American Anglican Council

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The American Anglican Council is a group of Conservative bishops , priests , and lay people in the Episcopal Church in the USA and the Anglican Church in North America that has existed since 1996. He sees himself as a lobby group in opposition to the current church leadership and defends positions to which he attaches the term "orthodoxy".

Viewpoints

The AAC takes the position, "Christian mission is rooted in unchanging biblical revelation." He currently sees "specific challenges to authentic faith and holiness [...] which require thoughtful and vigorous response." Such challenges include, in his opinion, moral relativism , the lack of Christian ethical principles in the American public, abortion , unwanted pregnancy, euthanasia , and questions of sexual ethics. One of his ideas about "orthodoxy" is that sexuality can only escape the stigma of sinfulness in a heterosexual context (an opposite-sex marriage ) .

Controversy

Although the AAC portrays itself as a reform of the Episcopal Church, others believe that the ultimate goal is a "reorganization" of Anglicanism in which the Episcopal Church would leave the Anglican community and the AAC the core of a replacement jurisdiction for the Anglican ones Would form churches in the United States . The latter view is supported by a strategy memo that was leaked to the press and written by Geoff Chapman , an episcopal priest, on behalf of the AAC, setting out a detailed plan of action.

The American Anglican Council maintains close contacts with numerous conservative Anglican groups, including a. Anglican Mainstream , Anglican Communion Institute , Convocation for Anglicans in North America , and Global South Anglican . He also works closely with the Institute on Religion and Democracy , a right-wing organization attempting to influence US domestic and foreign policy and reforming mainline Christian denominations so that they become more in line with conservatives political and religious views of the institute. Both organizations shared the same office space from 1999 to 2005, and Bishop James Stanton of Dallas, one of the founders of the AAC, was also a member of the IRD's board of directors.

Management structure

The AAC is administered by a board of directors. This includes:

  • The Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, President and CEO
  • The Rt. Rev. Peter H. Beckwith , Bishop of Springfield , Vice President
  • Mr. R. Wicks Stephens II
  • Mr. Lyman D. Aldrich
  • The Rev. Roger C. Ames, Rector, St. Luke's, Akron, OH
  • The Rev. Frank Baltz, Rector, St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Marietta, GA
  • Mr. Mark FC Berner, Esq.
  • Mr. David R. Bickel
  • The Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan , former Bishop of Pittsburgh
  • The Rev. John M. Guernsey, Rector, All Saints' Episcopal Church, Woodbridge, VA
  • Ms. Sarah V. Hey
  • Dr. Michael Howell
  • The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker , Bishop of Fort Worth
  • The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA)
  • The Rev. William A. Thompson, Rector, All Saints' Anglican Church, Long Beach, CA
  • The Honorable Samuel B. Thomsen
  • Mr. Frank H. Trane

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Anglican Council: Statement of Faith ( Memento June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Memo by Rev. Geoff Chapman as a PDF file, from the Washington Post . As of September 27, 2006.
  3. ↑ Jim Naughton, "Following the Money" ( June 18, 2006 memento on the Internet Archive ), in Washington Window , the diocesan newspaper of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington , April / May (?) 2006