‘Admit your sins to the Lord, priest tells gay judge’
“A senior minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man. Read more
Rio Grande church leaves
The Trustees and the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande were informed on Friday, April 4, 2008 that clergy and congregants of the mission Church of Ascension, Cloudcroft, New Mexico had been received into the Anglican Province of Uganda. … The current congregation will vacate the premises and re-locate within the week.…
Conversations were respectful, cordial and acknowledged respective positions.
– from the Diocese of Rio Grande. (Photo: Dio. Rio Grande.)
Liberal theology and theological education
President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Al Mohler, tells a cautionary tale of what can happen to formerly strong evangelical theological colleges –
“Andover Theological Seminary was indeed the first freestanding seminary in the United States … ‘started by orthodox Calvinists who fled Harvard after it embraced Unitarianism’. But then look at the fact that today one-fourth of the students enrolled in the school are Unitarian-Universalists. The school is also tied to the United Church of Christ, the nation’s most liberal mainline denomination. The school now represents the very beliefs its founders sought to oppose. …”
– from Al Mohler’s blog.