A rival Global South movement?
“A rival Global South movement is being set up here in Canterbury in an attempt to divide and conquer the Global South movement. A Lambeth compliant ‘Communion Partners’ movement is being encouraged in an effort to isolate mainstream evangelical and Anglo-Catholics who number 40 million of the 55 million church-going Anglicans throughout the world. …”
– David Virtue wonders where this might lead.
Lambeth Saturday press conference
Matt Kennedy from Stand Firm live blogs from today’s Lambeth press conference and shows there is some confusion about the definition of being in the Anglican Communion …
– at Stand Firm.
Who’s a traditionalist?
I am sick of being placed in the category of “traditionalist”.
Here are some examples, all from the same news article:
“persecuting clergy who wanted to stick to a traditionalist line”;
“distorting traditional Anglican beliefs”;
“how much influence a powerful traditionalist lobby could have inside the Communion”.
Tradition has nothing to do with it; the word has become the latest euphemism for “Christian”.
– Our friends at the Anglican Essentials Canada blog have articulated what others have been thinking.
Faith healer Todd Bentley called a fraud, false teacher
A new faith healer is making headlines for his claims of supernatural powers, but conservative evangelical leaders warn that Todd Bentley is a fraud and a false teacher.
Bentley, leader of a revival that began in Lakeland, Fla., this spring, is known for his multiple body piercings and tattoos, his violent healing techniques, his claims of angelic visions and “holy” laughter and “holy” vibrating shakes. He even claims to have raised dozens of people from the dead. …
– A helpful report from Baptist Press.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…