Visitation Scheduled for San Joaquin Provisional Bishop Nominee
A single candidate chosen to be the provisional Bishop of San Joaquin will participate in a two-day walkabout visitation to the diocese immediately after the House of Bishops’ meeting concludes at Camp Allen in Texas on March 12. … Read more
‘Time to get our heads above the parapet’
Anglican Mainstream is reporting a letter to the Editor of the Church of England Newspaper from a senior layman, Professor Glynn Harrison of the University of Bristol –
“Sir,
The news that Dr Jim Packer has been served with a ‘notice of presumption of Abandonment of the Exercise of Ministry’ by the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada is a significant moment for ‘ordinary’ evangelicals in the Church of England. Read more
Same-sex dispute hovers over bishop vote
Allison Kydd is concerned delegates who will elect the 10th Anglican Bishop of Edmonton on Saturday don’t know where the nominees stand on same-sex blessings.
Kydd said she’s disappointed an Episcopal search committee didn’t press the seven nominees on their positions on an issue that’s caused a major rift in the church. …
At the time of her election, many assumed [the previous bishop, Victoria] Matthews, raised and educated in Toronto, was on the ‘liberal’ side of the spectrum because she was a woman, Kydd said, and it was such a new thing to have a woman as a candidate.
Kydd said that wasn’t the case, and Matthews, who went on to be nominated twice as primate or national leader, pulled the church in a more conservative direction. …
Full report from The Edmonton Journal.
John Stott’s ‘Final Public Address’
Though delivered last July at the Keswick Convention, many may not have read Dr. John Stott’s final public address before his retirement from public ministry at the age of 86.
His topic? ‘The model – becoming more like Christ’.
Read the text of his sermon from the Langham Partnership’s website.
Background story here. (Photo: Langham Partnership.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…