American Anglican Council

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American Anglican Council
Formation 1996
Type Episcopalian Orthodox Conservatism group
Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia
Location 40 U.S. states
Membership 80,000 congregants in affiliated parishes
Website
http://www.americananglican.org
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Background

Christianity
English Reformation
Anglicanism
Book of Common Prayer
Ordination of women
Homosexuality and Anglicanism
Windsor Report
People

Peter Akinola
Robert Duncan
Drexel Gomez
Benjamin Nzimbi
Gene Robinson
Rowan Williams
Anglican Realignment Associations

American Anglican Council
Anglican Coalition in Canada
Anglican Communion Network
Anglican Mission in the Americas
Convocation of Anglicans in North America
Related Churches

Anglican Province of America
Episcopal Missionary Church
Reformed Episcopal Church

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The American Anglican Council is an organization which exists to allow theologically conservative members of the Episcopal Church in the United States to network with one another. It was incorporated in 1996 and is one of several key organizations in the movement for Anglican realignment.

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[edit] Mission

The American Anglican Council is a network of individuals (laity, deacons, priests and bishops), parishes and specialized ministries who affirm Biblical authority and Christian orthodoxy within the Anglican Communion. They are committed to proclaiming the Good News to all, and to reforming and renewing the Church of Jesus Christ within greater Anglicanism. They are united in fulfilling the apostolic mission and ministry, working to build a faithful Anglican witness in the Americas.

[edit] Positions

The AAC believes that "Christian mission is rooted in unchanging biblical revelation." Presently it sees "specific challenges to authentic faith and holiness [...] which require thoughtful and vigorous response." These challenges include moral relativism, a lack of "Christian ethical principles" in "the public life of the nation", "abortion, unwanted pregnancy, and end-of-life illness", and questions of sexual ethics.

[edit] Controversies

The American Anglican Council is not an ecclesial body, but rather is an orthodox Anglican advocacy organization with ministry involving education, communication, strategic planning, diplomacy, counsel and resource networking with other Anglican bodies domestically and internationally. It works directly with orthodox Episcopal Churches and Episcopalians who are committed to remaining in the Episcopal Church for the foreseeable future, and those orthodox Anglican Churches and individuals who are in the process of leaving the Episcopal Church, and those orthodox Anglican Churches and individuals who are outside or never affiliated with the Episcopal Church. This ministry to all three areas will continue into the anticipated future. As a freestanding orthodox Anglican advocacy organization the AAC is neither in nor out of TEC, but entirely separate from it. Some have charged that the AAC sees itself as forming the nucleus of a replacement Anglican jurisdiction. Any future restructuring of the provincial status of North American Anglican churches will not involve the AAC being a nucleus of the replacement, since the AAC is not an ecclesial body itself.

[edit] Leadership

The AAC is governed by a Board of Trustees. The current members are:

  • The Rt. Rev. 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. Foley Beach
  • The Rt. Rev. David Bena
  • The Rev. Travis Boline
  • Mr. Mark F. C. Berner, Esq.
  • Mr. David R. Bickel
  • The Rev. Shawn Denney
  • The Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh
  • The Rev. William Gandenberger
  • Dr. Michael Howell
  • The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, Bishop of Fort Worth
  • The Rev. Matthew Kennedy
  • The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, Missionary Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America
  • Mrs. Betty Lee Payne
  • The Very Rev. Ryan Reed
  • Mrs. Carol Rogers Smith
  • The Rev. William A. Thompson, Rector, All Saints' Anglican Church, Long Beach, CA
  • The Honourable Samuel B. Thomsen
  • Mr. Frank H. Trane
  • The Rt. Rev. William Wantland

[edit] Common Cause Partners

Common Cause Partners, founded in June of 2004, is an alliance of several churches and ministries within the Anglican Communion, including the AAC. The initial meeting was followed by a gathering in February of 2005 where the Statement of Common Cause Partners in North America was signed by the following organizations:

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