
I have never before felt so strongly that the universal church has abandoned the teaching of its founder and no longer deserves the label Christian.
Ray Cotsell
From: Stephen Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new directions Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:22:13 +1000
The "influential" magazine in which the archbishop's wise words appear is for the organisation Forward in Faith
Why We Exist
Forward in Faith is a worldwide association of Anglicans who are unable in conscience to accept the ordination of women as priests or as bishops.
Forward in Faith is opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate for three simple reasons.
First, it is a practice contrary to the scriptures as they have been consistently interpreted by the two thousand year tradition of the churches of both East and West.
Second, we hold that the ordination of women by individual provinces of the Anglican Communion, without inter-provincial agreement or consensus, is a schismatic act, impairing communion between provinces by subverting the interchangeability and mutual recognition of orders between them.
Third, mindful of the unity for which Our Lord prayed on the night before he died, we are bound to repudiate an action which has willfully placed a new and serious obstacle in the way of reconciliation and full visible unity between Anglicans and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Stephen Webb wrote:
Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen in the media today over Anglican wrangles re homosexuality
He mentioned the Uniting Church on the ABC
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988272592.html
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s958302.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1002/p12s02-lire.html?entryBottomStory
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