Materials from prior to Convention in 2010

A Statement by the Board

Defer Consideration of the Covenant

The Directors of Albany Via Media question the need for an Anglican Communion Covenant, and we have serious reservations about Section 4 of the version thereof that is now under consideration. Clearly wide discussion of that document is needed. In the Diocese of Albany, it has barely begun.

We urge the 2010 Diocesan Convention to discuss the proposed Covenant but make no decision on it until General Convention does so. A preemptive decision by Albany would serve no useful purpose. It would, rather, increase tensions within this diocese and between it and the national Church.

The Albany Via Media Board

Comment

About the proposed Anglican Covenant

A motion for endorsement of the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant is on the agenda for June's Diocesan convention. Would such endorsement be too soon? Should there even be such a covenant? If so, is the proposed covenant good enough?

Statement by the Vestry of Christ Church, Hudson: Urging indefinite postponement of action on the proposed Anglican Covenant by the Diocesan Convention in June
Communion, Covenant and Conversation: An address by the Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade delivered to Albany Via Media on April 10, 2010 at St. Paul's Church in Albany.
Orthodoxy, Heresy, and the Proposed Anglican Covenant: Comment by Rev. John Kettlewell, Rector of St. Stephen's, Schuylerville, at Openly Episcopal in Albany
A (Limited) Show of Hands on the Covenant: Comment by Albany Via Media board member Robert Dodd
An Anglican Covenant ?: An article from AVM's Fall, 2009 Newsletter by Fr. Walt Zelley, a retired priest from the Diocese of New Jersey, who is now a member of the Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Copake Falls.
General Convention and our Anglican Way of being ‘Church’: An article from AVM's Fall, 2009 Newsletter by Fr. John Perry, the Rector of Christ Church, Hudson.

Letters to the Editor

Robert Dodd, June 9: endorsement of the proposed Covenant
John White, June 8: endorsement of the proposed Covenant
Allison de Kanel, June 2: the indelibility of orders and church authority
Rev. Paul J. Hartt, May 31: the indelibility of orders and church authority
Robert Dodd, May 29: deferral of Covenant endorsement
Rev. Michael Waverly-Shank, May 26: deferral of Covenant endorsement
Allison de Kanel, May 24: the indelibility of orders
Rev. Paul J. Hartt, May 14: the indelibility of orders
Allison de Kanel, May 7: the indelibility of orders