Initial comments on ‘A Covenant for the Church of England’, issued by Paul Perkin and Chris Sugden and others by the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright I am surprised that this document (‘A Covenant for the Church of England’, hereafter CCE) has been issued, and sorry that its clear grasp of some issues is … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Initial Response to the ‘Covenant for the Church of England’ which some evangelicals presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury on 12 December 2006 Whilst the provenance, process and representative authority of the ‘covenant for the Church of England’, which was presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury on 12 December 2006, are still very much … Continue Reading
The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number “Creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God” (Romans 8:19) When the governing committee of the Church of Sweden proposed to its General Synod last year the sacramental … Continue Reading
republished, with permission, from The Church of England Newspaper, 24 November 2006 Dear Fulcrum Friends, Last week two large, historic evangelical churches in the Washington area began moves to leave The Episcopal Church. They wish to put themselves under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church of Nigeria (of which the Convocation for Anglicans in North … Continue Reading
by Ephraim Radner Rector, Church of the Ascension, Pueblo, Colorado and Andrew Goddard Tutor in Ethics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number The Situation in Nigeria & Western Reactions Ever since at least the 1998 Lambeth … Continue Reading
Reproduced with permission from the Church of England Newspaper 10 November 2006 In South London recently, a prominent Evangelical minister asked that the microphones and recording equipment in his church be switched off. To a hushed congregation he announced that, with a split in the Anglican Communion imminent, his church would need to decide with … Continue Reading
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by Colin Craston Reproduced with permission from the Church of England Newspaper 27 October 2006 Some people are born and brought up in the evangelical tradition. Others are drawn in by coming to faith through contact with it. The former route was mine. Till I left school and joined the Navy in 1941 a very … Continue Reading
“Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it” (Hebrews 2:1) A discipline of biblical “hermeneutics”, ie of interpretation, has no point unless we are resolved to be obedient. That will serve as a summary of the argument of the fourth of these Sermons … Continue Reading
‘City on a Hill’, sermon at the Inauguration of Dr David Wilkinson as Principal of St John’s College, Durham Durham Cathedral, 17 October 2006 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright It would have been a bold commentator ten years ago, let alone twenty or thirty, who would have predicted that in the … Continue Reading