GAFCON explains their new logo
Ahead of the Global Anglican Future Pilgrimage and Conference next month, the organisers have adopted a new logo – Read more
Denominations back Virginia Diocese
A half-dozen national Protestant denominations are supporting the Episcopal Church in a multimillion-dollar Virginia property dispute, saying a state law at the heart of the case could threaten them, too. …
– See the full story from The Washington Post.
(Truro Church is the largest of the churches involved.)
Adrian Warnock interviews John Piper
If you enjoyed watching Adrian Warnock’s interview with Don Carson at the New Word Alive conference in Wales, take the time to watch his interview with John Piper.
Among other things, Piper speaks on passion in preaching, humility – and whose sermons he listens to on his iPod.
The interview is presented in four parts (on YouTube) –
1.) John Piper on New Word Alive and Spring Harvest
2.) John Piper on Passionate Preaching
3.) John Piper and Prayer and Bible Study
4.) John Piper on the Preachers he listens to – and how he became a Pastor.
Each segment runs for 7 – 10 minutes. Worth watching.
Mike Ovey to deliver 2008 MTC Lectures
Annual Moore College Lectures 2008
5 –14 August 2008
The Rev Dr Michael Ovey, Principal, Oak Hill College London, will be speaking on the topic of Repentance.
To learn more, see the Moore College website. PDF brochure here.
First Australian woman bishop consecrated
Australia’s first woman bishop was consecrated in Perth tonight amid lingering controversy over her appointment.
Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy, 51, became Bishop Kaye Goldsworthy at a ceremony conducted by the Australian Anglican primate, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, in Perth’s St George’s Cathedral. …
– report from The West Australian. (Photo: Diocese of Perth.)
When the appointment was first announced, ACL President Dr. Mark Thompson released this statement.
Archbishop Mouneer Anis to go to Lambeth
Dr. Mouneer Anis, Bishop of Egypt with North Africa, has written to explain why he is going to Lambeth –
“I count it a great honour to have been invited to GAFCON.
I appreciate the fact that GAFCON provides an important meeting place for leaders from the South and from the North. I very much understand the frustrations as well as the hopes that led to the organisation of this conference. … I am sorry that I will not be able to be with you at your Conference but I assure you that you will be in my prayers. …
God has spoken to me through the Book of Jonah. So I decided not to withdraw but to go [to Lambeth] and speak the truth, and leave the rest to God. …”
Read the letter at VirtueOnline. (Photo: Episcopal News Service.)
Presiding Bishop’s ‘eyes and ears’ to be at GAFCON?
“Bishop Robert O’Neill of Colorado has agreed to serve as the eyes and ears of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori during the upcoming Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) next month in Jerusalem.
Bishop Jefferts Schori announced during an internet press conference May 20 that Bishop O’Neill would be receiving hospitality during the invitation-only conference of traditionalist Anglican leaders from Bishop Suheil Dawani of Jerusalem. Invitations to the conference for bishops of The Episcopal Church were issued through Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh. Bishop Duncan is moderator of the Anglican Communion Network.
Although the conference is being held in his diocese, Bishop Dawani is not a member of the GAFCON organizing committee.”
– from The Living Church. The press conference may be seen here.
(Washington-based Anglican blogger BabyBlue has posted her take on the press conference here.)
Post-GAFCON briefing in London
In the wake of GAFCON, a ‘briefing for Incumbents and local Church Leaders’ is being held on July 1st at All Souls, Langham Place in London.
Special guest speakers will be Archbishop Henry Orombi, Archbishop Greg Venables, Archbishop Peter Jensen and Dr Jim Packer.
Details from Anglican Mainstream.
Book Review – In the Eye of the Storm
“Once the Bible’s authority has been discarded, we can redraw the faith as we see fit. And this, unfortunately, is precisely what Robinson does. For example, he appears to draw much of his justification for homosexuality from extra-biblical revelation, including a vision experienced by John Fortunato. Never minding what Scripture says, Fortunato and Robinson claim that visions from God trump the revelation of Scripture. …”
– Tim Challies helpfully reviews Gene Robinson’s much-hyped book “In the Eye of the Storm”.
GAFCON programme announced
An outline of the programme for the Jerusalem component of GAFCON has been released.
It includes expositions on Genesis 12 (The Promise of God), Exodus 24 (The Presence of God), 2 Samuel 1–17 (The King of God), Luke 24 (The Son of God) and Revelation 21 (The Throne of God).
Further details of the programme are expected soon – on the GAFCON website.
Mugabe police target Anglican churches
Armed riot police prevented Harare’s beleagured Anglican congregations from worshipping in their churches on Sunday in defiance of a supreme court order.
Police moved into the gardens of Anglican churches around the city from early morning and senior officers telephoned priests and warned them not to try and hold services yesterday. …
– Report from the UK Telegraph. (Graphic: Anglican Communion Office.)
New Dean for Trinity School for Ministry
The Trinity School for Ministry Board of Trustees announced today that the Rev. Dr. Justyn Terry has accepted an enthusiastic call by the board to become the new Dean and President, succeeding the Rt. Rev. Dr. John H. Rodgers, Trinity’s second Dean and President, who left retirement to serve as Interim Dean/President beginning in August 2007.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees the Rev. Canon David Roseberry said, “The Lord has blessed us indeed, as Justyn will assume the awesome responsibility of Trinity’s vital role as a bearer of an orthodox evangelical witness in North America.” …
– from Trinity School for Ministry in Pennsylvania – one of the very few conservative Anglican seminaries in North America.
Brian McLaren ‘invited to participate’ at Lambeth
Brian McLaren, one of the leaders of the emerging church movement, has now confirmed that he has been “invited to participate in the Lambeth Conference” to speak on “evangelism/disciple-making”.
Matt Kennedy, who broke the news at Stand Firm, comments,
We ought not be naive with regard to Brian McLaren’s invitation to Lambeth… He will be there to tell the assembled bishops just how hazy, foggy, undefined, and ultimately, unresolvable the question of homosexual behaviour really is and why nothing ought to be done until at least 2016.
For some responses to McLaren’s theology, see Mark Dever’s review of Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian – at IX Marks – and Al Mohler’s 2005 article What Should We Think of the Emerging Church? part 2. (Photo: brianmclaren.net.)
Archbishop of Uganda responds
The Archbishop of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, has responded to this letter from TEC Presiding Bishop, Katherine Jefferts Schori, accusing him of an “unwarranted incursion into The Episcopal Church”.
“I am not visiting a church in the Diocese of Georgia. …
Your selective quoting of the Windsor Report is stunning in its arrogance and condescension. …
You and your House of Bishops rejected outright the Pastoral Scheme painstakingly devised in Dar es Salaam, and to which you agreed. You have, therefore, left us no choice but to continue to respond to the cries of God’s faithful people in America for episcopal oversight that upholds and promotes historic, biblical Anglicanism. …”
Read Archbishop Orombi’s full letter below – Read more
Inaugural Queen’s Birthday Convention
St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney is hosting the inaugural Queen’s Birthday Convention on Monday June 9th.
It’s the sequel to this year’s Australia Day Convention in which Phillip Jensen expounded Mark 1–8. The series will conclude with talks on Mark 9–16.
You can register – and also hear and see the last talk (on Mark 8) from the Australia Day Convention – at the QBC website.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…