The mission of the Church is to be God’s Kingdom here on earth, to preach His Word, to celebrate the Sacraments, and ‘to show forth the Lord’s death until He come again.’ Therefore, the function of the United Episcopal Church, like that of every other part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, is to be a faithful witness […]
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The UECNA is run on what might be described as a ‘Bishop in Synod’ or a ‘Bishop in Presbytery’ system where the duties of governance are shared. This echoes some aspects of Ussher’s plan for a moderated Episcopacy, which was proposed during the run-up to the English Civil War, but its more specific context is William White’s The Case of
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This, perhaps, is not going to be the most closely reasoned of my pieces, mainly because there is a good deal of emotion involved, and also because as someone who read history at university and has a continuing interest in that field, I see the historical parallels, and fear greatly for where western society as a whole is heading. The
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Origins — The Episcopal Church Divided At the beginning of the 1960s, there seemed to be no end in sight for the post-war boom in membership for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Communicant numbers rose rapidly, while the number of baptized topped three million in the late 1950s. It was a diverse, vibrant, and largely orthodox
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Beginnings Christianity arrived in the British Isles not long after the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ. An old legend says that St Joseph of Ariamathea brought Christianity to Britain about A.D. 50, and there are even some old Welsh stories that St Paul preached in the islands in the AD60s. Whatever the truth of the old legends, Tertullian, writing
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Beginnings The first Anglican service in North America occurred during Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the Earth. It is recorded that he and his crew landed just north of San Francisco Bay in 1579 and celebrated Communion there. Further services must have been celebrated during the attempt made by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a colony in what is now
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We now seem to be well into the usual summer lull that occurs in most parishes between Memorial Day and Labour Day. In my own church it is not so noticeable on a Sunday, but midweek activities tend to take a bit of a hit, and it is harder to keep the regular schedule going. Other places I know take
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