Faithful Locally, Prayerful Globally by Benjamin B Twinamaani (originally published on The Living Church, republished with permission) Introduction I write in order to comment on the new challenges facing Anglican mission in the Global South, when a new and realized global disorder burns its way through the Anglican Communion. I attempt to provide a wider framework … Continue Reading
The propaganda on the Anglican covenant produced by Inclusive Church (IC) and Modern Church (previously MCU) and published in the church press reveals a most frightening development in contemporary Anglicanism. Two of the Church of England groups most associated with an appeal to reason have demonstrated themselves to be incapable of reasoned argument. They have also revealed themselves so … Continue Reading
As the Church House machinery grinds into action, mailing out a truckload of papers for November’s inauguration of the new General Synod, it is interesting to reflect on how this new Synod will respond to some of the issues it inherits from the old. At the centre of these is, of course, the draft legislation … Continue Reading
Graham Kings considers Newman, the papal visit, and its follow up
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. by Canon Francis Omondi Rev 2:8 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again: Rev 2:9 I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and … Continue Reading
Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:1-13 a sermon at the service of celebration and farewell in Durham Cathedral, Tuesday 13 July 2010 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N T Wright copublished, with permission, with the Diocese of Durham site In 1986, our last summer in Canada, Maggie and I went to Vancouver to do some lectures. … Continue Reading
Evangelical opponents of women bishops: What is sought and required? by Andrew Goddard 1.Introduction: Trying to square the circle The decision of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to offer their own proposal for solving the problem of provision for those opposed to women bishops has, inevitably, caused quite a storm. It seeks to find … Continue Reading
It is ten years since Anglicanism’s current travails were formally inaugurated with the formation of an alternative “Communion” church in North America, the Anglican Mission in America.Not the cause, it was nonetheless the first major sign that “communion” was no longer a given in Anglicanism, but something to be variously asserted, antagonistically claimed, and built … Continue Reading
ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION: NEW ZEALAND AND THE COVENANT The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq. Reports this week from the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia indicate that it passed a resolution approving in principle the … Continue Reading
Singapore: Intellectual Centre of a Movement Fulcrum Newsletter January 2007 by Graham Kings republished, with permission, from The Church Times, 29 December 2006 To mark the Fourth Anglican Global South to South Encounter, Singapore, 19th-23rd April 2010, we are re-publishing the above article, first published on this website, January 2007. Since its first publication, the … Continue Reading