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Immigration’s effect on Evangelicalism

August 8, 2008 No Comments

The demographic makeup of the evangelical movement within American christendom is changing. The driver of this change appears to be the assimilation into evangelicalism of large numbers of immigrants from around the world. Their presence is effecting the way evangelicals as whole view the relationship between Church and State, but it’s also serving to reinforce many of the existing social views of present evangelicalism.

Update on Pittsburgh

August 8, 2008 No Comments

Lionel Deimel, a lay person in the Diocese of Pittsburgh who is opposed to efforts to realign the Episcopal Diocese and remove it from the Episcopal Church, and perhaps from a connection with the Archbishop of Canterbury, has posted his analysis of the latest filing by that diocese in response to a lawsuit brought by one of the congregations.

An American press flack at Lambeth

August 8, 2008 No Comments

For an American church flak like me, learning to work with the British news media has been similar to learning to drive on British roads. The enterprises are fundamentally similar, and yet one’s reflexes need reconditioning to avoid accidents.

Exhuming Newman

August 8, 2008 2 Comments

Another story perhaps lost in the Lambeth avalanche was Jonathan Wynne-Jones’ article on the exhumation of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church, who was buried with his best friend, Ambrose St. John ( a name which the English pronounce “Sinjin” or “Wuster”, or something like that)

Point of view

August 8, 2008 1 Comment

There is something about spending days with children that slows one down and opens the eyes. Many have remarked on the wonder of seeing things only noticed by the under 10 set or those who see the world through the openness of a child or an artist.

The discipline of the mind

August 8, 2008 No Comments

The centers of intellectual and theological enquiry increasingly moved during the twelfth century to new cathedral “schools” that eventually gave birth to the great European universities. This involved a geographical shift of learning from countryside to new cities. However, the move involved more than geography.

Africans, yes. African-Americans, not so much

August 7, 2008 5 Comments

“It’s something that I like to point out,” said the Bishop Eugene Sutton,the first black Episcopal bishop in Maryland, “the historical anomaly of dioceses that have nothing to do with the black community going all the way to Africa to make these relationships.”

Inevitable! Untenable! Rowan Williams and his letters

August 7, 2008 9 Comments

There is rather more fallout from the revelation that the Archbishop of Canterbury holds a position on gay relationships that we already knew he held but had never seen him state so clearly than seems entirely necessary.

Are TEC liberals equivocating?

August 7, 2008 2 Comments

As for whether he would follow up on his earlier intention to push for ending the moratorium on gay bishops and allowing church recognition of same-sex marriage when the Episcopal Church meets at its General Convention next year, Shaw said he would now wait until he meets with all the American bishops next month to decide how he will proceed.

Notes from the PB’s Web cast

August 7, 2008 7 Comments

I was encouraged by what both bishops had to say about the future of the proposed Anglican Covenant. The appendix of the St. Andrew’s Draft of the covenant, which provides detailed and convoluted procedures by which one province might prosecute and eventually marginalize another, appears to be dead in the water.

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Immigration’s effect on Evangelicalism

Update on Pittsburgh

An American press flack at Lambeth

Exhuming Newman

Point of view

The discipline of the mind

Africans, yes. African-Americans, not so much

Inevitable! Untenable! Rowan Williams and his letters

Are TEC liberals equivocating?

Notes from the PB’s Web cast

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