WCC 9th Assembly: Desmond Tutu Feb 20, 2006 June 8, 2007
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Feb 20, 2006 press conference on church unity at the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This photo appeared in Touchstone.
Bottom of the Ninth Assembly: Touchstone May 2006 May 1, 2006
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The Recent World Council of Churches Assembly & the End of the Ecumenical Movement
The decision has been a generation in the making, and no single vote, speech, motion, paper, legislative minute, consciousness-raising session, litany of repentance, people’s drama, or interpretive dance arising from the World Council of Churches’ 9th Assembly, held February 14-23, 2006, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, can be accounted as the definitive end of its Christian life. The thirty-year battle for the soul of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the institutional ecumenical movement has ended.
Founded in 1948 to foster the reunification of Christian Churches, the WCC has effectively shed its religious calling, and in its place has chosen social activism in the pursuit of “relevance.”
Here is the article at Touchstone
Graceless Body Broken? : Touchstone October 2004 October 20, 2004
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Rowan Williams Struggles to Save the Anglican Communion
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to read of the death of the Episcopal Church without laughing. Homosexual bishops, crooked treasurers, litigious clergy, and conventions pleading for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom offer diverting entertainment for those not found within its pale.
Over the past year, the Episcopal Church has elected a partnered homosexual man as bishop of New Hampshire and normalized homosexuality by allowing dioceses to create liturgies for blessing same-sex unions. The Anglican Church in Canada also has moved homosexuality from the sin to the blessing side of the ledger, voting at its June General Synod meeting to affirm the “integrity and sanctity” of homosexual relations. In response, 22 of the 38 Anglican provinces (the independent national churches) have either broken relations or declared themselves to be in “impaired communion” with portions of the two.
Meetings have been held, a commission formed, protests and anathemas issued, ecumenical relations shattered, and the ultimate decision placed in the hands of the archbishop of Canterbury. It has fallen to Rowan Williams to keep together a divided communion over a problem his predecessor, George Carey, called the “most critical issue facing the Church since the Reformation.”
Read the article in Touchstone.
