Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The Revd Todd Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press The place, this ancient Canterbury, humbles the pilgrim with the weight of history and charms with its Medieval, Tudor and Victorian architecture. People are drawn here: French, German, Japanese, American, British, African and so many others. There is something “holy” about the place and it has been [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press One of the most intrusive aspects of this Lambeth Conference has been the presence of gay activists. Integrity, USA is the umbrella organization, but six gay/lesbian organizations have come here, run a daily newspaper called the Lambeth Witness of Gay and Lesbian Christians, rented about 1/3 of the [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
From Anglicans United & Latimer Press From the beginning, numerous voices here at Canterbury have been saying that this was the Archbishop’s show – start to finish – his to win or his to lose. He’s functioned admirably as teacher and retreat leader. His lectures were excellent. He succeeded in keeping everyone here talking. Meanwhile Canterbury has [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
by the Rev. Todd H. Wetzel, reporting from Canterbury, England: Anglicans United & Latimer Press Thursday’s indaba groups dealt with the issue of homosexuality. We have just received the comments from that discussion and they are worth sharing. I share it in its entirety before commenting. Context of talks: “We met in a spirit of generosity and prayerful [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press Today’s topic is “The Bishop and Human Sexuality.” This morning at press briefing, we saw a video from the Archbishop of Canterbury, in which he stated that this would not be an attempt to revisit the resolution from Lambeth ’98 on human sexuality: I.10. “Ten years ago, at [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press The 5:00 press conference on the Third stage of the Windsor Continuation Group was preceded by an Episcopal News Service impromptu conference on the lawn outside “the Missing Link” building. TEC bishops Catherine Roskam, Suffragan, New York and Kirk Smith, Arizona, spoke first about the theme of the day: [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press It is amazing to me, but not unexpected, how God is weaving the pieces together here. Amid the most contentious spiritual warfare, He is here, and He is reigning. Let me give you an example. Our dorm floor has Eucharist every morning. As part of our service, we [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United and Latimer Press It has been beehive of activity here since I wrote to you last. On Wednesday evening, Anglican-Mainstream had their reception for orthodox bishops and had 70 Bishops and a few wives in attendance, 10 press and staff from Anglican Mainstream. After a Bible study on the book of Jude [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press Thursday was an amazing and wonderful day. The bishops and their spouses were loaded into busses at 7:15 am and we went up in a car. We all arrived at Whitehall Place and had a good half hour standing in the beautiful sunshine in downtown London before the [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press Yesterday afternoon happened at nearly a break-neck speed as I tried to attend the press conference at 1:30 and the Rev. Mario Bergner’s session across campus at 2:30 (which I did not make because I could not find a cab) and then the ad hoc press meeting at [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press We have just had a briefing with the Archbishop of the Sudan, the Most Reverend Dr. Daniel Deng Bul. He informed the press room this morning that he would come and speak with us, since the Anglican Communion News Bureau running this conference, would not schedule a time [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press It has been a full 12 hours since my last report. Our group sharing the dorm’s third floor had an early dinner so we could all watch the BBC2’s showing of a special documentary that was made of the GAFCON conference. Since we were at Gafcon, it was [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press q Will better theological education end some of the wars that pit one religious group against another? That is my hope. q Did GAFCON make the covenant more imperative? No. We will argue and continue to make our case with the Gafcon people after the conference ends. q Your statement [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The Rev. Todd H. Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press Christian pilgrimage is not about the secular quest for one’s personal identity. It is not about discovering, “Who am I?” Rather it is about reaffirming and enjoying the sense of purpose and belonging in knowing for certain “Whose I am.” Identity is not “discovered.” Historically for [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
By Cherie Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press Two years of planning culminated Tuesday morning as Father Wetzel and I boarded the plane. Dallas to Atlanta to London, we arrived in England on Wednesday morning at 7:30. We made our way to the train to Canterbury, sinking into the seat and watching the English countryside roll [...]
