The following appeared earlier on the Global South Anglican website as a comment to this article, but has now been removed. I have added some typographical emphases. 7. I just received the following confidential letter by e-mail from an esteemed…
On the one hand, two papers have been [re-]published on the GAFCON site, which are “to add to the understanding of the background to the Global Anglican Future Conference”: What is Anglicanism? – Archbishop Henry Orombi (Uganda) First published in…
Events in San Joaquin before Christmas are recorded here. Next, we have these blog reports from Fr Jake: Southern Cone Attempts to Remove Episcopal Vicar Sunday Worship for St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Exile, Atwater Reactions to the Southern Cone’s…
Giles Fraser wrote in the Guardian about A very lefty festival. The tradition of carols as an anarchic and populist form of devotion is alive and well, says Ian Bradley in Face to Faith. Jonathan Romain wrote in The Times…
‘Since Christmas a day: and the day of St Stephen, First Martyr. ‘Since St Stephen a day: and the day of St John the Apostle. ‘Since St John the Apostle a day: and the day of the Holy Innocents. ‘Since…
Today, the fourth day of Christmas, the Church remembers an incident recorded in Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus. The evangelist tells us how Herod, warned that a ‘new king of the Jews’ had been born in Bethlehem, gave…
Religious Intelligence had Rival Lambeth Conference announced by Nick Mackenzie. The Living Church had Traditionalists Plan June Conference in Holy Land. Christianity Today had Global Anglicans Face Test of Strength. The Washington Post in being the first mainstream media outlet…
In a surprising move, the Daily Telegraph has published a leader comment in favour of Church of England bishops. Commenting on a news article by its own Religious Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Petre, headlined One in five C of E bishops…
‘In the beginning was the Word’. So begins the gospel according to John, and it is John that is commemorated today: John the apostle, and John the gospel-writer or evangelist — perhaps the same person, perhaps not, but apostle and…
‘Good King Wenceslas looked out,’ we sing in the popular carol, ‘on the feast of Stephen’. Today is the feast of Stephen, perhaps the most under-observed feast in the calendar. Its proximity to the feast of the Nativity is intended…