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The Anglican Communion Network (officially the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes) is a theologically conservative network of dioceses and parishes that are currently a part of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA). It was officially formed in January 2004 at a conference in Plano, Texas attended by several hundred priests and lay leaders, including 12 Episcopal bishops. Its main intent is to provide a system to supply theologically conservative leadership and church oversight to Anglican ...

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The Confessing Movement is a neo-Evangelical movement within several mainline Protestant denominations to return those churches to what the members of the movement see as theological orthodoxy. It relates and cross pollinates with other conservative Christian movements such as Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Holiness groups, Anabaptists, and Fundamentalists. Its members have a stated committment to remain in their home denominations, unless forced out, to stay and work for reform from within, in contrast to what they see as other m ...

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• Confessing Movement - The Confessing Movement in the churches
• Confessing Movement - Institute on Religion and Democracy
• Confessing Movement - United States of America
• Confessing Movement - Presbyterian
• Confessing Movement - Methodist
• Confessing Movement - Episcopalian/Anglican
• Confessing Movement - Church of the Brethren
• Confessing Movement - Lutheran
• Confessing Movement - United Church of Christ
• Confessing Movement - Australia
• Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia

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Confessing Movement - Presbyterian. One of the fastest growing Confessing Movements is within the Presbyterian Church (USA). In February, 2002 more than 800 laity, pastors, deacons, and elders gathered in Atlanta, Georgia for the first National Celebration of Confessing Churches. Participating churches affirm that Christ is the only way of salvation, that the Bible is infallible in its teachings, and that sexual relations are exclusively for marriage. More than 1,200 of the denomination's 11,000 congregations have adopted such declaratio ...

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Confessing Movement, Confessing Movement - The Confessing Movement in the churches, Confessing Movement - Institute on Religion and Democracy, Confessing Movement - United States of America, Confessing Movement - Presbyterian, Confessing Movement - Methodist, Confessing Movement - Episcopalian/Anglican, Confessing Movement - Church of the Brethren, Confessing Movement - Lutheran, Confessing Movement - United Church of Christ, Confessing Movement - Australia, Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia

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Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia. After a 2003 decision not to make an outright ban on the ordination of practicing homosexuals, conservative members of the church formed The Reforming Alliance in order to discuss the issues and work out a strategy. This process was helped by another group called Evangelical Members within the Uniting Church in Australia (EMU) which had been formed in the early 1990s as a conservative response to what is ...

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Confessing Movement, Confessing Movement - The Confessing Movement in the churches, Confessing Movement - Institute on Religion and Democracy, Confessing Movement - United States of America, Confessing Movement - Presbyterian, Confessing Movement - Methodist, Confessing Movement - Episcopalian/Anglican, Confessing Movement - Church of the Brethren, Confessing Movement - Lutheran, Confessing Movement - United Church of Christ, Confessing Movement - Australia, Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia

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A large group of laity and a somewhat smaller group of clergy within the mainline churches have protested that their denominations have been hijacked by those who, in their view, have 'forsaken Christianity' and embraced moral relativism to accommodate secular society. They reject church leaders such as United Methodist Bishop Joseph Sprague of Chicago and Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong as apostate. Although many issues are longstanding, the trigger that led to the formation of the Confessing Movement was the acceptance or the pos ...

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Confessing Movement, Confessing Movement - The Confessing Movement in the churches, Confessing Movement - Institute on Religion and Democracy, Confessing Movement - United States of America, Confessing Movement - Presbyterian, Confessing Movement - Methodist, Confessing Movement - Episcopalian/Anglican, Confessing Movement - Church of the Brethren, Confessing Movement - Lutheran, Confessing Movement - United Church of Christ, Confessing Movement - Australia, Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia

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