Emphasizing the Anglican primates' agreement that "bishops are to respect the boundaries of one another's dioceses and provinces," Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold of the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) has sent a...
Category: October 2004, Middle East, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate
The New Westminster diocesan council, in a letter sent by Bishop Michael Ingham, has asked two priests who have left the Anglican Church of Canada over the issue of same-sex blessings to vacate the church buildings that they are...
Category: September 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate

St. Catharines, Ont. Deeply divided over liberalizing church attitudes toward homosexuals, Canadian Anglicans meeting at their triennial governing convention here voted to defer a decision on whether gay relationships should be...
Category: June/July 2004, General Synod 2004, Sexuality debate
A new book, Living Together in the Church: Including Our Differences, released one month before General Synod, explores ways Anglicans can stay together in the church they love, even as they disagree over homosexuality. ...
Category: June/July 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate
While questions of alternate episcopal oversight – bishops ministering to disgruntled parishes in dioceses that are not their own – continue to plague the church, a conservative Canadian bishop has been invited to...
Category: June/July 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate
The arrangement made by the diocese of New Westminster to provide pastoral care through an episcopal visitor to churches opposed to same-sex blessings has worked for the first parish which accepted this special ministry, its...
Category: June/July 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate
Parishes that walked out when their diocesan synod approved in 2002 a motion in favour of same-sex blessings expressed disappointment that the meeting of General Synod would take place without a clear answer to their request for...
Category: June/July 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate
Anglicans wanting to get online information about General Synod 2004 might have entered "General Synod 2004" or the acronym "gs2004" into a search engine.
Either way they were likely to come across two similarly-named Web sites:...
Category: June/July 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was among those who welcomed the decision by General Synod to defer a decision on the issue of same-sex blessings until 2007, saying it "offers hope for the continuing collegiality of the...
Category: June/July 2004, General Synod 2004, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate
St. Catharines, Ont. The issue of same-sex blessings was like an elephant in the room at General Synod – not even the Canadian ecumenical and overseas partners of the Anglican Church of Canada who attended the gathering...
Category: June/July 2004, General Synod 2004, Sexuality debate