SAN JOAQUIN: Episcopal Church in Cyber War. Diocesan Website Disappears
Presiding Bishop Says She Plans to Reconstitute Diocese, Revise Canons
By David W. Virtue
3/31/2008
The Episcopal Church has engaged in a cyber war resulting in the disappearance of the website of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. Seekers are redirected to the diocesan website of the reconstituted TEC Diocese of San Joaquin.
The website just disappeared, an irate searcher told VirtueOnline. Visitors to www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org - the website of the (Southern Cone) Diocese of San Joaquin - are magically redirected to the new website for the reconstituted TEC diocese, at www.diosanjoaquin.org. The Society of Archbishop Justus is the custodian of www.anglican.org, of which www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org is a sub-domain. While the Anglican Domain web site is not official in any way, it is produced and sponsored by the Society of Archbishop Justus as a global resource, the website states.
Bill Gandenberger, Canon to the Ordinary to Bishop John-David Schofield, in an interview with VOL, attributed the problem to an improperly "published" website, making it vulnerable to attack. "We had an address under an anglican.org isp, which came under the control of the Episcopal Church. Our site is safe at present, but people may not be able to find us." It can be found here: http://www.sjoaquin.net/
The hijacked cyber link now run by the Episcopal Church claims 14 parishes in their reconstructed diocese, now under the authority of the Rt. Rev. Jerry Lamb.
the rest at Virtueonline
posted by Pat Dague @ 5:13 PM
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Anglican.org is a domain for churches recognized by the Archbishop of Canterbury - it was rightfully restored to the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin when the Southern Cone San Joaquin tried to use it. There is no cyberwar except in the minds of those who do not understand the internet.
Ann’s views here are typical of those who feel that TEC is a top-down church ruled the way the Roman church is governed. We folks at the top own it all, and how dare you divert our property, be it bricks and mortar church buildings built by congregations, or websites built by dioceses. The folks in the pews or in the diocesan offices bought and paid for it all, and now we at the top will take it. But even the TEC winners in this battle (if they are the ultimate winners in the property battles) are being demoralized by the nastiness of those at the top. Grasp as she will, Mrs. Schori is destroying the very church she was elected to lead. This is not leadership; it is spiritual and institutional suicide.
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