The WebElf Report

- UTTER CLARITY– The PeeBee says, “He’s been a blessing.” Indeed, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.” (Isa 5:20-21) … (apostolicity.blog)

- AND THE LORD SPAKE.. Canterbury hit by earthquake … (archbishop-cranmer.blog)

- AKINOLA– Visit by Anglican Bishop Draws Episcopal Anger. Schori: “This action would only serve to heighten current tensions, and would be regrettable if it does indeed occur.” … (nytimes)

- DROPPING THE BALL over 300 years– Church History: America once an Episcopalian nation … (thedailycitizen)

- GAY BISHOP and partner to unite. Conservatives: “ONE more thing, and we swear we’re leaving!” Schori: “This action would only serve to heighten current tensions, and would be regrettable if it does indeed occur.”… (WaTi)

- BRAD DRELL: Scoop…Windsor Bishops To Meet Twice This Summer … (standfirminfaith) (more…)

- TOM ANTHONY REVIEWS Hugh McCullum’s Radical Compassion: The Life and Times of Archbishop Ted Scott, Toronto. Your “Red Ted” Factoid Of The Day: “radical former-Primate Ted Scott was in on the bending of the federal Canadian laws of consaguinuity”, allowing for the extremely anti-Biblical creepy cousin-love canon of Canadian Anglicanism. We’ve done some research for you into the GenSyn-04 Minutes, via the official GS-04 site … (t19, GSo4, BInky of Evil)

- FURTHER FIREWORKS ENSUE— Canadian House of Bishops - Message to the Church. Small Canadian House of Bishops group portrait (with +++Rowan) … (anglican.ca)

- TRANSCRIPT– “A Matter of Doctrine… Chair of the Primate’s Theological Commission Addresses theQu’Appelle Diocese Synod” +Victoria is also one of the candidates for Canadian Primate… (e-mail)

- TECUSA Covenant Task Force Invites Response. TEC Covenant Task Force issues Study Guide and Invites Response … (aacblog)

- LIBERAL ANGLICANISTAN: “The past three years in our financial life have been both challenging™ and exciting™” … (storiesoffaith) (more…)

Wednesday, April 22nd, A.D. 2007

Regular Religious News

Australian Jenny Platt, gives her mobile to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who gave an Easter greeting
to Jenny’s Father Reg Platt, who is an Anglican Minister in
Sydney, Australia, on Sunday April 8, 2007, in Canterbury, England.
In his Easter sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop
urged people to consider the Easter message of reconciliation
and forgiveness as tools to resolve conflict. (AP Photo / Steve Parsons, PA)

BENEDICT XVI publishes Jesus of Nazareth …. (speroforum)

+JERUSALEM Recognises Mutual Sufferings of Christians Muslims and Jews …. (christiantoday)

SOFT PERSECUTION IN UK CONTINUES– “Faith schools should be banned to stop religious groups indoctrinating children, teachers will say today.” …. (24dash)

ANGLICAN PRIEST & Father of slain student says healing not easy …. (canoe.ca)

CALL FOR laws to protect holy relics …. (timescolumns)

CHINA: Christians being forced to have abortions …. (speroforum)

ROMAN CATHOLIC Church intervenes in Scottish election …. (archbishop-cranmer.blog) (more…)

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- MARK STEYN: A Culture of Passivity … (instapundit)

- ECHOES HEARD at Virginia Tech. By Lee Harding … (Bearblog)

- THE FAITH of Cho Seung-Hui uncertain, but not that of many of his victims … (CT)

- ARE THERE worse things than dying? The soft cowardice of low expectations … (shaidle.blog)

- AMERICAN DIGEST: “The Gun School”. Bull’s eye– “In a very real sense, those students that died were sacrificed to the flaccid and unexamined politically correct beliefs of those charged with their education and their security. What they made in their yearning for perfection was a perfect “free-fire zone” for maniac” … (americandigest) (more…)

- A-A-AND THEY’RE OFF! The horses candidates for the Canadian Primate election 2007. Yessiree, crowding to the front of the line to head up the fastest-shrinking Canadian religious group … (a.ca)

- LIFEBOATS ON THE TITANIC: “Bishops prepare pastoral care plan for General Synod”… (anglicanjournal)

- BOOOOOM– Rowan Williams’ Wrong Reading of Romans … (Various)

- LIBERAL DC EPISCOPALIANS solve it all for ya– Chane & Calamity Jane Dixon. Liberals: Is There Anything They CAN’T Solve? … (newsweek)

- +++ROWAN SAYS the Draft Convenant Is Unacceptable Because It Contains Disciplinary Provisions; Lambeth Meeting Will Happen. He really stepped in it this time… (descant) (more…)

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- THE WEBELF REPORT Va. School Shootings 1.0 … (Us)

- POPE SAYS Campus Shootings “Senseless” … (zenit)

- PREZ BUSH– “Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Bush: Find Comfort in Grace, Guidance of a Loving God… (WaTi, CP)

- REFORMED PASTOR reports in: “Tragedy at Virginia Tech” … (reformedpastor)

- HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ‘blocked door with his body’.. 76-year-old Israeli professor threw himself in front of shooter … (LTimes, Lancaster) (more…)

+Andy of Canada tries his
Mr. Very Scary-Face™ on the
Archbishop of Canterbury,
hoping to keep him in line.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (R)
speaks at a news conference next to Archbishop
Andrew Hutchison, head of the Canadian church,
at the Anglican Church of Canada National Office in
Toronto April 16, 2007. REUTERS/ Mike Cassese

- LENT & BEYOND prayers for the +ABC’s Canadian visit … (L&B)

- BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS Anglican news of the day … (magicstatistics)

- ROWAN WILLIAMS spoke to the press Monday, April 16th in Toronto. Archbishop of Canterbury Comments on Upcoming Same Sex Union vote By Canadian Anglicans … (ap, sf)

- UH-OH? — “Archbishop of Canterbury Agrees to Meet House of Bishops”; Williams will meet with U.S. bishops to discuss gay priests, marriage … (Various)

- MORE FROM Rowan Williams in Canada … (titusonenine)

- WHITED SEPULCHRES– “It’s not just the Episcopal Church that has been dying for a very long time. The late Ted Scott, former Anglican Primate of Canada, once made the following observation” … (mcj.blog) (more…)

Picard vs. The Klingons

CaNN Commentary

Like some of you Anglican web-folks out there, I was once a Trekkie (yes, way back before boob-boo babies got uppity over that honourable term). Once, I could name an old-Trek episode within 5 seconds; I had all the plastic models; I read the books and played the board-games and knew most of the trivia. Hard-core nerdy goodness.

But Trek isn’t life– not only in terms of getting a life, but in terms of reflecting life as it is or should be. The Federation weenies are all nice enough: until you realize they came from a U.N One World military earth-dictatorship in which human nature has been repealed, and all social ills and war and Really Bad Stuff has somehow been outlawed, or something. Supernature is squashed into heaven on earth: the eschaton is immanentized. (more…)

+Hutch:

Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night

- MUST-READ: A STATEMENT to the Anglican Church of Canada from the House of Bishops of Rupert’s Land. Some backgrounder from a reliable source: “This one is potentially important as the Rupert’s Land Bishops oversee about 75% of the country geographically and make up more than a third of the national House of Bishops. Rupert’s Land comprises Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, much of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Arctic Quebec” … (Via E-mail)

- MAGIC STATISTICS: “Packin’ Anglican heat” … (ms) (more…)

- GENERAL SYNOD 2007 Special Report– April 1-11, 2007 Pre-Synod News update now online… (gsynod07)

- OH DEAR– Archbishop of Canterbury to Spend Part of Summer Break in U.S. … (aacblog)

- CANADIAN CONTENT: “Hutch takes a few swings at the Anglican Communion Piñata” … (mcj.blog)

- AN OPEN LETTER From Anglican Essentials Canada to the ACC Bishops. The .pdf version. And– April 2007: “The temple veil and the intercessor” … (anglicanessentials)

- RAD GEEZER ALERT, True Colours Dep’t– Former Canadian Primate: Stay Strong - Walk Apart… (standfirminfaith)

- EPISCOPAL bishops castigate Williams; Episcopal bishops score Anglican Church leader … (aacblog, wpherald)

- THE GLOB & FLAIL catches up with Archbishop Andrew… (magicstatistics) (more…)