Learning from a Liberal mistake

Charles Raven has written a characteristically insightful article on the latest happenings in the Anglican Communion:

“the orthodox should not be in a hurry to draw the simplistic conclusion that my enemy’s enemy must be my friend…”

Learning from a Liberal mistake

As GAFCON was launched in Jerusalem last year, Archbishop Peter Jensen spoke of the ‘extraordinary strategic blunder’ by the Episcopal Church of the United States in consecrating a practising homosexual, Gene Robinson, as a bishop in 2003 which awoke the “sleeping giant that is evangelical Anglicanism”.

Now liberals have committed a second strategic blunder. Not so much the emergence of partnered lesbian Mary Glasspool as suffragan bishop elect by the Diocese of Los Angeles – such a move was entirely predictable after this year’s General Convention rejected Rowan Williams call for ‘gracious restraint – but their very public hostility towards Dr Williams following his rather cool and disapproving response.   Read more

12 Days of Christmas

CPX ChristmasEach day, for twelve days, the Centre for Public Christianity is releasing a short video on a Christmas-related theme.

“There’s a mixture of vox pops drawing on the public’s attitudes to the meaning of Christmas, interviews, book reviews, and brief discussions on the historical and philosophical questions surrounding the birth of Jesus.”

See them (as they are released) here and consider how you might use them.

Presbyterian propectus online

PTC Prospectus - PDF file downloadThe prospectus for the Presbyterian Theological Centre in Sydney is now online for any who may be interested.