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
co-published with the Church of England Newspaper 23 December 2011 Life is always more interesting when things don’t go as planned. That alone should make the Anglican Communion Covenant interesting in 2012. General Synod rarely refers matters to dioceses. When it does, it often seems – as with women bishops – a procedural necessity with … Continue Reading
Evangelical and Gay Fulcrum has always supported the church’s traditional stance on homosexual relationships and our position on this has not changed. However, as on other subjects, we want to encourage careful listening to other perspectives in order to make a more thoughtful response to homosexuality. The article below, which has been submitted to us, … Continue Reading
Anglican Communion Covenant: Reasons for Voting Positively Download a Fulcrum leaflet explaining the Anglican Communion Covenant: – for reading and single sided printing (PDF 60k) – for double sided printing (PDF 60k) Articles A Churchgoer’s Guide to the Anglican Communion Covenant Anglican Communion Covenant: Ten Reasons for Voting Positively, by Andrew Goddard Bunch of Grapes … Continue Reading
A Churchgoer's Guide to the Anglican Communion Covenant by Fulcrum The whole Anglican Communion is considering whether to adopt the Anglican Communion Covenant. All Church of England dioceses and many deaneries are discussing it in coming months before it returns to General Synod in 2012. Fulcrum has consistently supported the covenant but is aware that … Continue Reading
Undercurrents in the Anglican Communion by Michael Poon In whatever ways we justify and reinterpret the Communion instruments of the Anglican Communion, it is clear the instruments no longer unite Anglican churches worldwide. Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates’ Meetings have become obstacles rather than means of healing the Communion’s … Continue Reading
(Inklings One, Two , Four and Five) To continue at last, to develop my ideas about the mission of the church in rural England. I write from a different place now, as one employed part time and very short term, as a parish priest. I began thinking about rural mission from the outside, watching the … Continue Reading
originally published by The Living Church Much about the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant has caused controversy, but one fact does seem incontrovertible: It is Section 4, “Our Covenanted Life Together,” that for many is most troublesome. It was the section which changed the most through the various drafts and the section which continues to be … Continue Reading
The Results of Praying for Evangelical Scholarship by Gordon Kuhrt Co-published with the Church of England Newspaper, with permission 19th August 2011 In the 1940s and '50s, some thoughtful Evangelical leaders encouraged prayer for a renewal of Evangelical scholarship, especially in the areas of biblical studies and biblical theology. Liberal theology seemed to reign unchallenged. … Continue Reading
Launch of Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N.T. Wright into practice in the Local Church by Stephen Kuhrt On Tuesday 19th July at Christ Church, New Malden, Stephen Kuhrt gave a talk on his book Tom Wright for Everyone and then answered questions about it. The questions included his response to the … Continue Reading