Your Guide to the Categories for Ordination in the Church of England by David Runcorn As we know, Ministry Division revises its ministry selection categories every few years. But experience shows there is still a lot of confusion about them. This is partly because the CofE now only officially speaks in ACRONYMS – possibly based … Continue Reading
S. T. Coleridge: Religious Thinker by Mary Anne Perkins republished with permission from The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), pp. 187-199 the first part of a Fulcrum series of Eminent Anglicans of English Literature The categories according to which Coleridge’s various admirers and critics have represented him often appear irreconcilable: he has been … Continue Reading
Eminent Anglicans of English Literature A Fulcrum series in partnership with Cambridge University Press Over the next four months we shall be republishing, with permission, essays on the religious views of four eminent Anglican writers: John Donne (1572-1631), poet, preacher and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), poet, lexicographer, critic, and biographer. S. … Continue Reading
The Islington Passion: Wooden and Silk Body of Christ (co-published with Faith Online, The Times Online, 9 April 2009) by Graham Kings How did the temple guards feel, who had the job of guarding the tomb where Jesus was laid on Good Friday? His execution had taken place in a religiously and politically charged atmosphere. … Continue Reading
Song of the Messiah Jesus, the Seed of Abraham, blesses the nations; Jesus, the Prophet like Moses, frees the oppressed; Jesus, the Lord of King David, leads his people; Jesus, the Servant of the Lord, suffers and saves; Jesus, the Son of Man, destroyed and raised. Anglican Church of Kenya, Our Modern Services (Nairobi: Uzima … Continue Reading
First Written Gospel Jesus the Sacred, tried before Pilate; Pilate, the scared – trial before Caesar? Jesus, entitled to justice from Rome, entitled by Pilate, ‘The King of the Jews.’ First written Gospel, translated for all, title deeds of the Kingdom of God; proclaimed to the city, unchanging Word, ‘What is written, is written’, bequeathed … Continue Reading
I’d not collude with anyone’s delusions. I always called a spade its proper name and could grasp its purpose well enough when something needed burying. Wasn’t I the first who pointed out how we could die with him?And in broad daylight that was, well ahead of Simon acting all dramatic at the dinner table. He’s … Continue Reading
The Reading Church: Scriptural Authority in Practice Fulcrum Lecture: Text available now here by The Revd Professor Oliver O’Donovan FBA Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh at the launch of his book A Conversation Waiting to Begin: The Churches and the Gay Controversy (SCM Press, 2009) Monday 27 April 2009, 6.00pm … Continue Reading
Archbishop shaves off his beard: prophetic act for G20 summit My beard came off, my heart was free, I prayed for the economy. ‘His Suit’ (after Gruffydd ap Meredudd), from ‘The Rood of Jester’ Headwaters: Poems by Rowan Williams (Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 2008), p. 36 [for more, click here] Fulcrum
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