Judge: Property is Episcopalians’
“The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin has prevailed in its initial lawsuit against Anglican Bishop John-David Schofield, who was the first in the nation to lead his diocese away from the Episcopal Church over the interpretation of Scripture and the 2004 ordination of an openly gay bishop.
Thursday, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Adolfo Corona ruled that Bishop Jerry Lamb, not Schofield, is the one true Episcopal bishop of the diocese. …”
– from the Modesto Bee in California.
(Photo: Bishop Jerry Lamb greets TEC Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori – Episcopal Life Online.)
Carson on sermon preparation
Colin Adams at Unashamed Workman points us to an excellent talk given by Don Carson at the Katoomba Centenary Preaching Conference at SMBC in 2003.
Colin has also provided an outline with time markers to the 65MB mp3 file of the talk.
Archbishop Rowan and TEC
“The Archbishop of Canterbury has responded to The Episcopal Church’s statements on gay consecrations and same-sex blessings. He doesn’t see what happened at GenCon09 as schism, or the end of the Communion, but as pointing the way to a two-tier communion of covenanted and non-covenanted provinces.…”
– On her blog, Ruth Gledhill of Times Online writes about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s reaction to the TEC General Convention.
(Photo: Archbishop of Canterbury’s website.)
Moore College Lectures 2009
Dr Ashley Null is delivering this year’s Moore College Lectures. His topic?: Renewing the Power to Love: Repentance in Classical Anglicanism.
Two evening lectures at 8:00pm
Tuesday 4 August: Thomas Cranmer
Thursday 6 August: Richard HookerThree morning lectures at 10:15am
Friday 7 August: William Perkins
Tuesday 11 August: Lancelot Andrewes
Thursday 13 August: John Donne
Details from the Moore College website.
Alan Kerr
“John Stott has saluted Melbourne Anglican Alan Kerr AM with these words, ‘Faithful husband and father, loyal churchman and champion of the laity. Committed to mission and the gospel.’…”
– Anglican Media Melbourne reports on the death of Melbourne Anglican Alan Kerr.
The Church and Schism — Packer at Oak Hill
Dr J I Packer spoke on “The Church and Schism” at the Oak Hill 2009 School of Theology in London.
Thanks to Oak Hill, you can read or watch the lecture here.
Worth watching!
Ministry Today — New Opportunities
William Taylor, Mark Dever and Phillip Jensen are speaking on ‘Ministry Today – New Opportunities’ at the Ministry Intensive planned for August 17 and 18 in Sydney.
Open Letter to Anglican Communion
The ACNA’s Archbishop Robert Duncan has written this Open Letter to the Anglican Communion –
“Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
There are times in the history of God’s people when the prevailing values and behaviors of those then in control of rival cities symbolizes a choice to be made by all of God’s people. For Anglicans such a moment has certainly arrived. The cities symbolizing the present choice are Bedford, Texas, and Anaheim, California. In the last month, the contrasting behaviors and values of the religious leaders who met in these two small cities made each a symbol of Anglicanism’s inescapable choice. …”
– read it all here on the Diocese of Pittsburgh website (PDF file).
Bible overview — from John Richardson
John Richardson of the Ugley Vicar is posting online audio files of his Bible overview talks. The first three are now online –
Part 1. (Genesis to Exodus)
Part 2. (Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy)
Part 3. (Joshua — 2 Kings)