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Year: 2009

The failed ecclesiology of Rowan Williams

October 23, 2009 5 Comments

Rowan Williams has separated out ecclesiastical rights from human rights, and has become complicit in the actions of African prelates and civil authorities against gay people; he has turned Church life into a form of isolated ecclesiastical bureaucracy; he has made a joke of critical theology and Biblical study when it comes to Church authority, and now for all this overturning of Anglican sensibilities for the greater goal he has been humiliated by Rome.

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The Jewish Christian tradition

October 23, 2009 No Comments

A study of James is indeed a study of the growth of the early Christian church as seen from the perspective of Jewish Christianity. James was the historical link between “his brother” Jesus and the emerging Christian church.

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President Anderson writes to the deputies of South Carolina

October 22, 2009 2 Comments

It is not uncommon for people to interpret actions of General Convention differently. On the issues addressed in the two resolutions, the Church has acknowledged that it is not of one mind. However, declaring actions of General Convention to be null and void and having no effect in a diocese is contrary to our polity and our Constitution and Canons.

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You’ve got mail

October 22, 2009 2 Comments

You’ve worked hard at your faith and always played by the rules. But lately you haven’t been happy with certain developments. Maybe you’re even on the fence about your religion. Sometimes you drive past a Catholic church and wonder, “What goes on in there?”

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What is a “former Anglican”?

October 22, 2009 2 Comments

Does the CDF regard Anglicans who enter into full Communion with the Catholic Church as having ceased to be Anglican (and hence as having become “former Anglicans”)? If so, then what can it possibly mean to “maintain an Anglican identity when entering the Catholic Church”?

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The Cafe Newsteam blogs the Vatican announcement

October 22, 2009 No Comments

You may have noticed the story which supplanted the “balloon boy” as this week’s “holy cow!” news event: the Vatican has announced a process to receive en masse disaffected Anglicans around the world into the Roman Catholic Church…here are some of the newsteam’s reactions

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Diana Butler Bass: Tell me something I don’t know

October 22, 2009 1 Comment

This week, the Vatican announced that it would make it easier for conservative Anglicans and Episcopalians–those uncomfortable with women priests and accepting gay people–to join the Roman Catholic Church. . .Reporters, however, have missed something important . . .

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Diocese of Sydney:
how to turn 160M into 44M

October 22, 2009 2 Comments

In a statement to the synod, Mr Shirriff said that despite reducing bank debt from $140m to $83m last year, the diocese had stayed geared too long in growth assets, which fell in value as the global economy worsened.

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