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
The Reading Church Scriptural Authority in Practice a lecture given at St Mary Islington, 27 April 2009, at the launch of his book ‘A Conversation Waiting to Begin: the Churches and the Gay Controversy’ (SCM Press, 2009) an extract was copublished in the Church Times, 1 May 2009 by The Revd Professor Oliver O’Donovan FBA … Continue Reading
New Bishop of Sherborne: Rev’d Canon Graham Kings Fulcrum welcomes the appointment of Rev’d. Canon Graham Kings as the new Bishop of Sherborne. Graham has been theological Secretary of Fulcrum since its inception, and was instrumental in its coming into being. Fulcrum has constantly benefitted from Graham’s passion and enthusiasm, and his willingness not to … Continue Reading
S. T. Coleridge: Religious Thinker by Mary Anne Perkins republished with permission from The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), pp. 187-199 the first part of a Fulcrum series of Eminent Anglicans of English Literature The categories according to which Coleridge’s various admirers and critics have represented him often appear irreconcilable: he has been … Continue Reading
Eminent Anglicans of English Literature A Fulcrum series in partnership with Cambridge University Press Over the next four months we shall be republishing, with permission, essays on the religious views of four eminent Anglican writers: John Donne (1572-1631), poet, preacher and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), poet, lexicographer, critic, and biographer. S. … Continue Reading
The Reading Church: Scriptural Authority in Practice Fulcrum Lecture: Text available now here by The Revd Professor Oliver O’Donovan FBA Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh at the launch of his book A Conversation Waiting to Begin: The Churches and the Gay Controversy (SCM Press, 2009) Monday 27 April 2009, 6.00pm … Continue Reading
A pioneering mission and ministry resource pack for mission-shaped poultry keepers … Background A recent General Synod report on clergy vocational fulfilment and ministry development has this important insight. ‘There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution here because keeping poultry, walking on the moors, line dancing and driving steam trains may be just as valuable as… a diocesan … Continue Reading
Fulcrum and the Barnabas Fund Letter to the Church of England Newspaper, 20 March 2009 from Elaine Storkey, Graham Kings and Simon Cawdell on behalf of the Fulcrum Leadership Team Sir, We wish to correct a misleading impression in the letter from Mark Green, Deputy Director of the Barnabas Fund, (CEN 13 March 2009). He … Continue Reading
Church of England Inter-Faith Relations: a Response to Melanie Phillips’s article in The Spectator by Guy Wilkinson National Inter-Faith Relations Adviser and Secretary for Inter-Faith Relations to the Archbishop of Canterbury copublished with the Spectator, 18 March 2009 We have seen in recent days in Northern Ireland just how deep antagonisms go and how long … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Book Review of Jonathan Clark, The Republic of Heaven (SPCK, 2008) by Sarah Cawdell Jonathan Clark is chair of affirming Catholicism UK and a member of General Synod. He has been a university chaplain and worked in theological education. He is now a parish priest, Rector of Stoke Newington, Hackney, London. The Republic of … Continue Reading