Administrator on July 19th, 2006

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Wednesday, July 19th, A.D. 2006

General Religious News

TRADITIONALISTS in the Church of England are preparing for a possible breakaway over women bishops by taking legal advice on whether they could claim property worth more than £1 billion; Women can be bishops, Synod rules. Challenges continue [...]

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 17th, 2006

The Church of England now has an RSS feed for its News page. Read about it here. Thinking Anglicans also has RSS feeds: one for articles, one for comments. On the home page look in the left hand column for…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 16th, 2006

Here is one Church of England diocese that is taking seriously the request of the Lambeth Conference and other bodies to engage in listening: Listening for the Truth in Love, which was launched on 13 July, is a listening process….

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 16th, 2006

TA recently linked to a Church Times article by Vincent Strudwick. Discussion of the covenant proposals here and elsewhere suggests that not everyone has read the latest covenant document published by the Anglican Communion Office. This was linked on TA…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 16th, 2006

There have been several interviews: Time 10 Questions For Katharine Jefferts Schori or without graphics here. Living Church Bishop Jefferts Schori: Open to the Spirit’s Leading. Back in June, PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly had a TV interview: you can…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 15th, 2006

In this week’s Tablet Richard Harries writes about The female mitre. Yesterday’s Guardian had an interesting feature article by Natasha Walter about CofE schools: On a wink and a prayer. Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph about the poet RS…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 14th, 2006

Vincent Strudwick wrote in last week’s Church Times about the proposed Anglican covenant. The strapline: The Anglican covenant is about working together, not agreeing on doctrine. Give it a chance, argues Vincent Strudwick: ‘We need each other and our conflicting…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 14th, 2006

From last week’s Church Times : Pat Ashworth reports at length on an episcopal saga in Central Africa, Court pursues Primate over bishop’s aborted trial. She concludes: …The Archbishop of Canterbury has no jurisdiction in Central Africa. But there is…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 14th, 2006

The hugely comprehensive coverage of General Synod in today’s Church Times is available at present only to subscribers. TA will link to that material next week. For now, the following items are available: News Report: Synod hands women over to…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on July 13th, 2006

The Church of England Newspaper is on the web today with numerous reports of General Synod: Quandary ahead on women bishops Faithful Cities report lacks evangelistic focus – says Synod Commissioners want scrutiny Synod’s Carbon attitudes lukewarm Women bishops are…