- Satan Claus (19 Dec 07)
Death to Santa Claus. St Nicholas is the real deal. Buy nothing. ...
- An infeasible doctrinal unity (11 Nov 07)
One of the problems faced by we Anglicans is that we are good at starting things but sometimes unable to end them when they are no longer of value. Beyond ...
- Agreeing with Akinola on Lambeth (06 Nov 07)
I am not always in agreement with the Most Revd Dr Peter Akinola. But I do agree with him in arguing for the postponement or outright cancellation of the Lambeth ...
- Quizzed eucharistically (28 Oct 07)
This Eucharistic theology quiz rates me as Lutheran which is probably fair enough as the closest option to Anglican! You scored as Luther. You'll stick with the words of Scripture ...
- A most productive gathering (28 Oct 07)
14th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia held in Canberra this past week was productive gathering. A great deal was done and it was good to be part ...
- Intercessions for the General Synod. (20 Oct 07)
Intercessions for the opening worship of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia Saturday 21 October 2007 led by Brian McKinlay of Canberra and Goulburn. God of all ...
- Wanted: visionaries and prophets (18 Oct 07)
Anglicans in Australia (UNSW Press 2007) is the latest welcome book by Bishop Tom Frame Director of St. Mark's National Theological Centre here in Canberra. Its release is timed to ...
- God calls upon us to live dangerously (29 Sep 07)
A piece by Safdar Hasan Siddiqi author of The role of Islam in the twenty-first century: A journey towards peace amity progress. Ferozsons 1997. Pakistan Times 21 Jun 06.God belongs ...
- The bread which we all break (18 Sep 07)
While I was on holiday The Sydney Morning Herald (17 Sep 07) reported that the Anglican Diocese of Sydney has "revived its radical push to let church elders preside over ...
- Be (26 Jul 07)
Be simply be in the stillness of my heart that my heart may be in all I doHeart gone walkabout: poems prayers lines and spaces / Noel Davis. (With my ...
- Mischief from the South (23 Jul 07)
On 18 Jul 07 Anglican Communion primates from the Global South have issued a statement saying they will continue to violate the boundaries of the Episcopal Church and may intervene ...
- The Bible doesn't say anything (21 Jul 07)
In an essay "Rivers of revelation" (The Tablet 14 Jul 07 pp.14-15) Nicholas King SJ reflects on the recent flooding in the UK on finding meaning amid the destruction and ...
- The Synodical not-so-melting teapot (14 Jul 07)
Giles Fraser's columns in The Church Times are always interesting. Even when he writes on specifically English matters there is often value for we non-English. This time (13 Jul 07) ...
- Communion is Christ not covenant (08 Jul 07)
This passage from Orthodox theologian Olivier Clément's small book Taizé: a meaning to life (Chicago: GIA Pubs 1997 pp. 37-38) illustrates why a written 'covenant' such as that being considered ...
- Covenantal caution (06 Jul 07)
Church Times 7530 (6 Jul 07) notes call in the Church of England for caution in approval of an Anglican Covenant. The present General Synod motion asks the Synod to: ...
- No jurisdiction in this realm (29 Jun 07)
I'm encouraged by the decision of the Anglican Church of Canada against the inclusion of the Primates in the membership of the Anglican Communion Council. Giles Fraser writes (with his ...
- Niether North nor South, but Centre (23 Jun 07)
Though I'm a 'Northerner' in outlook myself I do believe that the 'Global Center' position chosen by the Latin American and Carribbean bishops is the path of sense and sensibility ...
- Christlikeness is full humanity (17 May 07)
The International Herald Tribune (15 May 07) has a piece by James Carroll of The Boston Globe who uses Benedict XVI's visit to Brazil as an opportunity to consider 'Thought ...
- True communion? (14 May 07)
On 6 May 07 Andrew Brown argued in The Guardian that Archbishop Akinola's actions mean that schism in the Anglican Communion is now an reality but that the schismatic forcxes ...
- Our faith will thrive on mystery (01 May 07)
Faith will not grow from words alone from proofs provided scripture known; our faith must feel its way about and live with question-marks and doubt. The pattern Jesus showed we ...
- God bearing suffering, not inflicting it (18 Apr 07)
Ekklesia reports (18 Apr 07) that the Anglican Dean of St Albans the Very Revd Dr Jeffrey John received many "abusive and obscene" letters from people who objected to his ...
- Waterless Easter (09 Apr 07)
Easter Message 2007 The Most Reverend Dr Phillip Aspinall Primate Anglican Church of Australia This year as we follow again Christ's journey to the cross we are surrounded by ...
- In the belly of the fish (08 Apr 07)
In a series of posts (from no. 18693 to no. 18706) Canon Kendal Hermon of TitusOneNine has selected some valuable reflections and prayers on Holy Saturday. This year I felt ...
- The Easter shout is not enough (07 Apr 07)
Easter Message by the Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan Archbishop of WalesIt is not enough for the Church of Jesus Christ to shout on Easter morning that Christ is risen ...
- Do we want the light to shine? (06 Apr 07)
No bishop is faultless but I am partciualrly glad the the Rt Revd George Browning is our bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn; this is his challenging ...
- The community of the sufferers (06 Apr 07)
The seventeenth century divine Thomas Watson said that it was a greater humiliation for Jesus to be incarnate as a man than it was for him to suffer the cross. ...
- A holy week (06 Apr 07)
This Holy Week is a week of new beginnings for me symbolised by a change in my employment from next Tuesday. So I'm to taking time to reflect by participating ...
- The annunciation : a gift we dare not deny (26 Mar 07)
1000th post 26 March : The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fra Angelico. Annunciation. San Marco Florence 1436-1445.Mary was a free woman because in the source ...
- To see as God sees (25 Mar 07)
Our eyes have grown accustomed either to looking at the world over our shoulder or toward the future and we've lost some of our Anglican ability to look in both ...
- Fulfilling their solemn duty (24 Mar 07)
The communiqué agreed by the meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion at their recent meeting in Dar-es-Salaam sought to impose on the (American) Episcopal Church a scheme for ...
- Humility is critical (12 Mar 07)
"It is not necessary . . . for anyone to be a member of any party faction or movement to be authentically Anglican nor is it necessary for any Anglican ...
- The virtue of doubt (04 Mar 07)
Dr Susan Maushart Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Media Society and Culture at Curtin University writing in a column in the Weekend Australian Magazine 24-25 February 2007During the ...
- My place is to tell all that I meet (04 Mar 07)
Billy Thorpe died from a heart attack in Sydney on 28th February 2007 my birthday. At age 60 he was one year older than me. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs ...
- Not to be wanted and not necessary (03 Mar 07)
On 23 February the Church Times asked in its leader "A new Communion: is it wanted?" My answer is simply "No." It is not to be wanted and not necessary. ...
- The other 97 per cent (20 Feb 07)
Q. What message is this sending to people in the pews who are tired of this . . . what would you say is the end goal? A. The end ...
- Catholic not Roman (19 Feb 07)
Ruth Gledhill writes in The Times 19 Feb 07 of "Radical proposals to reunite Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope" set out in Growing ...
- What is it that opens our eyes? (19 Feb 07)
I attended the consecration of my friend the Rt Revd Dr Stephen Pickard as Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide. It was also the celebration of the Feast of ...
- Divorce at the table (14 Feb 07)
Ruth Gledhill argues in the Times Online (14 Feb 07) that "The primates of the Anglican Communion may wish to consider the benefits of schism. . . . There are ...
- Truth enacted and lived (11 Feb 07)
Pieces like this by Don Cupitt (fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge) published in The Guardian (3 Feb 07) are intriguing but also frustrating. For the ordinary non-philosopher like me it's ...
- To talk about life (10 Feb 07)
The Rt Revd Katherine Jefferts Schiori Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church of the USA is the subject of a feature article by Cathy Lynn Grossman in USA Today (4 ...
- Jesus loves who? (06 Feb 07)
Think about it. Carefully. Story here here and here. ...
- There is nothing which the church needs more (04 Feb 07)
It is one of the supreme achievements of Jesus that he can enable the most diverse people to live together without in the least losing their own personalities or qualities. ...
- Adviser of the common good (04 Feb 07)
Along with at least 30 others from Canberra on Saturday I was in Adelaide to attend the consecration in St. Peter's Cathedral of Dr Stephen Pickard as Assistant Bishop in ...
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