Ed: While Anglican Watch is firmly pro-choice, we reject any effort to suppress First Amendment rights by any means. Moreover, given the denomination’s propensity for calling those who report sexual assault or other misconduct “domestic terrorists,” we find it ironic that Mr. Lovelace likely will remain a welcome member of the church CONWAY, SC (WMBF) – A group…
Hello everyone, and happy Friday. As you may have noticed, we’ve been taking it easy this week, after a flurry of news stories during the previous two weeks. That said, we’re back at it, and we’ll have a couple more posts over the weekend. But until then, we wanted to update you on Angie Solomon…
A small but appropriately noisy group of determined protestors showed up outside the Church of the Advent, Boston, last night in order to protest the presence of Dallas bishop George Sumner at the church. Sumner was giving a Lenten presentation on Anglo-Catholicism. Below is a video Anglican Watch received from the protests. Protests outside Church…
Anglican Watch, the unofficial watchdog of the Episcopal Church, today unequivocally condemned the Marion, Kansas, police department for its search and seizure of the offices of the Marion County Record. Moreover, the police searched the homes of the newspaper’s publishers. “We reject the police department’s claims that it was investigating potential criminal conduct by the newspaper,” says Anglican Watch editor…
According to The Virginian Pilot and My Christian Daily, John Blanchard, pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach, Va, had protestor Jamie Thomas, 43, handcuffed outside the church and taken before a magistrate last Sunday. He was charged with stalking and disclosing expunged police records — both misdemeanors — and was released on his own…
Anglicanism has its roots not just in Henry VIII’s split with Rome, but also, and perhaps more importantly, in the so-called Elizabethan Compromise. As such, the Elizabethan Compromise contains within its underlying paradigm lessons for a pluralistic society, which are increasingly important for the United States in light of yesterday’s coup attempt. What on earth…
As a former attorney and ardent follower of issues and trends at the US Supreme Court, this author knows that the court has a remarkable ability to center itself over time. The outcome of individual cases also can be difficult to predict, for justices often form alliances that to us seem unusual, sometimes resulting in…