As fellow swimmer Gavin Ashenden notes: It has been announced that Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, has left Anglicanism and become a Roman Catholic.He was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, entering the ordinariate on his name day, the feast of St Michael, two weeks ago.This is without doubt one of …
Will the Church fail like the police?
The sleepy pages of the Church Times may seem an unlikely place for a bad-tempered exchange about policing. But it seems that both the church and the…Will the Church fail like the police?
The town that was murdered
For a small town on Tyneside, Jarrow has always had an outsized impact on our national story. In the seventh and eighth centuries its church and …The town that was murdered
Dying Alone in 2021
Last spring, as lockdown orders went out to American cities and states, many prominent Christian voices equated masking, social distancing, and …Dying Alone in 2021
Modern Pentecost’s Use of an Anglican’s Missionary Method
In this interesting article about Assemblies of God missionaries to Latin America Melvin and Lois Hodges, this observation: Melvin and Lois Hodges teamed with veteran missionary Ralph Williams, who practiced English missionary Roland Allen’s philosophy of indigenous principles. While ministering in Nicaragua, Hodges was given an opportunity to put into practice these principles, which Allen …
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John Shelby Spong Goes to Meet God
It's done, per the notice on the right. Rather than endure the accusation that he can no longer defend himself, I'll stick with stuff I've already posted, some of which goes back to the beginning of this website/blog. I'll start with John Shelby Spong, Surrender Monkey: John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, is …
The Jawbone of an Ass
This morning's devotional from St. Peter's Anglican Church in Memphis features the following morning scripture reading, part of which is reproduced below: 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax …
Stand, Therefore
One of the reasons that the ACNA was founded—one for which I was eager to sign up after our church had been sold to a mosque—was so that the whole counsel of Scripture, God’s Holy Word, could be proclaimed and obeyed without apology and without anxious worry about getting in trouble over it. The post…Stand, …
Squaring the Circle of Anglican/Episcopal Ministry
At the end of Dante's Paradiso, in his vision of God, he says the following: Like a geometer wholly dedicatedto squaring the circle, both who cannot find,think as he may, the principle indicated--so did I study the supernal face.I yearned to to know just how our image mergesinto that circle, and how it then finds …
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Phillips an Early Translation? Hardly.
Robin Jordan makes an interesting statement about translations of the Bible into English: I have been reading J. B. Phillips’ translation of the Gospels into modern English. It is one of the earliest translations of the Gospels into the vernacular. The Gospels are the part of the Bible with which I am the most familiar. …
Positive Infinity 