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The Mission and the Crisis is a regular column written by Timothy Sherratt, professor of political science at Gordon College and a former warden of All Saints’ Anglican Church. Each column summarizes the significant events surrounding the reorganization of the church.

May 2006 Explaining the nature of the Anglican Communion, the General Convention, the Windsor Report, and the Anglican Communion Network (ACN).Mission%26CrisisMay2006.html

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June 2006 Explaining the nature of the the Lambeth Conference, the vision and mission of All Saints’ Anglican Church, and the General Convention of The Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio.Mission%26CrisisJune2006.html
July 2006 Describing the results of the General Convention, the rejection of the Windsor Report by The Episcopal Church, and the requests of individual parishes to receive oversight from the Archbishop of Canterbury.Mission%26CrisisJuly2006.html
August 2006 Discussing the meeting of the Anglican Communion Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the summit meeting called by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, and the potential for Anglican unity.Mission%26CrisisAugust2006.html
September 2006 Exploring the lead-up to the summit meeting in Texas, the results from the meeting of the bishops in New York, and the possibility of the creation of a new Anglican province.Mission%26CrisisSeptember2006.html
October 2006 Discussing the reorganization of American parishes under African supervision, the election of Katharine Jefferts Schori as primate of the North American Episcopal Church, and the decision to create a new Anglican province.Mission%26CrisisOctober2006.html
November 2006 Exploring the relationship between the local All Saints’ Episcopal church and The Episcopal Church, the vision of All Saints’, and the mission of the local community.Mission%26CrisisNovember2006.html
December 2006 Discussing Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), the speech by the Rev. Graham Kings, and schisms in the diocese of Virginia and Massachusetts.Mission%26CrisisDecember2006.html
January 2007 On leaving The Episcopal Church, seeking and purchasing new church properties, and the decision of the diocese of Virginia to leave the TEC.Mission%26CrisisJanuary2007.html
February 2007 Describing the mission of All Saints’ Anglican Church, the Primates’ Meeting in Tanzania, and the potential creation of a College of Bishops.Mission%26CrisisFebruary2007.html
March 2007 Discussing the results of the Primates Meeting in Tanzania, the creation of a Pastoral Council to monitor The Episcopal Church, and the appointment of a Primatial Vicar.Mission%26CrisisMarch2007.html
April 2007 Discussing more results from the Primates’ Meeting in Tanzania, the rejection of the Communion’s requests by The Episcopal Church, and the opinion of the House of Bishops regarding ecclesial government.Mission%26CrisisApril2007.html
May 2007 Discussing the characteristics of Liberal theology, the relationship between human sexuality and justice, and the nature of sin.Mission%26CrisisMay2007.html
June 2007 Discussing the installation of Bishop Martyn Minns into Truro Church in Northern Virginia, the ecclesial views of Primate Katherine Jefferts Schori, and the liberal “progress narrative” of the direction of the church.Mission%26CrisisJune2007.html
July 2007 Discussing the efforts by the Anglican Communion to preserve unity, the possibility of schism, and the reorganization of the church.Mission%26CrisisJuly2007.html
August 2007 Describing All Saints’ efforts to obtain new facilities, the meeting between Father Bill Murdoch and Bishop Tom Shaw to discuss an amicable separation, and the election of Bill Murdoch as suffragan Bishop.Mission%26CrisisAugust2007.html
September 2007 Explaining the departure of All Saints’ from the Massachusetts diocese, the transition from The Episcopal Church(TEC) to the Anglican Church of Kenya, and the widening gulf between liberal and orthodox parishes.Mission%26CrisisSeptember2007.html
October 2007 On the mission of All Saints’ as it moves to its new campus, the consecration of Bill Murdoch as Bishop by Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, and the characteristics of the Anglican Church of Kenya.Mission%26CrisisOctober2007.html
November 2007 A review of The Episcopal Church’s (TEC’s) ecclesial decisions relative to the wider Anglican Communion, the Lambeth Conference, and the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.Mission%26CrisisNovember2007.html
December 2007 Describing the meeting between The Episcopal House of Bishops and the Common Cause (orthodox) bishops, the House’s decision regarding the authorization of public rites for blessing same-sex unions, and the grassroots-led realignment of the Anglican Communion.Mission%26CrisisDecember2007.html
2008 No. 1 Discussing the run-up to the 2008 Lambeth Conference; an update on the proposed Anglican Covenant; and news of further exits from North American Anglican provinces.Mission%26Crisis2008_1.html
2008 No. 2 On the state of the church in rural England, the need for Christian education, and the mission of the church.Mission%26Crisis2008_2.html
2008 No. 3 On the the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON), the Lambeth Conference, and the ordination of Martha Learned to the Permanent Deaconate.Mission%26Crisis2008_3.html
2008 No. 4 On the results of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), the views of the conference according to Bishop Tom Wright and Archbishop Nzimbi, and the Jerusalem Declaration.Mission%26Crisis2008_4.html
2008 No. 5 Discussing the creation of the North American province, Archbishop Rowan Williams’ criticisms of The Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Covenant.Mission%26Crisis2008_5.html
2008 No. 6 Discussing the results of the Lambeth Conference, the deposition of Bishop Bob Duncan from the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops, and the call for an orderly separation of orthodox and revisionists in the Communion by the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner of the Anglican Communion Institute.Mission%26Crisis2008_6.html
2008 No. 7 On the results of the the Anglican Awakening conference held at All Saints’, the exhortation by Bishop Bob Duncan, and the ordinations completed by Archbishop Nzimbi.Mission%26Crisis2008_7.html
2008 No. 8 On the beginning of the Anglican Church in North America, the Anglican Communion Institute (ACI), and the Anglican Covenant process. Mission%26Crisis2008_8.html

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