Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 29th, 2007

Sarah Dylan Breuer has issued an invitation at Grace Notes. …I’d love to see if the community of readers here and on ‘reasserter’ (a term often preferred for self-designation by people often designated as ‘conservatives’ by progressives) blogs such as…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 28th, 2007

Archbishop Peter Akinola is going to visit Virginia USA. Read all about it in the New York Times where Neela Bannerjee reports Visit by Anglican Bishop Draws Episcopal Anger. Here is the place where this event will occur. The Presiding…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 28th, 2007

Christopher Howse in the Daily Telegraph has Rowan Williams on the side of the angels. Shelina Zahra Janmohamed writes the Face to Faith column in the Guardian and blogs at Spirit21. The Times Credo column is written by Roderick Strange….

Anglican Church of Canada News on April 26th, 2007

[ACNS] Decision-makers met last week to continue their planning for progress plans for the Lambeth Conference 2008.

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 26th, 2007

An open letter to Rowan Williams was issued by a distinguished group of Episcopal rectors and cathedral deans who had been staying at the Canterbury Cathedral. You can read the full text of it at the Episcopal Café Letter to…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 25th, 2007

A working group of the Mission and Discipleship Council of the Church of Scotland is to present the General Assembly with an in-depth report on ‘same-sex partnerships as an issue in theology and human sexuality’. Read the official press release…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 24th, 2007

Dr Rowan Williams today delivered a Wilberforce Lecture in Hull. Last Sunday, the Sunday Times printed an advance extract from the lecture which you can read at Down with godless government and about which Christopher Morgan wrote Archbishop tells MPs…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 24th, 2007

Religious beliefs give no right to discriminate against gays is the title of an article in The Times today, written by David Pannick QC. This article is concerned with the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007. (PDF of print version…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 24th, 2007

The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams delivered a lecture with the above title last Saturday. Its subtitle was Spiritual Temptations and Ecclesial Opportunities. The occasion of this was the LGCM Annual Conference in London. You can read the text of…

Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans on April 23rd, 2007

The bishops of the Province of Central Africa have issued a Pastoral Letter. The text of the letter can be read here. This news has been reported widely, see Associated Press African Anglican Bishops Support Mugabe and the Angola Press…