I will stop the world no more
July 3, 2008
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The Rev. Terry Martin, better known as Father Jake to tens of thousands of fans in the Anglican blogosphere, announced last night that he is
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Running the numbers
July 3, 2008
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More than 650 bishops have registered for the Lambeth Conference. That’s slightly more than three-quarters of the invitees. A small number of sees are vacant, and some bishops simply cannot attend, so it is difficult to say which absentees are boycotting, and which simply aren’t coming, but the boycott may account for some 20 percent of potential attendees.
Women as global church
July 3, 2008
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Sometime in the 1980s a shift happened within churches and in ecumenical gatherings, both formal and informal. The focus of women’s language about church participation, both at the grass roots and among professional theologians, shifted from a “Please, sir, may I have some more” approach to a different angle: “We are church and have always been church.”
The faith of Franklin
July 3, 2008
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[Benjamin] Franklin was also among those Deists who remained open to the possibility of divine intervention or special providence in human affairs. . . . Unlike radical, or anti-Christian Deists, Franklin perceived that organized religion could benefit society by encouraging public virtue as well as by promoting social order.
Canon Cameron echoes Archbishop Williams
July 2, 2008
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Every Ephraimite seeking to cross the river is questioned by the Gileadites. If they cannot pronounce the word “shibboleth” correctly, thus proving themselves aliens, they are slaughtered, and the Scriptures recalls that 42,000 Ephraimites are killed as a result.
Canadian Primate responds to GAFCON
July 2, 2008
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I do not believe the Anglican Communion is paralyzed by a false gospel. While we recognize that our relationships are bruised and broken the gospel calls us to be reconciled, to pursue healing and to seek the counsel of the Holy Spirit. It calls all those in leadership to use their authority “not to hurt but to heal, not to destroy but to build up” and “to unite the church in a holy fellowship of truth and love.”
Obama reaches out to Christians on the left
July 2, 2008
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Brian McLaren – who will be at Lambeth July 19-24 – is quoted in this CNN story on Obama’s move to mobilize Christians on the
London GAFCON rally
July 2, 2008
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Leaders of GAFCON took their manifesto to England yesterday at a gathering of 750 at All Souls in Central London. Thinking Anglicans, as usual, does
What do your bumper stickers reveal about you?
July 2, 2008
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More than you intend.
The testing of Abraham
July 2, 2008
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Maybe it’s a grudge, a sweet and sour grudge. Maybe it’s an ideology, that has proven successful in this world. Maybe it’s tribal or national or political convictions. No matter what, all of this stuff can become idolatrous, even one’s own household can be, and idolatrous stuff cannot come with us into the kingdom.
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