Graham Kings The Holy Spirit and the Magi by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne based on a sermon preached at All Saints Margaret Street, London, 6 January 2009, when he was vicar of St Mary Islington The season of Epiphany is about journeys. I love the story of Nevill Mott, Master of Caius College, Cambridge and former … Continue Reading
The Final Text of the Anglican Communion Covenant: Four Key Questions copublished, with permission, with The Living Church, and Covenant, 22 December 2009 by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne Interdependence and mutual accountability have always been the key features of the earlier drafts of the Anglican Communion Covenant (Nassau, St Andrew’s, and Ridley). It is … Continue Reading
Sudan at the Crossroads Fulcrum Newsletter, December 2009 co-published, with permission, with Comment is free belief, The Guardian online 10 December 2009 by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne History leapt to life for me a couple of weeks ago, while I was sitting under a tree in Rumbek, Southern Sudan. I was reading about the … Continue Reading
The Pope’s Anglican Division The Apostolic Constitution setting out the terms on which Anglicans may convert has been published Fulcrum Newsletter, November 2009 Co-published with permission, with Comment is free belief, Guardian online, 9 November 2009 by Graham Kings Bishop of Sherborne and theological secretary of Fulcrum In planning the momentous service in Canterbury Cathedral … Continue Reading
People must come first: there are many ways of being Conservative Fulcrum Newsletter, September 2009 By Dr Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne Co-published, with permission, with Comment is free belief, Guardian online, 11 September 2009 By plotting a graph of the expansion of the monasteries throughout the Middle Ages we might easily have concluded that … Continue Reading
Federation Isn’t Enough: Only Communion Properly Reflects the Spirit of the Church Fulcrum Newsletter, August 2009 by Graham Kings Bishop of Sherborne and theological secretary of Fulcrum copublished, with permission, with Comment is free belief, The Guardian online, 5 August 2009 Desmond Tutu has often talked of the crucial support of the Anglican Communion when … Continue Reading
The Queen, the Church and the Fellowship by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne co-published with Comment is Free Belief, The Guardian ‘We will keep formal administrative links with the formal Church of England, but our real identity is with Global Anglicanism as defined by the Jerusalem statement and declaration.’ This was stated by Christopher Sugden, … Continue Reading
Glacial Gravity or Opportunist Autonomy? Fulcrum Newsletter June 2009 by Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne prepublished, with permission, from the Church of England Newspaper, 3 July 2009 discuss this newsletter on the forum thread Glaciers, moving slowly and powerfully, reshape the landscape. They work through gravity. It may be that the Anglican Covenant appears to … Continue Reading
Pentecost Prose Poem by Graham Kings It seems to me that the Holy Spirit may appropriately be called ‘He’ or ‘She’, but not ‘It’, for the Spirit is profoundly personal not a simple force. For a change, let’s try ‘She’. She bubbles like a spring, tumbles like a waterfall, meanders like a river and welcomes … Continue Reading
Between the Primates’ Meeting and the ACC February to May 2009 Fulcrum Newsletter, April 2009 by Graham Kings co-published with the Church of England Newspaper, 1 May 2009 Something imperceptible and intangible seems to have happened at the Primates’ Meeting in Alexandria in February 2009. It is not clear how or what. ‘The wind blows … Continue Reading