Interesting News

I was alerted recently that a parish formerly of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC) has joined the Anglican Church in America (ACA). Christ the King has a gorgeous building on a nice piece of land in suburban Baltimore, and they are very near to another ACA parish, St. Stephen's. This is interesting because according to their site they still are into the "convergence" thing which the CEC was all about, and that would make them to my knowledge the first "openly charismatic" continuing Anglican parish.

In other news, the AMiA has decided to consecrate three new bishops. Now they just consecrated a couple last year I believe. Do they need three more? I didn't know they were that big. The thing that is strange to me is that one of the men elected, Rev'd. Todd Hunter, was just ordained to the priesthood in March of 2009! I personally don't think this is a wise decision. It takes ten years to become an Anglican, and even longer if you are in jurisdiction that makes use of the Prayer Book optional, or uses Roman forms for everything.

St. Paul tells us that the Church should "... lay hands on no man suddenly." (1 Tim. 5:22) I really could not agree with him more, especially in this case.