Part of the poetry offering from Fulcrum this Christmas
The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings is Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.
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Jewel's Gem: Reflections on the 450th Anniversary of Bishop John Jewel's Apologia
Reflections on the 450th anniversary of Bishop John Jewel's 'Apologia'
The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings is Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.
Gethsemane and the Trinity
Conflict is stranger than fiction; Love is stronger than faction; God is no stranger to conflict. God is stranger than we know, stronger than we feel, weaker than we think, wider than we imagine. The cup of Gethsemane is the cup of the Trinity. Graham KingsThe Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings is Honorary Assistant Bishop … Continue Reading
Communion Connections: Web of Mutuality or Fragmentation?
Communion Connections: Web of Mutuality or Fragmentation? by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne 'Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable web of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects us all indirectly'. Martin Luther King wrote these words in a letter from jail in Birmingham, … Continue Reading
Transcript of BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme, 11 March 2012: Discussion on the Anglican Communion
Transcript of BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme, 11 March 2012 Discussion on the Anglican Communion, audio clip here Interviewer: Ed Stourton Interviewees: Dairmaid MacCulloch, Graham Kings Stourton The Anglican Covenant was Rowan Williams’s big idea for securing unity of the worldwide Anglican Communion after the row over the American church’s decision to appoint a gay … Continue Reading
Henry Martyn: Missionary Scholar for our Age? by Graham Kings
Henry Martyn: Missionary Scholar for our Age? by Dr Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne Cambridge Theological Federation and Henry Martyn Centre Lecture Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Wednesday 29 February 2012 Introduction: Portraits Thank you very much for the invitation to give this lecture today. It is a joy to be back in Cambridge. … Continue Reading
Lent is a Time to Keep a Journal of Your Spiritual Travels
Lent is a Time to Keep a Journal of Your Spiritual Travels republished, with permission, from The Times, Credo Column, 25 February 2012 by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne At the beginning of Lent, why not explore putting yourself onto paper before God? Beginning a spiritual journal is breathtakingly brave, but worth the plunge. You … Continue Reading
Bunch of Grapes or Bag of Marbles? Address at Salisbury Diocesan Synod proposing the Anglican Communion Covenant
Next Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday. I love the story of a mother preparing pancakes for her two young sons, John and Mark. They were arguing about who should have the first pancake. She said, ‘What would Jesus do? I think he would say, ‘you have the first pancake’. Quick as a flash in the pan, … Continue Reading
In the Beginning was the Word
In the Beginning was the Word In the beginning was the Word. God spoke his Word through Abraham and Moses, Deborah and Hannah, Samuel and David, Isaiah, Zechariah. It is written. It is written. And the Word became flesh. God spoke his Word through Mary and Elizabeth, Simeon and Anna, Peter and Paul, Matthew and … Continue Reading
John Stott (1921-2011): More than Anglican but not Less
John Stott (1921-2011) More than Anglican but not Less by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne copublished with The Times online, The Living Church, and The Church of England Newspaper John R W Stott was more than Anglican but not less. Earthed in his beloved Church of England, his influence has percolated throughout the world-wide evangelical … Continue Reading