Stand Firm Lexicon

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by Greg Griffith

By request, here's the list (as of 8-14-07) of the words and definitions in our automated underline-glossary-thingy. Feel free to suggest additions:

AAC - American Anglican Council

ABC - Archbishop of Canterbury.

ACC - Anglican Consultative Council.

ACN - Anglican Communion Network.

ACI - Anglican Communion Institute.

T1:9 - TitusOneNine, Canon Kendall Harmon's blog

T19 - TitusOneNine, Canon Kendall Harmon's blog

SF - Stand Firm

SFIF - Stand Firm in Faith

BCP - Book of Common Prayer

ECUSA - Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Now 'TEC.'

TEC - The Episcopal Church. Formerly 'ECUSA.'

815 - Episcopal Church headquarters at 815 Second Ave, New York, NY

FTG - Frank Tracy Griswold, former presiding bishop before Schori

GC - General Convention

GC03 - General Convention 2003

GC06 - General Convention 2006

VGR - Vicky Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire.

KJS - Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church

SSB - Same-sex blessings

C051 - The resolution in 2003 authorizing same-sex blesings

B033 - Attempt by Episcopal Church to comply with Windsor Report

WO - Women's Ordination

MSM - Mainstream media - Big 3 Networks, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.

Anglican fudge - A distinctly Anglican tendency to avoid making decisions

revisionist - Someone who supports revising certain church teachings.

reappraiser - Someone who supports revising church teachings.

reasserter - Someone who supports retaining traditional church teachings.

Dar es Salaam - Location in Tanzania of the February 2007 primates' meeting

PB - Presiding Bishop. Episcopal Church's equivalent of archbishop.

NIV - New International Version (Bible translation)

KJV - King James Version (Bible translation)

NKJV - New King James Version (Bible translation)

NRSV - New Revised Standard Version (Bible translation)

ESV - English Standard Version (Bible translation)

NLT - New Living Translation (Bible translation)

TNIV - Today's New International Version (Bible translation)

CANA - Convocation of Anglicans in North America

fisking - A point-by-point refutation of someone's comments

fisk - To do a point-by-point refutation of someone's comment

LCMS - Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

Kigali - Site of primates' conference in 2006; statement issued supporting American orthodox.

Camp Allen - 2006 and 2007 meetings of American bishops wishing to uphold the Windsor Report

fwiw - for what it's worth

NT - New Testament; or NT Wright, Bishop of Durham (England)

OT - Old Testament; or 'off-topic'

Lambeth Conference - A meeting of all Anglican bishops held every decade, at the Archbishop of Canterbury's invitation.

primates meeting - The annual meeting of Anglican primates.

ACO - Anglican Communion Office

AMiA - Anglican Mission in America.

REC - Reformed Episcopal Church.

Akinola - Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Nigeria

Gomez - Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the West Indies

Venables - Gregory Venables, Archbishop of the Southern Cone.

Orombi - Henry Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda.

Sentamu - John Sentamu, Archbishop of York.

Global South - The non-Western provinces of the Anglican Communion.

GS - Global South, the non-Western provinces of the Anglican Communion.

CAPA - Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa

Rowan - Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Dromantine - A meeting held in Ireland in 2005 to clarify terms of the Windsor Report.

Windsor - Windsor Report. Communion-wide attempt to address the Episcopal crisis.

primates - Heads of the 38 Anglican Communion provinces.

APO - Alternative Primatial Oversight.

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