Good questions! I not sure I could answer your first question in a fair and accurate manner. But the second question I might, maybe this morning in a podcast.
I believe that Bishop Todd Hunter was consecrated to the episcopacy in AMIA, and then he came into ACNA. Also, from my understanding, he was asked not to start a diocese, but to head up Church planting for ACNA, but chose instead to create a diocese that had no geographic boundaries.
I think you are right about AMiA. That he was asked not a start a diocese is new to me. How did he start a diocese on his own? I would think that would require approval of College of Bishops at least.
I have come to see that the Church erred when it began confusing the roles of men and women in the family, and in the Church. This does not mean that women cannot perform jobs in the larger society which used to be closed to us, and do them very well. We can. And it was 2017 or 2018 when the ACNA bishops issued a report on their study of Scripture to say that there was "insufficient warrant" in Scripture for the ordination of female priests. Discarding Scripture and the unbroken practice of the universal church is spiritually risky. As you say, this is not the only cause of the leftward drift of the church, but it is a major contributor.
Another good time for a mass exodus would have been when it became plain that TEC leadership wholeheartedly approved unlimited abortion on demand.
What was the founding ethos of C4SO? Why was it stood up? Why does ACNA have non-geographic dioceses?
And here's your answer. Enjoy.
https://markmarshall.substack.com/p/about-non-geographic-dioceses-in
Thank you Mark
Good questions! I not sure I could answer your first question in a fair and accurate manner. But the second question I might, maybe this morning in a podcast.
Well, one of them is the REC, founded in 1873, which has geographic dioceses within it.
I believe that Bishop Todd Hunter was consecrated to the episcopacy in AMIA, and then he came into ACNA. Also, from my understanding, he was asked not to start a diocese, but to head up Church planting for ACNA, but chose instead to create a diocese that had no geographic boundaries.
I think you are right about AMiA. That he was asked not a start a diocese is new to me. How did he start a diocese on his own? I would think that would require approval of College of Bishops at least.
I'm not disagreeing, but this is news to me.
I have come to see that the Church erred when it began confusing the roles of men and women in the family, and in the Church. This does not mean that women cannot perform jobs in the larger society which used to be closed to us, and do them very well. We can. And it was 2017 or 2018 when the ACNA bishops issued a report on their study of Scripture to say that there was "insufficient warrant" in Scripture for the ordination of female priests. Discarding Scripture and the unbroken practice of the universal church is spiritually risky. As you say, this is not the only cause of the leftward drift of the church, but it is a major contributor.
Another good time for a mass exodus would have been when it became plain that TEC leadership wholeheartedly approved unlimited abortion on demand.