Guest Author Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 14 November 2010 14 November 2010 at 10:00 am by The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence in partnership with Westminster Abbey Over the four weeks of November, in the sermons at Morning Prayer, I am reflecting on some of the great themes in the writing of John … Continue Reading
Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 21 November 2010 21 November 2010 at 10:00 am by The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence A Fulcrum series in partnership with Westminster Abbey This month, in the sermons at Morning Prayer, I am looking at some of the central ideas of John Henry Newman. The high … Continue Reading
Posted originally May 20, 2011 on The Living Church (used with permission) By George R. Sumner The 1963 Anglican Congress in Toronto came at the high-water mark of Anglican prestige in the Global North, and yet it held up a much wider and deeper vision of the nature of communion in a prescient way. The … Continue Reading
by Rev. Dr. Philip Turner Originally Posted May 24th, 2011 on The Anglican Communion Institute After several iterations and a good bit of political chicanery the proposed Anglican Covenant has been sent to the provinces for their consideration, adoption or rejection. Prediction is always a chancy matter. Nevertheless, despite the welcome accession of the Province … Continue Reading
By Ian Ernest first published on The Living Church Six of the seven dioceses of the Province of the Indian Ocean, because of their geographical location, permanently face the risk of devastation or destruction by cyclones. Like our islands, and because of its comprehensive nature, the Anglican Communion is always at risk of devastation or … Continue Reading
By Geoffrey Rowell first published on The Living Church As long ago as 1963 the Anglican Congress in Toronto produced a significant document, Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence in the Body of Christ. All ecclesiology is about our belonging together, and our belonging together in Christ. The great images of the Church in the New Testament … Continue Reading
by Paul Roberts The biggest “Christian” internet event of the year so far was the prediction that the world was going to end on 21st May 2011 at 6pm in each time-zone. The reaction by Christians has been either to ignore it, to join in lampooning it as extremely stupid, to protest loudly that they … Continue Reading
‘No Pleasure in the Death of the Wicked’ Deonna Neal In “An Act of Judgment?” Oliver O’Donovan shows a nuanced grasp of the many distinctions that must be made when thinking through the justification of the use of force in the international sphere, though his particular position is difficult to ascertain. On the one hand, … Continue Reading
An Act of Judgment? By Oliver O’Donovan The week before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden at Abbottabad in Pakistan, NATO air forces came close to hitting Colonel Gadaffi in a raid on Tripoli and may have killed one of his sons. The suggestion of an assassination attempt was met with a disapproving denial. … Continue Reading
Emerging Church: a Victorian Prequel by Dr Dominic Erdozain Paper delivered at the ‘Ancient Wisdom, Anglican Futures’ Conference at Trinity School for Ministry, Pittsburgh, June 2009. Used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers www.wipfandstock.com See the forthcoming volume The Great Tradition–A Great Labor: Studies in Ancient-Future Faith, Philip Harrold and D. H. Williams, eds. (Cascade: Eugene, … Continue Reading