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ORD ON THE Street is that Mtr Jonah of the OCA told the new Anglicans that he would break off Ecumenical Discussions with ECUSA and take ‘em up with them. I can’t find the transcript on the OCA site and can’t bring myself to listen. So maybe. (Although in the past not finding the transcript [...]

Christ is Risen! HOSE OF You following the Anglican Schism In Process will be interested to note that Speakers have been announced for ACNA Assembly. Pastor Rick Warren, Metropolitan Jonah, and the Rev. Todd Hunter have agreed to be among those addressing the organizing Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America scheduled for June [...]

NCIENT FAITH Radio announces a new podcast: Conversations with Metropolitan Jonah. The OCA’s press release, posted on their site, indicates that His Beatitude pushes a few buttons in the pilot episode: In the first installment of “Conversations,” Metropolitan Jonah discusses the vision of a united North American Orthodox Church, the principle that the local church [...]

Mark reports that the Very Prot Deposed Bishop Bob Duncan, formerly of Pittsburgh, has been preaching at the Self-Ruled Antiochian Village and that the very Catholic Deposed Bishop Jack Iker, formerly of Fort Worth, has been seen with Mtr. Jonah of the OCA. Both friendships seem rather more geographic than ecclesiastic. But given the links [...]

OUND This on the Metropolitan’s Facebook Fan Page… one notes that like Bishop Benjamin, the Metropolitan can actually smile!

OOD MAY YET Come from all this crap in the OCA. The proposal for the merger of the OCA with the AOA is once again on the table, at least in the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania. And the steps seem to be following through already: there is no new Metropolitan being elected. Instead there is [...]

IS BEATITUDE, The OCA’s Metropolitan +Herman Retires! That’s what a good sex and money scandal can do to ya…

HIS Encyclical letter from the Orthodox Church in America’s Synod of Bishops is pretty amazing for its candour and honesty – but not for its completeness. It focuses on the finances and not on the sex issues: and, lo, I think Institutional Orthodoxy is once again playing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” Recognizing our weakness, and [...]