It would, of course, be naïve to assume that the Synod of Whitby settled all differences in favor of Rome. Few immediate changes took place, and there was no immediate large-scale submission of the Celtic Church to the Roman. But the balance had been tipped in favor of the Roman party.
Between the Monster and the Saint is the latest in a series of meditations on the nature of morality by the former bishop of Edinburgh – a man who, for many conservative Christians, has stretched the definition of liberal theology past breaking point, while remaining for many non-believers the most humane and persuasive apologist for faith.
written thru The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops has deposed Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh for abandonment of communion. Eighty-eight bishops voted in favor of
Polls have yet to measure the Palin Effect on younger evangelical voters, whose shifting political allegiances put the demographic in play for both major-party presidential campaigns. However, it seems that conservatives are energized much like their elders, progressives are unimpressed and many undecideds are gravitating toward McCain-Palin.
The Archbishop of Wales yesterday warned any attempt to find a quick-fix solution to issues dividing the world’s 80 million Anglicans would “end in tears”. He told the Church in Wales’ Governing Body in Lampeter that sexuality should not be a “Communion-breaking” issue and that
Churches should not be required to sign-up to a new set of binding beliefs.
A constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California has lost support during the past two months and now trails by a 17-point margin. Just 38 percent of likely voters back Proposition 8 while 55 percent say they will vote against the Nov. 4 ballot measure, according to a new Field Poll. In July, the measure trailed by nine points.
Read what Bishop Martyn Minns of the Church of Nigeria had to say at the Value Voters Summit last week. The speech was covered in World Magazine, which is edited by Marvin Olasky.
Sacrifice is one of those biblical concepts that make people uncomfortable. We don’t like it, and we’re glad we don’t do it any more. How is killing an animal going to help anything, and why would that make God happy? Chapter after chapter in the latter portion of the Torah detail exacting rules for cutting up critters. Needless to say, our lectionaries skip those.
The Oxford Movement called on people to look more deeply into the institutional life of the established Church to discover its inner mystery as the Body of Christ. In reading the Tracts one discovers beneath the concern for institutional structures a deep piety and spirituality, and even more a sense that the Tractarians’ concern about institutions and their outward forms arose from what they believed about Jesus Christ as Lord of the Church.
First day report from the House of Bishops meeting in Salt Lake City. Discussion centered around their experience of the Lambeth Conference. The bishops will take up the matter of the status of the Bishop of Pittsburgh, Robert Duncan, later in their meeting. UPDATED