Showing posts with label Anglican Church in Aotearoa. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

SECOND DIOCESE IN ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND AND POLYNESIA SAYS NO TO THE ANGLICAN COVENANT

From Bosco Peters at Liturgy blog:
Breaking news (thanks to Rev. Ngira Simmonds) on the Eve of Pentecost the second Episcopal Unit (cf. diocese) in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has rejected the Anglican Covenant:

Read the entire statement at Bosco's blog. I especially like the following words:
■In terms of our shared Mihingare and Anglican heritage, our call to communion, and our call to ministry and mission, the Covenant offers us nothing new or more compelling than the Spiritual Covenant that we already have with each other through faith in Jesus Christ;

Yes! Thank you, my dear fellow Anglicans in Te Hui Amorangi o Te Tairawhiti Episcopal Unit in New Zealand.