John Woodhouse to retire from Moore College in 2013
Posted on May 16, 2012
Filed under Sydney Diocese
Diocese of Sydney media release, 16 May 2012:
The Archbishop of Sydney, who is the President of the Moore Theological College Governing Board, has announced that the principal, Dr John Woodhouse, will retire from the position early next year.
Dr Woodhouse would have reached retirement age at the start of 2014, but has told the Board that after careful deliberation, he believed the time had come for him to plan to step aside from the role. Read more
Greg Goswell to move to PTC Sydney
Posted on May 16, 2012
Filed under News
Moore College graduate Greg Goswell will return to Sydney (from Melbourne) to lecture in Old Testament at the Presbyterian Theological Centre at Burwood in 2013. News here.
Prayers for Defence ministry
Posted on May 16, 2012
Filed under Australia, Resources
Our friends who minister to Australia’s Defence personnel would be very glad of your prayers on a regular basis.
There’s the current Prayer Diary (pdf) and other prayer resources at this link.
Falls Anglican Church Virginia has last Sunday at property
Posted on May 15, 2012
Filed under Anglican Communion
“A departing Anglican congregation held its final services at a Virginia church property that they lost to The Episcopal Church in a years-long court battle.
The Falls Church Anglican, a congregation that broke away from the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia years ago over the increasingly liberal theology of the denomination, held two services on Sunday, leaving the property to a much smaller Episcopal congregation…”
– story from Christian Post. Photo: Falls Church.
Simple Bible reading advice
Posted on May 15, 2012
Filed under Resources
“Wherever you settle on this question, be sure to ignore headings as much as possible. In fact, the best exegesis experience I ever had in the gospel of Mark was using a text without headings, paragraphs, or verses. Just 40 pages of a block of text with page and line numbers. A wonderful teaching tool I used for years and highly recommend.”
– In a discussion about ‘the spirituals’ in 1 Corinthians 12, Bill Mounce offers this advice for reading the Scriptures.
New West Synod moves to lift same sex blessing ‘partial moratorium’
Posted on May 13, 2012
Filed under Anglican Communion
From a report on the Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster, which concluded yesterday –
“Of interest to many was the passing of Motion #1 on the afternoon of May 12th by a substantial majority of Synod.
In this motion, Synod requested that the Bishop lift the partial moratorium that has been in place since 2005 and authorize priests of the Diocese of New Westminster to bless the civil marriages of gay and lesbian couples in those parishes that support this pastoral act. …
Bishop Michael responded by saying that he will think about this decision and that he plans to confer with many members of the diocese…”
– from the New Westminster website. (Photo: Dioc. New Westminster. h/t Anglican Essentials Canada blog.)
Related: The Anglican Debacle: Roots and Patterns by Dr Mark Thompson, 2008.
Same-Sex Marriage ‘makes a lot of sense’
Posted on May 13, 2012
Filed under Opinion
“Same-sex marriage makes sense if you assume that the individual is the center of the universe, that God—if he exists—is there to make us happy, and that our choices are not grounded in a nature created by God but in arbitrary self-construction…”
– Michael Horton’s piece at The White Horse Inn is well worth reading. (h/t Tim Challies.)
Moore College Open Nights and Open Weeks
Posted on May 13, 2012
Filed under Sydney Diocese
Moore Theological College in Newtown is holding an Open Week 21-25 May, and an Open Night on Monday 28 May, with others later in the year.
UK Advertising Standards Authority investigates blogger
Posted on May 12, 2012
Filed under Church of England
This from well-known UK blogger “Archbishop Cranmer” –
“Apparently there have been a number of complaints about one of the advertisements His Grace carried on behalf of the Coalition for Marriage. He has been sent all manner of official papers, formal documentation and threatening notices which demand answers to sundry questions by a certain deadline. He is instructed by the ‘Investigations Executive’ of this inquisition to keep all this confidential…”