According to many reports tonight, an earthquake measuring 6.3 has struck near Christchurch New Zealand. There have been numerous aftershocks, some over magnitude 5. Some
In this video, the Rev Canon Giles Fraser of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Ruth Gledhill discuss impending legislation that would make it legal for gays and lesbians to celebrate their civil partnerships with religious ceremonies in the United Kingdom.
We’ve opened our doors this week to provide a place of sanctuary, prayer, and respite in the midst of all that is taking place around us; and it may be that many of you have come today for that very reason, to hear words of comfort and solace and to take your minds off of what is occurring. If that was your hope, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
In the nearly 20 years that this website called ‘Anglicans Online’ has existed, we’ve tried to be a place outside politics, a via media centre where Anglicans of every stripe, opinion, background, and churchmanship (remember that word?) could come and be at home. But it’s time for Anglicans Online to state that we’re not in favour of the Covenant and cannot imagine a Communion bound by it.
Thanks to some good work by Mark Harris and his correspondents, it became clear over the weekend that the Rev. Julian Linnell, a member of the Evangelism and Church Growth Initiative (ECGI), is a priest in Bob Duncan’s schismatic Anglican Church in North America.
Spend nine minutes sorting through all that the folks in Fort Worth have had to go through, and be inspired by their pluck.
When my twenty-three year old son said to me, “Dad, don’t you understand that we’re the first generation that has thought we may be living in the literal end of the world?” I reminded him how my world in junior high school stopped dead as the classroom P.A. systems broadcast moment-by-moment radio reports of the last stage of the Cuban Missile crisis.
I have now said enough to let you into the reasons why I lately began Daily Service in this Church. I felt that we were very unlike the early Christians, if we went on without it; and that it was my business to give you an opportunity of observing it, else I was keeping a privilege from you.