St Clair Anglican celebrates 25 years
St. Clair Anglican Church has come a long way since its first service was held in the lounge room of its minister’s home on September 25, 1983.
The Archbishop of Sydney, Reverend Dr Peter Jensen, will be among the guests who will celebrate the church’s 25th anniversary this coming Sunday, September 21. …
– Report from the St. Mary’s – Mt. Druitt Star.
See also the church website. (Photo: St Clair Anglican.)
Latest North West Network available
The newest issue of North West Network – the magazine of the Diocese of North West Australia – is now available. It includes reflections on GAFCON as well as the latest on gospel ministry in the North West.
It’s a good resource to help you pray for our brothers and sisters in the largest diocese (by area!) in the Anglican Communion. 500kb PDF (direct link).
Prayers requested for Bishop Bob Duncan ahead of TEC HoB meeting
“Bishop Don [Harvey – Anglican Network in Canada] is asking for special prayer this week – and particularly on Thursday – for Bishop Bob Duncan, bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and leader of the Common Cause Partnership, for his diocese and for the Episcopal Church (TEC) house of bishops.
As anticipated, TEC Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori has written TEC bishops informing them of her plan to have Bishop Duncan deposed at their meeting on Thursday of this week (Sept 18) in Salt Lake City. She will be charging Bishop Duncan with abandoning the communion of the church.…”
– from Anglican Essentials Canada. (Photo: Bishop Don Harvey of the Anglican Network in Canada at St Mary of the Incarnation, Metchosin.)
Peter Jensen confounding expectations
“Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, has an image problem.
His reputation among many secular Australians – those who have heard of him at all – is of a stuffy, hidebound old churchman. Among self-styled progressives, including some from our more liberal churches, his name is synonymous with reactionary religious cant.
These lazy and unfair misconceptions say much more about 21st-century Australia than about Jensen. But for public figures, image is important. I must confess that in 2005 I paid insufficient attention to Jensen’s Boyer Lectures, which have been republished here with ‘minor updates and adaptations’.
The Future of Jesus is not the book I expected it to be.…”
– Roy Williams reviewed Archbishop Peter Jensen’s The Future of Jesus in Saturday’s Australian.
(The book is available from Matthias Media.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…