Conservative Anglican Rejects Priest's Defense of Episcopal Church

By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Mar. 16 2009

A conservative Anglican has rejected comments from a priest who believes The Episcopal Church has been "pilloried" and described in "misleading" ways.

"In his opinion piece, Professor Jones noted that one speaker described the American Church as 'preaching a new gospel' and declared that this was 'misleading, if not incorrect.' Not so," stated the Rev. J Philip Ashey, Chief Operating Officer of the conservative American Anglican Council.

Ashey was responding to a recent commentary written by the Rev. Dr. James W. Jones, professor of Religious Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a priest in The Episcopal Church (TEC) – the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion. the rest