Day: July 12, 2010

Bonnie Anderson to visit Diocese of Springfield

“I am eager to visit the Diocese of Springfield as it prepares to elect a new bishop,” Anderson said. “Such elections provide the perfect opportunity for laity and clergy to collaborate on a new vision for their diocese, and to explore new ways of working together in building up the Church and reaching out to the poor and the marginalized.”

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Anglican District of Virginia files motion of appeal

ADV wants to now claim that it is significant that at some point in time congregations that were part of the provincial boundary crossing operations of the Province of Uganda became members of ADV, and under some horticultural purity law that means the nine congregations that affiliated initially only with the Church of Nigeria cannot be considered on a branch descended from the Church of Nigeria.

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Why worship must change to be effective

The church has to adapt its worship because our culture doesn’t recognize the value of worship when done as it was in generations past. Each generation is different in what it resonates with because over time the culture changes. The result is that worship rooted in previous generations loses its power to connect with each succeeding generation.

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Loved like children

I feel that our Christian speech about being sons and daughters of God often sounds glib. We would do well to take deeper soundings in its meaning. In his outdoor sermon in Athens, Paul quoted with approval a line from a pagan poet, “We too are his offspring” (Acts 17:28): simply as creatures all human beings are begotten and birthed by God.

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World peace

It is my belief that “leaving ourselves in peace” with our self-conceit and evil passions does not lead to real peace. Peace can be reached only through fighting against the ancient Adam in ourselves and in others.

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