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@ArlieColes
Jun 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I could not more strongly encourage taking @hlgriffin's words here to heart:

"Laity within Anglicanism... have a unique responsibility, because the clergy take vows of obedience. The priests and pastors are not the next line of defense if the bishops fail. The laity are." 🧵
"But in the ACNA... the laity are not educated on their polity. So it allows bishops to manage the image and narrative of what's going on, and laity largely stay in the dark."
I would go so far as to say that lay knowledge of polity, given the unique lay status and check/balance it provides, is a fundamental way that laity are "responsible for church life and witness in the places where they live."
You must speak up if something is wrong. Your clergy may not be able to, as it may put their livelihoods at risk in a way it doesn't yours. Knowing your polity is a prerequisite to this. "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
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Jun 24
For those wondering whether public accessibility of Anglican councils, synods, and the like is really a narrow-horizoned American expectation, here is the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, available for livestream by all, beginning now. Image
It is reasonable for members of a church to expect that its synods be public and publicly accounted for -- it is your government:
gs2025.anglican.ca/live/
(I note that "beginning now" refers to the current session's stream, not to the whole Synod itself.)
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Feb 5
.@monkofjustice nails something important for both TEC and ACNA in this great article by @kathrynmaepost. Things go wrong when handling of accusation, prosecution, judgment, and sentence on misbehaving clergy depends on one interested individual. 🧵 Image
Right now, the provincial canons of ACNA require the bishop to
- Receive charges
- Decide if they're credible, to send for preliminary investigation
- Decide if the matter should go to trial
- Sentence after trial.
The only place they have no official role is on the court itself. Image
(Note, though, that since the provincial canons do not regulate the composition of diocesan courts at all, there seems to be nothing stopping a diocese from seating the bishop on the Court for the Trial of a Presbyter or a Deacon as well.) Image
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Jan 16
What is the process for reporting priest/deacon misconduct in ACNA? How did the ACNA framers modify the TEC process, and what are the effects? 🧵

A key theme of ACNA’s canonical philosophy is subsidiarity, but its provincial canons still stipulate these elements of the process. Image
First: WHO can bring a charge of misconduct against a priest or deacon? TEC’s canons explicitly expanded in 1994 to enumerate the various groups with standing to bring a charge (including all the way down to a single person when alleging crime, immorality, or conduct unbecoming). Image
Instead of furnishing procedure around who may bring a charge in the first place, ACNA’s Title IV furnishes procedure around evaluating the bringers of the charge once brought. The person in charge of doing this is the bishop.
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Sep 14, 2024
For those who would like to see this case finally tried, see this very complex, very very tough to understand diagram to see where things could go off track after a lengthy discovery period. A schedule for possible motions for summary judgment is not included in today's order.
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(In case my tone isn't detectable: You don't have to be a lawyer to know the basic shape of a civil suit, & obfuscating documentation in a church context to suggest it's too complicated to concern others, while conspicuously leaving off basics, serves a particular interest only.)
@AnneKGray Baked into the design also are notions we find in those secular settings: courts with original vs. appellate jurisdiction, notions of judgment vs. sentence vs. appeal, and the use of rules to govern procedures. All these are canonical. 2/x
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Aug 31, 2024
A bit of history for those interested. The main program was called 40 Days of Discernment ™ and was put together mainly by the Falls Church & Truro Church with contributions from others. The idea was, you'd guide the congregation through 40 days of deciding whether to leave TEC.

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40 Days of Discernment ™ grew into a well-resourced program in the Diocese of Virginia, including powerpoints, flyers, directions for workshop facilitators, etc. and this guidebook. Take a look at the shape of the program (and hey, there's Yates).
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The program, undertaken by many who in good faith and conscience were wondering whether it was best to stay or go, with both options taken seriously, famously concluded with a trilemma. Option 1: stay. Which means all these bad things! Do you want to stay and be bad? Image
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Aug 30, 2024
Moreover, this timeline about Minns' consecration "in or around June 2006" is still incorrect. This is not ancient history and the dates can be easily verified.

News of Minns' *election* as a Church of Nigeria bishop came on June 29, 2006:
web.archive.org/web/2006082907…

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Minns' *consecration* came August 20, 2006:


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Does it matter? Yes, because the time between election and consecration was spent taking heat from Bp. Lee (Episcopal Diocese of Virginia) and others. Here's Lee again, saying it makes no sense for a bishop in the CofN to continue as rector in TEC: Image
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