Traditionalists prepared for period of suffering
Date: Nov 18

AMERICAN and Canadian traditionalists must be prepared for a season of suffering, the Rt Rev Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh, told a three-day rally of traditionalists called “Hope and a Future”, but the final result of the battle for the soul of Anglicanism was not in doubt, he said. The 2003 Dallas rally of traditionalists “was our Palm Sunday. The Pittsburgh Conference, ‘Hope and a Future,’ has been our Maundy Thursday. Next is Good Friday. Be watchful. Be ready,” he said. “But after that comes the resurrection and the release of mission in the power of the Holy Spirit.” Approximately 2,350 Anglicans from across the Communion gathered at the Pittsburgh Convention Center from Nov 10-12 for the traditionalists’ rally, held to bolster conservative morale in the run-up to the Episcopal Church’s 2006 General Convention to be held next summer. An eclectic series of speakers: Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda, Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti of Recife, Canon Michael Green of Wycliffe Hall, Baroness Caroline Cox, Rick Warren — pastor of California’s Saddleback Community Church and author of The Purpose-Driven Life, as well as bishops and leaders from the Episcopal Church’s traditionalist factions, addressed the crowd over three days.

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