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Bo on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: Carl and those supporting this ‘Sydney Plan’, Do you disagree with the statement that the presbyter/pastor/priest/shepherd/bishop is the office with authority in the local church,…

carl on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Moot: But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who…

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carl on Stephen Hawkins: God Was Not Needed To Create The Universe: the Universe can and will create itself from nothing Something cannot exist before it exists. Gravity does not exist without matter, and so gravity cannot…

carl on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: [360] driver8 [L]awful authority may order the church in any way consonant with Scripture and enforce uniformity Has Sydney been accused of acting unlawfully, or…

Fisherman on Stephen Hawkins: God Was Not Needed To Create The Universe: Hawking: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing”. “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is…

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Ralph on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Any comment that I might make about Katherine Ragsdale might well be taken as mocking the mentally ill.

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Rediscovering Christian Orthodoxy in Episcopal Anglicanism

The Rev. George Woodliff's landmark essay, in which he traces the evolution of the crisis in the Episcopal Church and makes the case for a return to a traditional understanding of Scripture

In a Far Country

The Rev. George Woodliff's review and comments on Ephraim Radner's Hope among the Fragments, and staying put in the Episcopal Church

Anglican Essentials and Our Future Call

The Rev. Dr. Kendall Harmon's 27-part audio presentation on the essentials of Anglicanism, the crisis in the Communion, and our call as Christians. Contains the most extensive recording available of Dr. Harmon's famous "Iceberg" analysis.

Little Stone Bridges and Why We Fight for Them

Sarah Hey's essay on the real significance of the battle over our little church.

The Windsor Report

The Lambeth Commission on Communion's 2004 report

Windsor Report Study Guide, Part I
Windsor Report Study Guide, Part II
Windsor Report Study Guide, Part III

The Rev. Sandra DePriest's in-depth study guides for group discussion of the Windsor Report

A Senior Warden's Lament: Why I Left My Liberal Parish

Bill Boniface's famous farewell letter to his church. This is a must-read for all concerned Episcopalians.

We've Had Dessert: Biblical Malnutrition & Today's Episcopal Church

Charles W. Slaton, Jr.'s superb essay, written especially for a lay audience, on the crisis in the Episcopal Church

ECUSA Attendance Data, 1992-2004 (Excel)

Average Sunday attendance data in Microsoft Excel format

ECUSA Attendance Data, 1992-2004 (Zip)

WinZip archive of average Sunday attendance data in Microsoft Excel format

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