Letter to Williams: Suspend TEC and recognise Common Cause
“I write, therefore, to ask that you take immediate action in suspending the Episcopal Church from any further participation in activities of the Anglican Communion and in calling a meeting of the Primates to give formal recognition to a new Province in North America…”
– Bishop Colin Bazley, former Primate of the Southern Cone, writes to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Read his open letter at Anglican Mainstream. (Photo: Lambeth Conference media.)
Why it’s a great day to be a traditional Anglican
“Barely two months after lots of indabaing with 617 fellow Anglican Communion bishops… Katherine Jefferts Schori and her advisors had two choices. They could violate the canons flagrantly and hang ’em high now, further shattering TEC’s global reputation… or they could attempt to follow the canons scrupulously. They chose the former…”
– Sarah Hey writes at Stand Firm. (Photo: ENS.)
New website in support of Bishop Duncan
“The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh’s communications team has created this website for the purpose of posting and sharing comments in support of Bishop Robert Duncan and The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh in light of his purported deposition by The Episcopal Church on September 18.
Posted below are several public announcements of support from leaders throughout global Anglicanism.”
– See the latest statements of support at support-duncan.blogspot.com.
Support for Bishop Duncan flows in
From Archbishop Mouneer Anis:
…It is with great joy that I welcome you alongside the ranks of St. Athanasius who, as Bishop of Alexandria, was deposed and exiled from his see. St. Athanasius did not waver and stood firm. History proved that his stance for orthodoxy was not in vain. I trust it will do the same for you! So please count it as honor my brother.
I don’t know what to call it, a tragedy or comedy, for the faithful to be disciplined by those who tear the fabric of our Anglican Communion. …
– Read the full letter from Archbishop Mouneer Anis – along with messages Archbishop Peter Jensen and Archbishop Robinson Cavalcanti – at the Diocese of Pittsburgh website.
John Woodhouse on OT Narrative
Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds has this for us –
If you want to learn how to read/preach OT narrative, John Woodhouse (Principal of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia) is an excellent guide.
If you want to learn by watching him do it, check out his expository commentary on 1 Samuel.
If you want to learn by hearing him teach on it, check out the following six one-hour lectures on OT narrative delivered for the Charles Simeon Trust:
Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6. (Photo: Moore College)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…