Author: John B. Chilton

Breaking: ACI declaring dioceses independent?

Mark Harris: a paper signed by a number of bishops connected to the “Communion Partners” and prepared by the Anglican Communion Institute will challenge the notion that dioceses of TEC are part of TEC in any other way except by voluntary association, and that therefore they are free to independently subscribe to the Anglican Covenant and maintain pastoral visitation and oversight independent of any agreement with TEC or its leadership.

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The Anglican right and the psychological fringe

Anglican Mainstream, one of the leading organizations on the Anglican right in Great Britain, is bringing an American psychotherapist who is anything but mainstream to England this week. He is Joseph Nicolosi, is one of the founder of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, the flat earth society of the therapeutic world.

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Dean Slee challenges Nazir-Ali

The Very Rev Colin Slee, the liberal Dean of Southwark has publicly attacked the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, and said that he was one of three bishops whose position was now “open to some debate”.

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Evangelism, identity and theology

Dean Ian Markham of Virginia Theological Seminary gave the initial presentation in the Diocese of Washington’s evangelism series. He spoke on the book Why Liberals Churches are Growing, which he co-edited with Martyn Percy, among other things. The video is about 50 minutes long.

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GAFCON thunders. The media yawn.

Paul Handley of the Church Times writes about being the only journalist at the news conference held last week by the GAFCON primates to announce the foregone conclusion that they were going to recognize the churches of the conservative Americans who pay their bills.

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The betrayal of Archbishop Jesus by the writer Judas

Sometimes we receive a comment that is worthy of being made into an item. We received this one on an item about Archbishop Henry Orombi, who was recently feted with a four-page advertorial in an Ugandan newspaper. A newspaper columnist thought the money poorly spent. Here is a response from Mr. Richard Obura, provincial treasurer of the Church of Uganda.

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The physics of faith

Christian thinkers have long employed insights from sociology, literature, and other fields to augment their ideas of how God works in the world. Yet despite the world-changing insights of science, very few theologians have drawn on physics, biology or geology in the same way. Renowned Anglican physicist-theologian John Polkinghorne wants to change all that.

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The argument from ducks

Somehow we missed this episode of the Colbert Report in which Stephen squares off with Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, author of Jesus, Interrupted. I am divine and you are the branches, indeed.

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