More than 4,000 Anglicans have given their support to calls for the introduction of women bishops in the Church of England without special legislation to protect opponents of the move. Supporters gathered today at Westminster Abbey for a press conference in advance of the General Synod this coming weekend in York.
Some GAFCON pilgrims are disappointed that an explicit pro-life plank was not included in the final document despite their efforts to have their views included. It appears that the final document was relatively unchanged from the original that existed at the beginning of the conference.
The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns led a news teleconference this morning to tell reporters about the significant happenings at the recent GAFCON conference in Jerusalem.
Updated with Reuters report. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori responds to the GAFCON statement: Much of the Anglican world must be lamenting the latest emission
We have seen instances of intervention in dioceses whose leadership is unquestionably orthodox simply because of local difficulties of a personal and administrative nature. We have also seen instances of clergy disciplined for scandalous behaviour in one jurisdiction accepted in another, apparently without due process.
The anti-gay crusade being led by Archbishops Peter Jensen and Henry Orombi, among others, is not receiving uniformly good reviews back home.
Stephen Waldman from BeliefNet notes that the second part of the Pew Study released earlier this week contains statistics that address “the three big religion-and-politics questions of 2008”: Do Democrats still suffer from a God Gap? Which way will Catholics break in the election? And, can Obama do well among evangelicals?
I return often to Underhill’s writing, fascinated by this intensely prayerful woman, who wrote articles, books, and letters of direction and led retreats at a time when there was no real category to describe her vocation. The voice that comes through her work reveals a personality that was consecrated, alive, ardent, joyful and very insistent, a strong personality, absorbed in the love of Christ, yet with a homey, conversational style that is engaging
Nobody knows where Saul is, although it is said he has changed his name to Paul. Now he appears in Jerusalem, asking to meet Peter. If we can trust the second-century write Onesiphoros, the figure who entered the room that day and walked forward to meet Peter and James was not impressive.