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A Church for the Churchless?
Bishop Alan's Blog | August 4th 2008 by Alan Wilson
Discussion starter for 10 — an intriguing conversation recorded by Dan Porter walking his dog in the park with a Roman Catholic priest who suggested:Something I hear a lot from young people today is that they hate organized religion.I suggest that read more
Lambeth Conference (Part III - the End?)
ActsFourThirtyFour | August 4th 2008 by Anketell
In his final address to the Lambeth Conference Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury) came down heavily on the North American Episcopal Church for refusing to honour its moratorium on ordaining gay people. It marked a pretty inevitable repositioni read more
The Bible, modernity, and missiology
Khanya | August 4th 2008 by Steve Hayes
Interesting article here by N.T. Wright, prepared for the recent Lambeth (actually Canterbury) conference of Anglican bishops. clipped from www.virtueonline.org Debates about the authority of scripture have tended to get off on the read more
Why I am not a Marxist: Class war and the Anglican schism
Notes from underground | July 30th 2008 by Steve Hayes
You've got to wonder what they've been smoking to dream up stuff like this!Class war and the Anglican schism | Links: Dramatic events within the worldwide Anglican Communion (the international association of national Anglican churches) have revealed read more
Archbishop of Canterbury Affirms Traditional Christian Doctrine o…
Vivificat | July 29th 2008
Folks, this Hilary White of LifesSiteNews.com: CANTERBURY, July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the midst of the maelstrom of the 14th Lambeth Conference Dr. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has affirmed the classical Christian doctr read more
Lambeth Conference 2008 (Part I)
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 23rd 2008 by Anketell
The Lambeth Conference opened on Monday, in Canterbury, (Canterbury Conference surely?) after a powerful sermon by Archbishop Rowan, describing this decennial meeting as a "turning point", which it probably will be. Already 230 conservative bishops h read more
Evangelism in the real world
Bishop Alan's Blog | July 21st 2008 by Alan Wilson
A Tour de force Monday evening from Brian MacLaren. He showed us a Bridge in Honduras — a marvel of Japanese engineering that survived Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Trouble was, the river didn’t, and it became a bridge to nowhere. The contemporary wor read more
Sufficient Grace. Power to change?
Bishop Alan's Blog | July 20th 2008 by Alan Wilson
Joyce Kohl says “White signifies purity, joy and glory; red bravery, fire, blood, and charity.”Combining the purity of white and the the passion of red gives us pink - the color of gentle love and desire... Pink signifies gentleness, and new bi read more
Is Anglicanism dead?
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 20th 2008 by Anketell
There is much reason to be fearful for the Church of England. The current debates over female bishops and gay clergy present a split at the top so fundamental it could result in a division of the Communion, with differences threatening to overwhelm u read more
A dangerous way out of a dangerous impasse?
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 19th 2008 by Anketell
Another quick note from the Times (they really do have the best C of E coverage):"the Archbishop — who believes that God takes care of the results only if His people put in the footwork — is engineering a daring and complex plan. Work is afoot on read more
When will Gafcon stop ruining the church?
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 19th 2008 by Anketell
More infuriating news from the wayward conservative Gafcon bishops bent on coercing the Anglican communion to do it their way and refusing to engage in the Lambeth Conference. The Times have reported on a statement released by them in response to Arc read more
Mess in the Episcopal Church due to its bishops' own errors
Vivificat | July 18th 2008
Folks, Father Thomas J. Euteneuer, President of Human Life International, wrote a charitable, yet toughly worded letter to the bishops of the Anglican Communion, taking them to task and making them squarely responsible for the mess in the Angli read more
Diocese swapping - a lesson in tolerance
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 18th 2008 by Anketell
One idea recently getting a lot of air time is that of parishes ‘defecting’ from their diocese in order to move to ones headed by a male bishop or a conservative. At first this was a way for parishes stay under the leadership of a male priest wit read more
Schism and Pluralism in Lambeth (Part II)
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 17th 2008 by Anketell
The most pressing reason for the Anglican Communion to remain united in the face of controversy regarding women bishops and gay clergy is that a schism is wholly unnecessary. It could stem only from an incomplete understanding of the dynamics and hi read more
Schism and Unity - the value of Pluralism
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 16th 2008 by Anketell
Probably the hardest thing to understand 'from the outside' of the divisive debates that form the backdrop of the Lambeth Conference, starting today, is the horror of schism in the Church. Any other organisation would surely just split.There are many read more
The Telegraph's 50 most influential Anglicans
ActsFourThirtyFour | July 15th 2008 by Anketell
The Telegraph has released its list of the 50 most influential people in the Anglican Church (read it here), no great surprises - high billing for Rowan Williams, Katherine Jefferts Schori and Peter Akinola. Nevertheless it was interesting to see two read more
Blogging Lambeth
Bishop Alan's Blog | July 15th 2008 by Alan Wilson
Whilst packing toothbrush and kit, I’ve been trying to work out how to blog from Lambeth. On the face of it, it’s simple; but I wonder how, remembering what this thing is and how it works. Large swathes of the conference are open, like fringe and read more
Anglican upheavals
Khanya | July 11th 2008 by Steve Hayes
While the internal squabbles within the Anglican Communion do not directly concern Orthodox Christians, some have expressed concern about them. Interfax-Religion: The Moscow Patriarchate has expressed concern about the Anglican Synod’s decision read more
Left is Right and Right is Left
Khanya | July 9th 2008 by Steve Hayes
I have long believed that theological liberalism is linked to political conservatism and vice versa. A few months ago I mentioned this in a blog post Notes from underground: Anglican introversion, and the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) he read more
Conservative or Liberal?
Nick's Sanctuary - Christian Safe Haven | July 6th 2008 by Nick
You’ll notice that as of yet on this blog I have not made a big thing of the current divisive issues being fought over within the Church of England and the wider Anglican Church (principally the role of women and gay priests).This is by no means an read more
Christendom and Emergence: st hugo's
Politeia Articles | July 6th 2008 by Cassandra
... BBC Condemns Vatican, Backs Liberation Theology, Helping Poor/Chavez ... BBC: "Pro-Chavez Catholics under fire" Religious leaders in Venezuela have criticised a recently formed church that openly backs President Hugo Chavez's socialist politics read more
Time to Think Different?
Bishop Alan's Blog | July 1st 2008 by Alan Wilson
Confronted by the big problems of the real world, let alone the arcana of church politics, it is easy to reach sticking points where people simply dig in. In 1914 the fusion of spades, agricultural barbed wire and machine guns gave the world Trench w read more
The Jerusalem Council (of the Church of England)
Mere Humanity | June 29th 2008
this is the declaration that came out the past week’s meeting in Jerusalem of the Anglican Church. it is very interesting and very important to the future of the denomination and the future of millions of Christians who are under the Church of read more
GAFCON future: not quite Jerusalem?
Bishop Alan's Blog | June 28th 2008 by Alan Wilson
Looking at the GAFCON statement from Jerusalem, it all looks fair enough to me. Very few faithful Anglicans will disagree with anything positive the statement affirms. It's pretty much what we all thought we were doing anyway. What disturbs is its cl read more
Anglicanism Lost
Law and Theology | May 30th 2008 by Neiswonger
Anglicanism Lost(A response to comments at This Blog)Father R,I love Anglicanism, but I could never be an Anglican, because they seem to be extinct. Your analysis of Anglicanism seems to say that you are an Anglican specifically because you are not o read more
Anglicanism Lost
Christian Theology | May 29th 2008 by Neiswonger
(A response to comments at This Blog) Father R, I love Anglicanism, but I could never be an Anglican, because they seem to be extinct. Your analysis of Anglicanism seems to say that you are an Anglican specifically because you are not one, and that i read more
Quote for the Day
The Website of Unknowing | May 16th 2008 by Carl McColman
It is well known that the category of the personal is vital to Christian thinking, both in relation to God who is understood to be three-personed and to humanity which is seen as made in God’s image and likeness. Often in common usage what is p read more
Not On My Watch.
Nick's Sanctuary | May 11th 2008 by Nick Payne
I don't intend this to be huge post... I've got other things I feel I need to write about, but as it's Pentecost... I felt that there was a need to respond to an article I had read in The Times this week about the apparent decline in Christianity in read more
The problems of taking money from the state
Cradle Catholic Charterhouse | March 14th 2008 by QuickbeamofFangorn
In the United states the church doesn’t nor is it permitted to take funds from the state in support of primary education. This has served the church well in the 20th century and hurt it at least initially in the 18 & 19th centuries. In Engl read more
Creeds, Christology & unintended heresy
Cradle Catholic Charterhouse | February 22nd 2008 by QuickbeamofFangorn
Many Protestant communions have issues with giving adherence to the traditional Creeds. Creeds bind individual believers to a formal expression of Scriptural truths. Creeds were created to eliminate gray areas which lead to false understandings of et read more
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