- Break their bonds (08 Dec 06)
"He comes the prisoners to release In Satan's bondage held." Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion begins by quoting these words from one of Dr Williams's favourite ...
- Forbidden to follow (02 Dec 06)
As in every year several events come on top of each other this week: St. Andrew's Day (30 November) which in our Diocese is the usual day for ordinations World ...
- Affirming the truth (21 Nov 06)
Anglican-catholics call on Archbishop to tell the whole truth in Rome is the title of a press release issued by Affirming Catholicism:The progressive Anglican organisation Affirming Catholicism marked the Vatican ...
- George and the greenhouse (02 Nov 06)
No not George W. but +George V. Browning Anglican Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn who has written to Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kim Beazley that Australians could ...
- Frame to St. Mark's (01 Nov 06)
The Rt. Revd George Browning President of St Mark's Council announced today the appointment of the Rt. Revd Dr Thomas Frame BA(Hons) DipEd MTh MA(Hons) PhD as Director of St ...
- A spiritually dangerous movement (28 Oct 06)
In Dr Peter Jensen's important address on the Anglican Communion to the 2006 meeting of Diocese of Sydney's Synod he is modest about the role he expects his diocese to ...
- Awe and humility (22 Oct 06)
Today was our celebration of Creation Sunday. This painting Water is one of four painting on the wall of our church depicting earth water fire and the Spirit. Our ...
- An invitation to a journey (16 Oct 06)
Come and see!Perhaps:. . . you've never been to church; yet you may have questions about God Jesus and Christian life.. . . you've moved away from Christian faith and ...
- Let love be fed (08 Oct 06)
It was my turn to preach today and it fell to me to give a sermon on Mark 10.2-16 in which Jesus teaches about divorce. A tricky subject!. Later in ...
- Who goes to Lambeth? (05 Oct 06)
A piece in The Telegraph (2 Oct 06) by Jonathan Petre Religion Correspondent says that "conservative Anglican leaders" are urging the Archbishop of Canterbury to crack down on gay clergy ...
- Benedict and the tolerance of dialogue (20 Sep 06)
Pope Benedict's speech last week at the University of Regensburg which has caused so much anger among Muslims is a sophisticated argument delivered to an academic audience not a polemic. ...
- Celebrating conversation (10 Sep 06)
I have just returned from the 2006 meeting of the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. I'm glad that this was one of the resolutions agreed:Synod ...
- Our life and our death is with our neighbour (22 Aug 06)
I've been studying Rowan Williams' Silence and honey cakes: the wisdom of the desert a series of talks that draws on the wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers. Perhaps ...
- Bread or rice pudding? A sermon (13 Aug 06)
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost 13 August 2006 I Kings 19.4-8 John 6.35 41-51 What is the matter with Mary Jane? She's crying with all her might and main And she ...
- Temps vierge (03 Aug 06)
The contemplative life must provide an area a space of liberty of silence in which possibilities are allowed to surface and new choices -- beyond routine choice -- become manifest. ...
- Enough (24 Jul 06)
Regretfully I have decided to discontinue my enrolment as a PhD candidate. After obtaining a good honours degree in five years while working almost full time in a demanding job ...
- Clueless in spirit? (13 Jul 06)
On 11 July Presiding Bishop Griswold of the Episcopal Church said "I believe the election of Katharine Jefferts Schori Bishop of Nevada to be the 26th Presiding Bishop was the ...
- Not worth the candle (08 Jul 06)
In its Editorial of 7 July The Church Times asks "Is the Communion too much bother?"When Dr Williams released his reflection on the future of the Communion it was generally ...
- Christ-like ways of deciding (22 Jun 06)
Dr Kendall Harmon comments about the General Convention:I saw one bishop this morning who looked terrible and when I asked how he was doing he said "horrible I was up ...
- A small step towards women bishops in Australia (21 Jun 06)
Hard on the heels of Bishop Jefferts Schori's wonderful election as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church the Sydney Morning Herald reports without explanation or details that Sydney Anglicans have ...
- Chosen (19 Jun 06)
The Episcopal Church (of the U.S.) has chosen the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori for a nine-year term as its Presiding Bishop and Primate. The vote in the House of ...
- Chocolate, banana, or bread and wine? (18 Jun 06)
In common with much of the Anglican Communion The Episcopal Church now meeting in General Convention seems to be facing a choice between two sickly alternatives. Rather than cucumber sandwiches ...
- The Spirit and/or Windsor? (17 Jun 06)
Writing at Titus 1: 9 Dr Ephraim Radner observes:I am not surprised that there is an argument at GC [General Convention] over whether or not to vote on the clear ...
- Windsor and cucumber sandwiches (17 Jun 06)
Doubtless her Majesty serves cucumber sandwiches at Windsor but here I am thinking of a rather less tasty product of Windsor and American Episcopalians' apparent disdain for upper crust afternoon ...
- Listening and the centre aisle (14 Jun 06)
Amidst the plethora of debate commentary and blogging about the current general convention of the Episcopal Church of the USA the Diocese of Virginia is offering a running report and ...
- Tradition in discipleship (12 Jun 06)
At seminar recently a lecturer from my school observed that Jesus made choices about his use of the tradition. We can follow he said by making choices ouselves; this is ...
- The Spirit is not torn (11 Jun 06)
The Episcopal Church of the USA is gathering for its General Convention and there is too much trepidation as to the outcomes. The Revd Tobias Haller BSG is right when ...
- The thought of ultimate waste (10 Jun 06)
Nothing is so paralysing and destructive to the human spirit as the thought of ultimate waste. Yet that is just the appearance which much in human life seems inevitably to ...
- Well honoured (04 Jun 06)
On Friday I attended the 2006 graduation ceremony of my school the Charles Sturt University School of Theology. I was delighted that the University's highest award Doctor of the University ...
- Where is the body? (31 May 06)
In his University Sermons (p.147) Archibald Craig asks "Where would you expect to find the body of Christ and what would you expect to find it doing?" His answer is ...
- A permanent conflict? (28 May 06)
If this comment by Neibuhr is right does it mean that religion is at times of necessity immoral and that God is therefore also immoral (morality of course not being ...
- Better to perish (28 May 06)
This takes a bit of reading but once you get past the double negatives and the non-inclusive language an important point is being made. No one who seeks after God ...
- Augustine and Gregory (27 May 06)
The twenty sixth of May is the feast of Augustine of Canterbury who died on that day possibly in 605. I am an Associate of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory. ...
- Challenging secularism not sex (20 May 06)
In its Editorial 20 May 2006 The Tablet notes thatThe Da Vinci Code rebuttal unit set up to refute the view that there is a grain of truth in the ...
- Work in the present moment (06 May 06)
In a certain sense there is little to do in doing the will of God. Still it is true that it is a great work because it must be without ...
- Our perversion of religion (06 May 06)
Will Those Responsible Come Forward?May the Lord have mercy on all those peoplesWho suffer from a perversion of religion --Or to put it in a less equivocating way Who suffer ...
- Nothing more, nothing less and nothing else (02 May 06)
With a hat-tip to Titusonenine I'm much in agreement with this piece from the web archives (Oct. 2003) of the Revd Gordon Tremaine Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in ...
- The catholic side of Azusa Street (30 Apr 06)
This month has seen the centenary of the "Azusa Street Revival" which began on 9 April 1906 and had an important part in the beginnings of the contemporary Pentecostal and ...
- Action, belief, sight (27 Apr 06)
Confessing Reader has published a fine sermon preached Dr Stanley Hauerwas of Duke Divinity School at the Church of the Holy Family Chapel Hill North Carolina on the Second Sunday ...
- Lurid and melodramatic (22 Apr 06)
There was criticism of the prayers written for and used by Pope Benedict XVI at the Good Friday Stations of the Cross observance in Rome recently. Words like "Today we ...
- Baghdad belief (16 Apr 06)
I appreciate Thinking Anglicans' regular summary of the British columnists. This week the "Credo" column in The Times (15 Apr 06) is by the Revd Canon Andrew White an Anglican ...
- The women at the Resurrection (16 Apr 06)
This Easter Day we read the resurrection account from Mark 16.1-8. One way to think of this text is from the point of view of the women in the story ...
- Should Christians be green? an essay (04 Apr 06)
The Green program is a program of action centred on sustainability justice equity and peace. Traditional understandings of the imago Dei have been criticised as anthropocentric and divorcing humankind from ...
- The pretentions of final truth (30 Mar 06)
The philosopher is anxious to arrive at the truth; but he is also anxious to prove that his particular truth is the truth. He is never as completely in possession ...
- Cranmer's contribution to the English reformation (28 Mar 06)
March 21st was the 450th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. How important and how durable was Cranmer's contribution to the English reformation? The English reformation was complex ...
- Enough backbone to be conscientious? (27 Mar 06)
By the Revd Canon Marilyn McCord Adams Regius Professor of Divinity and canon of Christ Church Oxford from The Guardian 25 March 2006Liberal tolerance is easy even for liberals to ...
- More truly reverential (25 Mar 06)
Who that knows anything of the conditions of human knowledge of the difficulties of the search for truth and of the innumerable influences that affect human beliefs can for a ...
- Communion yes, but do we need 'The Communion'? (13 Mar 06)
Stephen Bates religious affairs correspondent of The Guardian writing in the "View from Fleet Street" column of the the Church of England Newspaper on 3 March 2006 reproduced by Thinking ...
- Whose love we experience (12 Mar 06)
Dr Peter Jensen Anglican Archbishop of Sydney wrote recently against the idea that it is a new 'heresy' to be sure of anything. I appreciate what Dr Jensen is saying; ...
- Shamed by all that was respectable (11 Mar 06)
In Episcopal Life (March 2005) Jerry Hames writes about about a series of icons for the Stations of the Cross created by Gwyneth Leech and installed at St. Paul's on ...
- The more we know, the more we ponder (08 Mar 06)
Give to us open minds O God minds ready to receive and to welcome such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal. Let not the past ...
- A handle on mortality (05 Mar 06)
In the BBC's Thought for the Day for 2 March 2006 The Rev. Dr Giles Fraser reminded his hearers that Lent begins with the message that we are mortal.Yesterday I ...
- Everything to the maximum (23 Feb 06)
The Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne has been unable to accept any of the candidates proposed by its board of nominators for election as Archbishop. A deadlocked election ...
- Mwamba's message of maturity (18 Feb 06)
The Rt. Revd. Trevor Mwamba Anglican Bishop of Botswana told a news conference in Cape Town on 2 February 2006 that the church needed to re-discover its mission to deal ...
- The weakness of violence (11 Feb 06)
Today's newspapers are full of column after column of analysis and punditry about those cartoons and the response to them. It's hard to know whether it is Really Important or ...
- Faith filled uncertainty (04 Feb 06)
There's already quite of lot of commentary on a long article by Peter Slevin in the Washington Post (2 Feb.) about the views of John Danforth lifelong Republican Episcopal priest ...
- Lessons in unfamiliar terms (01 Feb 06)
It takes a long time for the average over-intellectualized person to realize that in this particular sphere of reality he must be prepared to receive illumination from the most unexpected ...
- Learning to read slowly (29 Jan 06)
That daily quarter of an hour for now forty years or more I am sure has been one of the greatest sustenances and sources of calm for my life. Of ...
- Communion in diversity (24 Jan 06)
In July 2005 in a non-binding decision the General Synod of the U.S. United Church of Christ agreed to allow solemnisation of same-sex unions. The UCC now reports that less ...
- Simple oneness (22 Jan 06)
Many have been praying this week for Christian unity. To me the Christian unity thing doesn't seem all that complex. John 13.35 "[Jesus said] By this everyone will know that ...
- Not a heretic, but a bit Pelagian? (15 Jan 06)
You'll be relieved to discover dear reader that in this quiz I scored as Chalcedon compliant. "believing that Jesus is truly God and truly human and like us in every ...
- The Land of the Never Wrong (14 Jan 06)
TitusOneNine notes an item by John Feinstein in the Washington Post (11 Jan) about an arrogant but gifted athlete who despite his misconduct is confident of selection for a professional ...
- Epiphany lily (06 Jan 06)
In its wider meaning the Feast of the Epiphany celebrates the revelation to us in Christ of the glory and power of God. There are many of these lovely lillies ...
- Truthful companion (06 Jan 06)
At last after eight months delay my university has approved my doctoral research proposal. The title is Truthful companion: a pneumatology of wisdom in the life of the church. The ...
- Royal faith (03 Jan 06)
In her speech opening the eighth General Synod of the Church of England on 15 November 2005 Her Majesty the Queen said The thirty-five years since the introduction of synodical ...
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