Members of the Anglican Communion Institute have published several essays recently. Ephraim Radner, who also made a presentation to the House of Bishops on the Proposed Anglican Covenant published What Way Ahead? and What Way Ahead – Part Two. Christopher…
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Press release from Affirming Catholicism 30 March 2007 Women bishops: the limits of dissent Affirming Catholicism has made a formal submission to a Church of England group charged with drawing up the legislation that will enable women to become bishops….
Judith Maltby writes in the Guardian about Good Friday. Jonathan Sacks writes in The Times about Passover. Christopher Howse writes in the Daily Telegraph about Circumcision. Paul McPartlan writes in the Tablet about Palm Sunday. Simon Parke writes in the…
The story is told of a janitor who worked at a synod office that was struggling with a multitude of issues. He went from office to office, picking up the garbage, listening to person after person mumble and complain about each other and the problems they were facing. He got to the end of the hall turned back towards the offices and shouted, “You mean he died for this?” Like so many of the parables, the story remains unfinished. We don’t know how the synod office responded but those spoken words always haunt me during Holy Week.
Verbatim transcripts of the proceedings of the reent meeting of General Synod are starting to appear online here. So far transcripts of the first two days are available….
In addition to the report from Bishop Jim Kelsey, there is now a very long report indeed from Bishop Pierre Whalon, who is Bishop of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe. That is available as a Word document at…
The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples has added its voice to those urging Prime Minister Stephen Harder to reconsider the government’s decision not to apologize to former students of Indian Residential Schools.
Earlier, I identified a list of possible “Windsor” bishops which numbered fourteen, in addition to the ten bishops of NACDAP dioceses. Recently Stand Firm has been trying to find out how these bishops voted at the recent American HoB meeting,…
The Bishop of Northern Michigan, Jim Kelsey, has published a lengthy and detailed report of the recent American House of Bishops meeting. The whole document can be read at Jim Kelsey’s report on the Spring Bishops’ Meeting March, 2007 on…