8/15/2026

ACNA Chaplains scheme comes home to roost.

Baptist News has just published a scathing commentary on the Anglican Church in North America and its juristiction for chaplaincies. See it here:  https://baptistnews.com/article/how-a-fight-over-300-chaplains-and-48000-is-tearing-apart-the-acna/

In 2009 I wrote about the extent to which the chaplaincy program of ACNA (then the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA)) bloated the figures for clergy without it costing the emergingd denomination a dime.  See my entries in 2009,2010 and 2011:  https://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2009/08/cana-and-its-chaplains.html and   https://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2010/07/acna-and-other-anglican-chaplainsnot.html and https://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2011/02/strange-case-of-acna-military-chaplains.html.

The Baptist News article reviews just why the current break between the Anglican Church in North America' and its Special Jurisdiciton for Armed Forces and Chaplaincies and its bishop Derik Jones is such a mess. Bishop Jones is supposedly taking with him the some 300 chaplains under his supervision, each of whom has pledged ten percent 

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