[Magdalen] TEC suspended from Anglican Communion

[Lynn Ronkainen]

There is a TEC FB page with lots of comments coming through...
Lynn

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From: "Roy Murphy" <roy.murphy at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 8:07 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] TEC suspended from Anglican Communion

> It's my understanding that the Primate of Uganda made the motion on 
> Tuesday.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Has ABC Justin commented on this action yet?  Did he actually lead the
>> primates to vote on restricting/sanctioning TEC?
>>
>> I did read +Curry's comments about how painful this is, but is this a 
>> vote
>> with authority.
>>
>> In years past, as this has roiled over the years, I think I remember that
>> there was a majority of one primate who wanted to kick out TEC.  As my
>> feeble brain recalls it was somethink like 18 to 17 primates.
>>
>> What was the count?
>>
>> I am not in a mood for drama.
>>
>> Ginga
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Roger Stokes <
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > On 14/01/2016 20:50, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >>> What I don't get is why the claims of "the clear teaching of
>> >>> Scripture" aren't challenged more, based on what the texts actually
>> >>> say and to whom
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> ..... Scott, that's your EFM talking : )  And I say YEA!!
>> >>
>> >> I'd wager that 95% of world-wide Christians embrace 'clear teaching'
>> >> verbatim interpretations of "God's word" (what do you mean *he* didn't
>> >> write it?" Including quite a few Episcopalians...
>> >>
>> >> How I long for a Lane Denson+ (bless his soul) *take* on this one!
>> >>
>> >
>> > You could do worse than look at Rowan Williams's "Being Christian:
>> > Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer"
>> >
>> > Roger
>> >
>>