Goddard to Goddard: Andrew to Giles, 13 November

Andrew Goddard 12th Nov 2007 Dear Giles, Thanks for your letter and sorry my decision to focus on the pressing Communion issues in mid-Sept was ‘perplexing’ and left you ‘not absolutely sure how it fits into our correspondence’. It is interesting that discussing these political issues seems so fruitless. If I’m totally honest I have … Continue Reading

The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion: An Appraisal at a Time of Waiting

by Christopher Seitz In his lectures delivered at Wycliffe College, Toronto, last month, Ephraim Radner has given an historical account of conciliarism and has described how Anglicanism developed over time a set of Instruments intending to maintain unity of faith in the light of missionary expansion and the emergence of nations in the New World … Continue Reading

The Doctrine of Salvation among African Christians

The Doctrine of Salvation among African Christians by Chigor Chike 1 Introduction This article which is taken form my book African Christianity in Britain will be devoted to how salvation is understood in African Christianity. The first task will be to describe how salvation is understood on the African continent. This will be followed and … Continue Reading

New Orleans September 2007

Half Empty? Half Full? Too Little? Too Late? by Andrew Goddard part 2 (click here for part 1) II.B – Alternative Provision and External Interventions Episcopal Visitors The HoB here affirms a plan from the Presiding Bishop (still not published in full and so difficult to evaluate) ‘to appoint Episcopal visitors for dioceses that request … Continue Reading

The Anglican Communion after New Orleans and the Joint Standing Committee Report

As many predicted, some hopefully and some fearfully, the Joint Standing Committee (JSC) have given a positive assessment of the response of the The Episcopal Church’s (TEC) House of Bishops to the Primates’ Questions from Dar Es Salaam. In particular, in relation to the two key requests concerning TEC’s response to The Windsor Report (TWR), … Continue Reading

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Letter to the Church of England Newspaper, 28th September 2007

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Letter to the Church of England Newspaper 28 September 2007 from Dr Eeva John, the Revd Geoff Maughan, and the Revd Dr David Wenham republished with permission Recent revelations concerning the removal of Dr Elaine Storkey and of the Revd Dr Andrew Goddard and the Revd Lis Goddard from their posts at … Continue Reading

Half Empty? Half Full? Too Little? Too Late?

An analysis of the Response to the Primates by TEC HoB

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Fulcrum Response to the Statement from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church

Fulcrum Response to the Statement from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church New Orleans, 25 September 2007 We believe that the response from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church to the three central questions asked by the Primates’ Meeting in Dar es Salaam has been ‘yes, no, and no’: Yes to … Continue Reading

Fulcrum Comparative Study of Statements From Dar es Salaam and New Orleans

Fulcrum Comparative Study of Statements From Dar es Salaam and New Orleans The House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church USA met in New Orleans, 20-25 September 2007. They had been asked to respond to the communiqué of the Primates’ Meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 15-19 February 2007. The following notes are a summary … Continue Reading