ACL Synod Dinner bookings now open
The 2008 ACL Synod Dinner is set for Monday 13th October – in the Chapter House of St. Andrew’s Cathedral.
The dinner is open to all Synod members, all ACL members, and others who would like to hear about ‘GAFCON – the inside story’. Allison Street and Bishop Glenn Davies – members of the Sydney team at GAFCON – will be sharing on what really happened at this crucial Anglican meeting.
Tickets only $15 each. Pay at the door, but bookings essential.
Download your invitation for details on how to reply – a 265kb PDF file.
Another church departs TEC
More than 300 members, 90% of the congregation of St. John’s Episcopal Church in New Braunfels, have left The Episcopal Church citing the church’s failure to uphold the authority of Holy Scripture – and recent sexual innovations including the consecration of an openly homosexual priest to the episcopacy.…
– Full report from VirtueOnline. (Photo: St. John’s church.)
Carson on works of mercy
In many parts of the evangelical world, one hears a new debate—or, more precisely, new chapters in an old debate—regarding the precise place that ‘deeds of mercy’ ought to have in Christian witness. … the debate between those Christians who say that we should primarily be about the business of heralding the gospel and planting churches, and those who say that our responsibility as Christians extends to the relief of oppression, suffering, and poverty in all their forms. …
– In the light of the TEC/CofE focus on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, Don Carson’s editorial in the current issue of Themelios is especially worth reading. (hat tip Justin Taylor.)
Bishop Nazir-Ali on Duncan and TEC
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali on Bishop Bob Duncan and TEC –
“The first thing is to express huge admiration for Bishop Bob, because for so many years he has borne the brunt of the anger of those who want to make changes in The Episcopal Church. He has stayed loyally within that Church.
I have quite often watched him in the American house of bishops or general convention, taking flak. So given all of that, I am very sad and very shocked that he’s been treated in this way.
Quite a few American bishops had come to Lambeth, knowing that nothing would change afterwards. I do not think we can take seriously what they agreed at Lambeth. This is of a piece with other meetings where they have been present, have agreed things and where nothing has happened afterwards.
This does show that a structural solution is needed for the orthodox in the American church. There must be immediate relief. No talk about panels doing things in the future. We need, they need more importantly, immediate relief from this kind of action taken against them.”
– from an article by Ruth Gledhill at TimesOnline. (Photo: Joy Gwaltney)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…