Year: 2009

Is God punishing Sydney?

The Archdiocese of Sydney, one of the leading voices of conservative theology within the Anglican Communion, has suffered a huge financial loss in the past year. Peter Jensen, the Archbishop of the Diocese, is now wondering aloud about whether or not this loss constitutes God’s judgement upon them.

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David Bailey elected Canon to the Ordinary for Navajoland

The Episcopal Church in Navajoland has been without a bishop since Bishop MacDonald accepted a call from his position as assisting bishop there to serve the indigenous people of the Anglican Church of Canada. Over the weekend the Rev. Canon David Bailey was named Canon to the Ordinary in this interim period.

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Sydney taken to court over deacons presiding at communion

There’s a new development in the continuing story of the Diocese of Sydney’s decision to allow deacons to “celebrate” the Holy Eucharist as a way of avoiding having to ordain women to the priesthood. According to news reports in Australia a church court has been convened to hear a suit brought against Sydney by other Australian bishops.

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Luke the physician

There is no way for me to speak objectively of St. Luke or of his feast day. I live with a physician, have spent almost 75 percent of my life with him, and plan to spend 100 percent of its remainder with him.

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Sunday Social Hour

The weekly roundup of social media responses to our posts. Twitter has been quiet this week, although we’ve seen plenty of retweets from our followers, and Facebook has seen some lively conversation about the merits or lack thereof of Rick Warren’s books, among other things.

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