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	Anglican Communion Institute - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Within ECUSA, a sure test of whether an idea is gaining favor and a practice acceptance is the appearance of a question on the General Ordination exam that seems to point in the direction of acceptance of a practice or belief that previously has been considered unacceptable.
		ECUSA's working theology is also congruent with a form of pastoral care designed to help people affirm themselves, face their difficulties, and adjust successfully to their particular circumstances.
		Indeed, the credibility of ECUSA's working theology depends upon the obliteration of the complex nature of God's love in the name of a new revelation in which the true nature of God's relation to his people and his world has been fearfully distorted.
	www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org /articles/ECUSA_God.htm (3001 words)

	Anglican Communion Institute - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ECUSA is sending unclear signals about how it regards the definition of the Anglican Communion set forth in the Windsor Report.
		If ECUSA wishes to stand by an understanding of Communion it believes is not accurately set forth in The Windsor Report, as some of its theologians have stated clearly (M. Adams, R. Hughes, E. Wondra), we urgently request that it say so with equal clarity and honesty.
		Finally, we must observe that if the ECUSA House of Bishops and the Executive Council affirm an understanding of "life in Communion" or of the Communion itself that is at odds with the rest of the Communion's own self-understanding (e.g.
	www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org /articles/Where_is_ECUSA_on_Windsor_Report.htm (508 words)

	ECUSA: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...ECUSA ECUSA The Episcopal Church in the United States of America (also known as...link: http://ecusa.anglican.org/ (official page) urches, but they have not claimed that...
		Each national church,...Bishop in the ECUSA, and is divided into a number of dioceses, usually corresponding to state...
		The Episcopal Church in the United States of America (also known as the Protestant Episocopal Church) is an American denomination based upon Christian denominations similarly based upon Anglicanism.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ec/ECUSA.html (383 words)

	FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is possible that people from outside ECUSA who oppose these measures will at this point simply throw up their hands and say that this is what we would expect from Episcopalians, who have always been a little long on style and short on substance.
		It is entirely likely, however, that the bishops of the global South will say to ECUSA that membership in the Anglican Communion requires conformity to the faith and practice of a worldwide fellowship of churches—even if that conformity runs against the grain of the culture in which Christians happen to find themselves.
		ECUSA will then have to decide if it wants to remain in its American denominational niche or if it wants to emphasize instead its identity as a church that is indeed part of a global communion.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0311/articles/turner.html (2866 words)

	Church of the Word -- Nottingham: ECUSA Shameless in Its Defense of a New Gospel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Their profession that the Holy Spirit led ECUSA to consecrate a non-celibate homosexual and bless same sex unions is deeply disturbing, and we reject the validity of such a claim as contrary to God’s word revealed.
		We note that even the theological arguments of ECUSA are based on experience (unchecked by the experience of the Church Universal), seeking to use Scripture to validate that experience.
		While each presenter expressed a desire to remain connected to the Anglican Communion, they offered neither repentance nor a desire to reconsider their actions by seeking amendment and holiness of life in order to be reconciled not only to God but to the Communion.
	www.pwcweb.com /ecw/windsor_rpt_aac_ecusa_shameless.html (1169 words)

	Anglican Journal: Cubans want to return to ECUSA
		The decision was fraught with ambiguity among delegates, who insisted that the expulsion of their church from ECUSA in 1967 was immoral in the first place.
		The Cuban church was part of ECUSA until 1967, when the house of bishops voted it out because of the hostile political climate between Cuba and the United States.
		The motion to rejoin ECUSA was introduced at the Havana synod by Cuban bishop Jorge Perera Hurtado.
	www.anglicanjournal.com /archives/2002/april/04/article/cubans-want-to-return-to-ecusa (611 words)

	wfn.org \| Cuban Anglicans seek return to ECUSA
		But the decision, said staff writer Jane Davidson, was "hotly debated" and "fraught with ambiguity" among delegates, some who insisted that the departure of their church from ECUSA in 1967 was "immoral" and an "expulsion." The ongoing need for a clergy pension fund apparently motivated the Cuban attempt at a reconciliation.
		Transitional measure According to the Anglican Journal, the movement to reunite the Cuban church with ECUSA stems from a meeting held in October 2001 at Camp Washington, Connecticut to discuss the formation of an Episcopal Province of the Caribbean.
		ECUSA has been friendly to the idea of reconciliation between the two countries.
	www.wfn.org /2002/05/msg00134.html (710 words)

	News from Agape Press
		The ECUSA leaders made limited concessions in response, saying they will not approve any new bishops and will not authorize public religious rites for same-sex couples for at least a year.
		However, just as the ECUSA leaders are refusing to prevent individual priests from conducting the forbidden ceremonies, Harmon likewise expects that the U.S. bishops will ignore the Anglican archbishops' request to withdraw from the Consultative Council.
		In the meantime, while the American bishops' actions and apparent lack of repentance have put the ECUSA at odds with the larger worldwide Anglican Communion, the Scottish Episcopal Church has recently stirred the pot of controversy by announcing its own willingness to accept priests who are in homosexual relationships.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/3/282005e.asp (506 words)

	CaNN :: www.anglican.tk - Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In making this decision, ECUSA has at one and the same time (perhaps again unconsciously) made marginal for its self-understanding the significance of its membership in a worldwide communion of churches that jointly claim to be a part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
		The women involved stated as the reason for their action that to wait for the General Convention to give approval to women’s ordination was to affirm in principle the concept that discrimination against women to the Priesthood may be practiced in the church until the majority changes its mind and votes.
		ECUSA will then have to decide if it wants to remain in its denominational niche or if it wants to affirm its identity as a church that is part of a worldwide communion of churches.
	www.anglican.tk /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=352 (3218 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		The ECUSA, acting on behalf of the Anglican Communion, would then make recommendations to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates based on the results of the updated study.
		The REC/APA Bishops had jointly produced public statements of disapproval, which were restated in person to the representatives of the ECUSA-a number of whom, including the chairman, agreed with the REC/APA objections and concerns and are involved in the new Network of the Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes.
		Diocese of South Carolina (ECUSA) and Diocese of the Southeast (REC) bishops have concelebrated, while the Diocese of Pittsburgh (ECUSA) and the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (REC) have transferred clergy without conditional ordination.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_28323_ENG_HTM.htm (613 words)

	N.T. Wright: "Communion is bound to conclude ECUSA has specifically chosen not to comply with Windsor." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In particular (references are to paragraphs of the Report), there is a strong note of sorrow for the way in which ECUSA has ‘contributed to division in the Body of Christ’ (7) and followed the pattern of America’s imperial actions in the world (10).
		It mentions (46) ‘five specific requests’ that have come from WR, Dromantine, and ACC-13, of which the first two are for moratoria on elections to the episcopate of those living in same-gender unions and on public rites of blessing for such unions, but again doesn’t quote the specific request of WR 134.
		In particular, we note Resolution A167, whose second and third parts have been widely, and in my view rightly, seen as reaffirming previous ECUSA commitments to work in the opposite direction to the main thrust of Lambeth 1.10 (there is no controversy, I think, about the commitment of that resolution to the ‘listening process’).
	www.acn-us.org /archive/2006/06/nt-wright-communion-is-bound-to-conclude-ecusa-has-specifically-chosen-not-to-comply-with-windsor.html (2635 words)

	Anglican Communion News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To ECUSA and the churches of the Anglican Communion, from the House of Bishops of the Province of the Southern Cone of America.
		ECUSA's action has forced painful division in the Communion and is a schism of their own making.
		It is our hope and earnest prayer that ECUSA will come to its senses, repent and turn back from its schismatic actions; but without renouncing their present position there is little hope of it.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/37/25/acns3735.cfm (474 words)

	Anglican Journal: ECUSA 2006 General Convention
		Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said he welcomes the concept of an Anglican covenant “as a process” that would indicate the church is “entering a serious and protracted conversation as to...
		As the Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA) breaks new ground and forges a future with such actions as the election of its first female national bishop, it is also examining its 400-year-old past and confronting an exquisitely painful issue — the church’s relationship to fl slavery.
		The new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA), Katharine Jefferts Schori, on June 18 called her historic election “a grand adventure” and said she has found that being a female pioneer is “less of an issue” once person-to-person relationships are developed.
	www.anglicanjournal.com /world/ecusa06 (649 words)

	Church of Nigeria:
		We are astonished that such a high level convention of ECUSA should conspire to turn their back on the clear teaching of the Bible on the matter of human sexuality.
		We applaud the admirable integrity and loyalty of those gallant 45 Bishops of ECUSA who have refused to succumb to the pressure for compromise.
		As for ECUSA, the present development compels us to begin to think of the nature of our future relationship, which would be determined after the ongoing consultation with other Provinces and Primates.
	www.anglican-nig.org /ecusaerror1.htm (386 words)

	Anglican Journal: ECUSA
		Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that he had been “profoundly discouraged” by the communiqué issued by Anglican leaders warning the U.S. church of consequences if it did not abandon its liberal stance on sexuality, and had found it “tempting” not to sign it.
		The Anglican primates’ directive for the U.S. church to unequivocally bar same-sex blessings and gay bishops is something that the Canadian church “will have to look at seriously,” according to Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
		Eight conservative dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) have told the Archbishop of Canterbury that they are no longer seeking alternate primatial oversight but would like a “commissary” from...
	www.anglicanjournal.com /world/ecusa (542 words)

	Answers In Action: Equal & More Equal Membership Offered in Anglican Turmoil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Williams' plan follows last week's American conference of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), at which the ECUSA leadership rejected a 2004 international directive, the Windsor Report, that ECUSA apologize for consecrating as bishop a homosexual priest in an active long-term partnership and refrain from any further such ordinations and/or consecrations.
		Instead, the ECUSA convention voted to apologize, not for ECUSA actions, but for unintended hurt; and to use "restraint" in moving forward with actions such as ordination/consecration and rites that would be rejected by the wider Anglican community.
		The ECUSA also elected as its presiding bishop a woman, Katharine Jefferts Schori, who supports the ordination and consecration of homosexuals in active same-sex relationships.
	www.answers.org /news/article.php?story=20060628152153121&mode=print (438 words)

	ECUSA Crisis & Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In our parish, the leadership and majority of the members of Epiphany experience our association with ECUSA as a scar on us that inhibits growth, hinders our message and mission and is a continuing embarrassment to us in our desire for unity with other Biblical churches.
		But the problem is the power differential: ECUSA along with the diocese claims to hold all parish property, real and financial, “in trust”.
		I believe we should stand firm against anything in the diocese or ECUSA that betrays the Anglican faith as we have received it and as it is defined in the Prayer Book and Articles of Religion.
	www.churchoftheepiphany.com /epiphanycall/ecusaepiphany.htm (1976 words)

	Understanding the Historic Episcopacy: Seeking a Genuine Historic Succession
		It is clear that the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) comes to this conversation genuinely committed to a mutually respectful partnership with Lutherans.
		The ECUSA does not claim this, and has argued to the contrary in its dialogues with Roman Catholics.
		Personally, I remain unpersuaded of the value of episcopal structure and the importance of the "historic episcopate." But I am persuaded that the ECUSA is a community in which the gospel is proclaimed and the sacraments administered, and that we should be in partnership with them.
	www.elca.org /lutheranpartners/archives/histsucc.html (883 words)

	VirtueOnline - As Eye See It - ECUSA May Have To Walk Apart - by Bishop Ben Benitez
		The Communion through its bishops at the Lambeth Conference stated quite clearly and overwhelmingly that homosexual behavior is incompatible with Holy Scripture, and it is not acceptable teaching and practice in the Anglican Communion.
		Many of our bishops, and others in ECUSA are saying exactly that, but as I read the Windsor Report, and the Primates Communique, there is absolutely no compromise with ECUSA that they are going to accept.
		In very gentlemanly language they have said, "If you folks in ECUSA and Canada cannot adapt your doctrine and practice of human sexuality to that of the rest of the Communion, then you have no future in the Anglican Communion, and the rest of us in the Communion are moving on!"
	www.virtueonline.org /portal/modules/news/print.php?storyid=2249 (373 words)

	To Set Our Hope on Christ: ECUSA's Hermeneutical Shift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It seeks to answer the Anglican Communion's Windsor Report question as to how ECUSA used Scripture, tradition, and reason to conclude that a person in a same gender relationship was eligible to lead a "flock of Christ." ECUSA's apology makes use of a hermeneutical shift in regards to the principle of truth.
		ECUSA's hope is that through "dialogue" and "discernment" the acceptance of differing opinions of Scripture, tradition, and reason will become normative with no ultimate judgments of what is right or wrong.
		ECUSA's enlightened hermeneutic permits individuals, dioceses, and provinces to do whatever they believe to be true despite what other individuals, dioceses, and provinces may believe to be false.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/religion/1450406/posts (1445 words)

	Anglican Communion Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bloggers have tested a lot of possibilities over the last year or so as it has become clear that many are not leaving, there is a serious debate about who the ‘home team’ is, and there is less sympathy for some kind of compromised Communion project.
		A group of ECUSA Bishops formally in compliance with TWR and insistent that it serve as a proxy for ECUSA as it decides its Communion status
		If Bishops of ECUSA do not decide to walk with TWR, they will look to the rest of the Instruments of Unity as though they have decided—not in ignorance but now self-consciously—to walk apart.
	www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org /articles/ECUSA_and_the_Anglican_Communion.htm (2121 words)

	Forward in Faith North America Realignment
		ECUSA adopted, in 1979, a canon that became known as the "Dennis Canon".
		The complaint states that the "action is brought under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to preserve and protect the unity and integrity of the property" of ECUSA and the Pittsburgh diocese.
		Up to now, when a member of the clergy left ECUSA he would be inhibited by his bishop and therefore his pension benefit (to the extent vested) would be frozen.
	www.forwardinfaith.com /about/na_realignment.html (4204 words)

	Times Community Newspapers - Two Loudoun churches leave ECUSA
		The vote to leave ECUSA, the pastors said, was unanimous in both cases, and both congregations have become part of the Diocese of Ruwenzori in Uganda under the leadership of the Rt.
		Cunningham said the Episcopal ECUSA's Diocese of Virginia, based in Richmond, announced it would be establishing a church in the area left vacant by South Riding and Holy Spirit.
		Patrick N. Getlein, secretary of the ECUSA’s Virginia Diocese, speaking for Bishop Peter James Lee, said in the cases of South Riding Church and Church of the Holy Spirit, the congregations had determined by vote that they no longer wanted to be Episcopalian.
	www.timescommunity.com /site/tab1.cfm?newsid=16127191&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6 (1156 words)

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