First Australian woman bishop consecrated
Australia’s first woman bishop was consecrated in Perth tonight amid lingering controversy over her appointment.
Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy, 51, became Bishop Kaye Goldsworthy at a ceremony conducted by the Australian Anglican primate, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, in Perth’s St George’s Cathedral. …
– report from The West Australian. (Photo: Diocese of Perth.)
When the appointment was first announced, ACL President Dr. Mark Thompson released this statement.
The sad legacy of Krister Stendahl
Krister Stendahl, former dean of the Harvard Divinity School, and one of the leading liberal theologians of the last century, died in Boston last month.
The New York Times published an obituary on April 16.
(Photo credit: James Solheim of the Episcopal News Service took this photo at the consecration of Gene Robinson in 2003. Bishop Krister Stendahl is seated immediately to the right of the then Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold.)
Archbishop Mouneer Anis to go to Lambeth
Dr. Mouneer Anis, Bishop of Egypt with North Africa, has written to explain why he is going to Lambeth –
“I count it a great honour to have been invited to GAFCON.
I appreciate the fact that GAFCON provides an important meeting place for leaders from the South and from the North. I very much understand the frustrations as well as the hopes that led to the organisation of this conference. … I am sorry that I will not be able to be with you at your Conference but I assure you that you will be in my prayers. …
God has spoken to me through the Book of Jonah. So I decided not to withdraw but to go [to Lambeth] and speak the truth, and leave the rest to God. …”
Read the letter at VirtueOnline. (Photo: Episcopal News Service.)
Overview of the teaching of Rowan Williams on Scripture and sexuality
David Phillips, General Secretary of Church Society, summarises a SPREAD report on the theology of Rowan Williams. It’s available as a PDF file and is also published in the current issue of CrossWay.
Read it here. See also this earlier Latimer Trust paper by Garry Williams entitled, “The Theology of Rowan Williams”.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…