Prayer urged for Sudan

Prayer is urged for Sudan, with a crucial referendum taking place today. Details from SydneyAnglicans.net.

ELCA proposes tougher rules for departing congregations

“According to the Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Renewal), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) leaders are proposing new rules that will make it harder for congregations to leave the denomination.

The changes are proposed as nearly 300 congregations have completed current departure requirements, and another 140 congregations have begun the process. These congregations represent a loss of 200,000 ELCA members…”

– Story from The Layman Online (h/t AAC.)

Related:
Lutheran CORE November 2010 newsletter (PDF file).
ELCA documents on human sexuality.

Photo: ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, from the ELCA website.

Petition to support B&B owners in Cornwall

While the petition being organised is for UK citizens only, it’s good to be aware of this case involving a Christian couple who run a Bed & Breakfast in Cornwall.

The Christian Institute has the background on their website – including this one page fact sheet (pdf).

And here’s a story from Mail Online (8th Dec 2010).

For UK readers, the petition, calling the Prime Minister to repeal or amend the UK’s the Sexual Orientation Regulations, may be seen here.

‘Marriage of 2 lesbian Episcopal priests adds new twist to gay issues’

“Episcopalians here and across the country are already divided over whether to elect gay bishops and allow their priests to perform same-sex weddings. Now they have another issue to discuss: The marriage of two lesbians who are high-level Episcopal priests in Massachusetts.

In a wedding that appears to be the first of its kind in the U.S. – at least in the Episcopal Church – former Plymouth priest the Rev. Mally Lloyd married the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, on New Year’s Day.”

– report from The Patriot Ledger in Boston.

Related: “Abortion is a blessing”. (Photo: Episcopal Divinity School.)

‘Communion for Anglican bishops becoming Catholics’

“Three Anglican bishops who are converting to Roman Catholicism have taken holy communion at Westminster Cathedral, with three ex-Anglican nuns…”

– Report from BBC News.

Peter Jensen’s 2010 Christmas message

See Archbishop Peter Jensen’s 2010 Christmas message – 90 second video. Text here.

“Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, came to dwell among us, and save us from our failures.”

9Marks end of year video

Mark Dever and Matt Schmucker report on what 9Marks has been up in 2010.

Bishop Don Harvey’s Christmas message

Bishop Don Harvey, Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada, shares his Christmas message for 2010:

“The good news of this great gift cannot be suppressed. We feel compelled to share it with a world of people who have wandered in so many sad directions, never successfully finding what they seek…

Each of us is entrusted with taking a part in seeing that ‘this Saviour who is Christ the Lord’ is made known to others as indeed He is made known to us.”

What’s left of Christmas?

What’s left of Christmas if you leave out Jesus coming to save men and women from sin and judgment? Not much.

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada demonstrate.

Abp of Melbourne’s Christmas message

Archbishop Philip Freier’s Christmas message in online in video form at the Diocese of Melbourne website.

Australian Church Record — December 2010 — now online

The latest edition of The Australian Church Record is now available as a free download from their website.

From the Editorial:

“At the present time, the ever-optimistic of our early baby boomer brethren can still be heard to say that this is a time of unprecedented change, as if what is going on still fits within the boomer rhetoric that any change is a good change. But what we are looking at right now is not change at all. It is collapse.

What we are witnessing is the death of a failed dream. What will come is a whole new world. As it rises from the ashes of the sixties ‘revolution against everything’, the gospel needs to be a part of the reconstruction.”

‘Christmas 2.0’ (updated)

Apparently created to showcase the services of a Portuguese web-design company, this three minute viral video could have several uses this Christmas! See it on YouTube.

Also available in Portuguese(!).

(h/t Bishop John Harrower.)

And here’s another ‘social networking’ version of the Christmas story – but with a more reflective tone – linked by Steve Kryger at Communicate Jesus.

‘It is the moment I was really reborn’

“On Sunday 31st of October six young adults joyfully declared their faith before the congregation of Holy Trinity and were baptised. It was a time of much rejoicing…”

– A brief but encouraging report from Holy Trinity Adelaide – in the Diocese of Adelaide’s Guardian for December 2010. (3MB PDF.)

Oak Hill College Commentary magazine Winter 2010-11

David Peterson will be heading back to Oak Hill College in London to give the annual School of Theology lectures in May. That’s just some of the news in Oak Hill’s latest Commentary magazine for Winter 2010/2011.

Lots of great articles. Download your copy – a 6MB PDF file – from the College website.

BBC Radio 4 to devote day of reading of King James Bible

“The Daily Telegraph reports that the BBC will devote nearly a whole day of Radio 4 to readings from the King James Bible to mark the 400th anniversary of its publication…”

– Report from EV News.

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