San Joaquin website disappears
Visitors to www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org – the website of the (Southern Cone) Diocese of San Joaquin – are now magically redirected to the new website for the reconstituted TEC diocese, at www.diosanjoaquin.org.
The Society of Archbishop Justus are the custodians of www.anglican.org, of which www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org is a subdomain.
(This underscores the value of owning your domain.)
Concerning Preaching
Could it be that the devil considers the best strategy to seduce evangelicals away from the power of true biblical proclamation is actually to focus their attention and energies on preaching more and more?
– William Philip, now Minister at The Tron in central Glasgow, wrote this paper for the Proclamation Trust when he was their Director of Ministry.
Read the paper here – and see what other resources Proc Trust has on offer.
‘San Joaquin Episcopalians celebrate’
A jubilant celebration of Holy Eucharist concluded the March 29 special convention in the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin and made official Bishop Jerry Lamb’s role as provisional bishop. …
– report from Episcopal Life. (Photo: Episcopal Life Online.)
The Reason for God – Tim Keller
Why does God allow suffering in the world?
How could a loving God send people to Hell?
Why isn’t Christianity more inclusive?
How can one religion be ‘right’ and the others ‘wrong’?
Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced doubts skeptics bring to his church as well as the most important reasons for faith. In his new book, The Reason for God, he addresses each.
See the book’s website at www.thereasonforgod.com.
An Inconvenient Truth: Ecclesial Warming Ahead
Much of the news this week centers on the recent actions of The Episcopal Church House of Bishops and the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in relation to a vote to depose retired bishop William Cox and former TEC bishop John-David Schofield. Dovetailing into these legally questionable depositions are two subsequent issues: the fact that the deposition notice for Bishop Cox misstates his title and the diocese he retired from; and the calling for a Special Convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin to elect a new bishop. …
… KJS and her Chancellor DBB are functioning as police, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner, and most of the other TEC bishops fall in dutifully behind them. …
The latest weekly letter from AAC President, Bishop David Anderson – via Anglican Mainstream. (Photo: The Common Cause Partnership.)
Episcopal confusion in San Joaquin
“In December of 2007, the convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin voted to remove any constitutional link between itself and the Episcopal Church and affiliate instead with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone… It was not, however, a clean break. Some seven of the diocese’s 47 congregations clearly elected – with no particular surprises here – to remain connected to TEC and therefore sever their relationship with Bishop Schofield and the departing/departed convention. …”
– Commentary in the Midwest Conservative Journal over confusing legal questions around the ‘Special Convention’ to be convened in the Diocese of San Joaquin today by the Presiding Bishop.
See also the website of the ‘reconstituted’ TEC Diocese of San Joaquin.
Diocese of South Carolina strongly protests
“Dear Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori:
We, as the Standing Committee and Bishop of South Carolina, write this letter to strongly protest what we recognize as a failure to follow the Canons of our Episcopal Church in the recent depositions of Bishops Schofield and Cox. …
we must respectfully refuse to recognize the depositions, and we will not recognize any new bishop who may be elected to replace Bishop Schofield, unless and until the canons are followed.”
– via TitusOneNine.
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor
I must admit, once I started Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor, I could barely put it down. This has to be one of the most challenging and yet encouraging books I have read in quite some time.
As far as biographies go, this one was unlike any other biography I have ever read. …
Read this review of Don Carson’s book about his Dad.