++Duncan to Anglican Communion: “There is a choice to be made.”

Yesterday, the Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, Robert Duncan, issued an open letter to the Anglican Communion.

There is one courageous aspect of the letter that I think is getting overlooked. ++Duncan is not presenting the current situation as an opportunity for the Anglican Communion to recognize ACNA in addition to The Episcopal Church. Instead, he seems to discourage that route and in clear language exhorts the Communion to make a choice:

The North American poet, Robert Frost, once wrote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by. That has made all the difference.” For Anglican Christians, for the Instruments of Unity (Communion), for interdependent Provinces, for ordinary believers, there is a choice to be made. The choice is between two religions, two roads, two cities, two sets of conflicting values and behaviors. In Deuteronomy, chapter 30, Moses sets the choice as between blessing and curse, life and death. For contemporary Anglicanism the present choice is this stark.

He is not saying, “Can I join the club, too? Please? Can I?” He certainly seems to saying the choice for the Anglican Communion is TEC or ACNA, not both.

Of course, as only Bishop Duncan can, he lays out the choice gently and humbly. Nevertheless, he does so clearly and courageously.

Perhaps I’m reading too much into this letter. His intent may be simply to urge the Communion to stick with orthodox catholic Christianity and to reject the apostasies of the Episcopal Church. But I think ++Duncan is not nearly as interested in joining an Anglican Communion with The Episcopal Church as people think.

If so, I concur. There is something very wrong with a communion that would not discipline the likes of The Episcopal Church.

BREAKING: Rasmussen Poll Has Obama-Romney Tied

I think this is a bombshell. For one thing, I believe it will strengthen the backbones of those politicians deliberating whether or not to stand up to Obama on healthcare, cap-and-trade, taxes, etc.

Obama’s standing with the American people has plummeted, and fast, even beyond my expectations. This may help stop much of Obama’s once inevitable agenda.

Expect More Obama Lies on Healthcare

The Washington Post confirms what I had already noticed – that Obama is in front of the cameras every day pushing Obamacare on us. It’s all Obama, all the time with even yet another prime time press conference this Wednesday.

I wonder what fibs he’ll tell this week. He told some whoppers last week:

1. The American people are “on board” Obamacare.
If they are “on board,” it is certainly not willingly as now even the Washington Post’s polling confirms.

2. In various permutations, he has promised that Obamacare would decrease, not increase the cost of healthcare.
Then why is Congress scrambling for means to pay for Obamacare, including an economy destroying 5%+ surtax? Why did the Congressional Budget Office say the current House version of Obamacare would add $239 billion to the deficit?

Let there be no mistake. Obama is seeking socialized health care no matter what the cost. His motivation is not to reduce costs, but to increase government control of our lives.

3. “I don’t believe that government can or should run health care.”

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Sorry, I had a laughing fit there. If anyone out there actually believes that, stay far, far away from Nigerian e-mails, because you are one gullible person.

And that is just for starters.

When Obama became president, I honestly did not think we had one who would rival Bill Clinton in his ability to say just about anything with a straight face.

Obama has proven me wrong.

Better oil up your lie detectors. Obama putsch for national socialist medicine will put them in overdrive this week.

Chuck Collins of Christ Church San Antonio Reports on General Convention

Chuck+ Collins, the rector of Christ Church San Antonio has reported to his parish on the Episcopal Church General Convention just completed.

Collins is a straight talking and resolutely orthodox rector of a (the?) flagship parish in the Diocese of West Texas. So I make a point to listen closely to him.

It sounds like whether Christ Church will stay in The Episcopal Church, even under orthodox Bishop Lillibridge, is an open question.

Another Exodus From The Episcopal Church?

Up to now, I did not think the actions of the current TEC General Convention would significantly increase the loss of members from that denomination. I thought so many conservatives have already left that there weren’t that many left to leave. Also, if what has occurred in recent years is not enough to make one depart . . . . Well, you’ve heard the jokes about the parishioner who fulminates that he’ll leave if there is one more abomination.

But this report from a South Dakota parish is making me think again. Good Shepherd, Sioux Falls has already lost a vestry member and three families before General Convention is officially over. This is only one parish, but it certainly makes one wonder what may be happening elsewhere.

Don’t expect much crying from the oh-so-inclusive crowd that now runs The Episcopal Church, however. There inclusivity excludes the orthodox. Their deletion of a conscience clause is just one indication of that. And many of them can barely constrain their glee at getting conservatives out of the way.

The Episcopal Church is certainly doing a good job of that.

Rowan the Enabler

Robert Munday has posted a good summary of how Rowan Williams’ persistent appeasing has enabled the apostasy of the Episcopal Church and led to this day.

I’ll add that whenever Dr. Williams has been forced to make some sort of decision, he has either given The Episcopal Church a pass or has stood with them. And his strategy, if it can be called that, has proven to be an utter failure.

Be Inclusive . . . Or Else.

The Episcopal Church House of Bishops passed a resolution endorsing the development of liturgy for same-sex unions and “marriages.”

Christopher Johnson has a sharp eye and noticed something missing in the final resolution – the conscience clause which was in earlier versions.

How inclusive.

MORE:

The reaction of Dan Martins, an Episcopalian who is hardly a fire-breather:

This convention (when the Deputies concur with the Bishops tomorrow) has abrogated every positive gesture it has made toward the Anglican Communion since 2003. Everything we did three years ago in response to the Windsor Report is down the drain. . . .


This is a dark day. It is a day that will live in infamy.