Tea or Tanks on the Lambeth Palace Lawn?
“This week, seven ‘Communion Partner’ bishops from The Episcopal Church made a private visit to the Archbishop of Canterbury. We might well imagine them enjoying a cup of tea in the Lambeth Palace gardens and little more imagination is needed to guess the reason for their call…”
– Charles Raven’s latest piece on events in the Anglican Communion may be found at SPREAD.
Related: Canterbury hosts seven Episcopal bishops for private meeting – from EpiscopalLifeOnline.
FCA launched in South Africa
“Seventy Anglican clergy and laity are today (September 3) attending the launch of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (South Africa) at St John’s Church in Port Elizabeth…
– from David MacGregor in Port Elizabeth.
Moralism is not the gospel
“Far too many believers and their churches succumb to the logic of moralism and reduce the Gospel to a message of moral improvement. In other words, we communicate to lost persons the message that what God desires for them and demands of them is to get their lives straight.…”
– Albert Mohler writes on the very real danger of preaching a false gospel.
Australian marriage statistics
On Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a selection of data on marriages and divorces in Australia. While only highlighting a limited range of data, it’s a reminder of some of the ways in which our culture is changing.
See Crikey.com.au. (h/t/ Malcolm Purvis.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…