Standing for righteousness in the Anglican Communion

Archbishop of Uganda Henry Luke Orombi has added his voice to those of Anglicans around the world who are unwilling to going along with the continued antics of The Episcopal Church (TEC). In a meeting last month, bishops of TEC--the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion--expressed their "passionate desire" to remain full members of the Communion, yet refused to stop outright from consecrating active homosexuals as bishops.

While speaking at Church of the Apostles in Daphne, Alabama, Archbishop Orombi declared that the U.S. bishops had "tossed the faith overboard." In addition, his office issued a statement proclaiming that the Americans "have decided to walk apart" and running through a list of betrayals of the international Anglican body by the U.S. branch.

Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester and a leading member of the Church of England, seems to agree. He suggested that he might boycott next year's Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade worldwide gathering of Anglican bishops, rather than participate in full fellowship with the American bishops who helped ordain practicing homosexual V. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.

Meanwhile, conservative Episcopal bishops representing more than 600 churches met in Pittsburgh at the end of September to plan for a separate Anglican church structure in North America, one that would remain faithful to Scripture and in line with conservative Anglican churches in other parts of the world.