Easter in 'The Reader'
Photo montage of the Upper Street Islington Ecumenical Good Friday processions in 2003 and 2004, from the front cover of the latest edition of ‘The Reader’, for Readers in the Church of England.
Photo montage of the Upper Street Islington Ecumenical Good Friday processions in 2003 and 2004, from the front cover of the latest edition of ‘The Reader’, for Readers in the Church of England.
Mark Shelton, controversial minister at Union Chapel until recently, has been invited to carry a wooden cross along Upper Street, Islington, in Good Friday irony on 25 March 2005 at 12.00 noon. He will be accompanied by drumming and dance.
March 2005 Brakes and Breaks The Covenant Statement from ECUSA’s House of Bishops meeting in Texas applies the brakes to avoid breaks. For fifteen months, till the General Convention in June 2006, a moratorium has been declared on consecrating any bishops, not just those who live in a sexual relationship outside of marriage. The bishops … Continue Reading
Obituary to David Sheppard on the Diocese of Liverpool website
Letter in The Times, 7 March 2005, on the Church and Homosexuality from David Stancliffe (Bishop of Salisbury) and others
Article by Ruth Gledhill, on the letter from the Bishop of Salisbury and a response from Greg Venables and Philip Giddings.
Rowan Williams’s BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme transcript
Sin, sex and skullduggery. That is what this Report, and this debate, are not about. When the Lambeth Commission began work a year ago, it was not asked to discuss the presenting issues which, in late 2003, had begun to pull the Anglican Communion apart. It was asked, rather, to report on unity and communion … Continue Reading