Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In his own wrap of the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams made a statement that, for me, stuck out like a sore thumb: Drawing upon a phrase coined by the English Roman Catholic nun, Maria Boulding, Dr Williams stated “the alternatives for Christians were not success or failure, but glorious failure and …
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Two events this past weekend ran together to illustrate what is, for me, the central dilemma of living in this world--the fact that authority no longer reflects what we know to be true. Let's start with the church. In reaction to my posting of George Conger and Kevin Kallsen Put a Wrap on the Anglican …
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http://blip.tv/play/AYGAtzOUogk This is about a succinct take on the failure of the Covenant (for which few tears are shed here, for this reason) as I've seen. In addition to the subject matter, I'm posting this for two reasons. The first is that I find myself lost in many of the parliamentary and procedural reports I …
Mark Harris transmits a splendid proposed resolution for GC 2009 about TEC's participation in the Anglican Communion: Given our current relation to the Anglican Communion, a proper application of PAP (Principle of Anglican Progress) would require that The Episcopal Church declare a moratorium on funding the Anglican Communion until such time as the mind of …
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This book review is a little different than some of the other's I've done lately. Not only is Basic Christianity well known (it was first published in 1958, I read the 50th anniversary edition) but reading it brought up some thoughts and emotions that I'd like to spend time on. But first the book itself: …
Well, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) is kicking off its quadrennial meeting in Kingston, Jamaica. (I wish my church would have the good sense to have its General Assembly in Jamaica, but I digress...) One of the items on the agenda is the decision to send the latest draft of the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant …
J.I. Packer is one of the most eminent writers and theologians in the Anglican world. His claim to fame was sealed by his being defrocked by Michael Ingham, the revisionist Bishop of New Westminster whose sanctioning of same-sex blessings predates the American's ordination of V. Gene Robinson. It's one of those things that, if he …
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Bishop of New Hampshire V. Gene Robinson is at it again: The first openly gay Episcopal bishop told a Los Angeles gathering yesterday that the church should begin mending divisions over the issue of same-sex marriage by getting out of the civil marriage business altogether. During a visit to St. Michael and All Angels Church, …
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Tull fans may remember this line from A Passion Play: We pray for souls in Kentish Town. Evidently someone's prayers along these lines got answered, as the former well-known sceptic A.N. Wilson attests: A week ago, there were Palm Sunday processions all over the world. Near my house in North London is a parish with …
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He poses the problem: "Let's be honest, most of the discrimination ... has come at the hands of religious people, and the greatest single hindrance to the achievement of full civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people can be laid at the doorstep of the three Abrahamic faiths: Christianity, Judaism and Islam," Robinson …
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