‘Conscience trampled by the regime’

Posted on February 19, 2011
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“[T]he Obama administration is now ready to use the coercive power of the state to force medical personnel to perform acts they consider to be morally wrong and unhealthy for their patients…”

– Al Mohler reports on new policies announced in the US just yesterday.

Preaching Christ from the Old Testament

Posted on February 19, 2011
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Justin Taylor draws attention to a project to draw together resources relating to preaching Christ in the Old Testament.

On the Gospel Coalition website, it includes featured resources from David Jackman, John Woodhouse, Tim Keller and Sinclair Ferguson.

Bruce Winter to retire as QTC Principal

Posted on February 18, 2011
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“After five years spearheading a dramatic reversal in fortunes of the Queensland Theological College (QTC), Rev Dr Bruce Winter will step down as principal, while continuing to have an active role in educating theological students as Director of the Institute for Early Christianity at Emmanuel College and in the honoured position of Research Professor at QTC…”

– press release (PDF) from the Queensland Theological College.

‘A not too subtle attempt to mislead’

Posted on February 17, 2011
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“The Presiding Bishop and her Executive Council are currently meeting in Fort Worth…

her appearance in Fort Worth was preceded by some unusual shenanigans which seem to have been designed only to mislead, demoralize or confuse the members of one of the larger parishes in Bishop Iker’s Fort Worth Diocese.”

– Lawyer A S Haley (the Anglican Curmudgeon) keeps his eye on TEC’s activity in Fort Worth.

‘Homosexual marriage and the registration of civil partnerships in churches’ in the UK

Posted on February 16, 2011
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Media release, via Reform, 16 February 2011 –

“Joint Statement by Affinity, The Christian Institute, Christian Concern, Reform and the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches

There has been speculation in the press about the Government’s proposals for civil partnerships to be registered in places of worship. There has also been speculation, and indeed confusion, over the separate issue of scrapping the definition of marriage in order to allow two people of the same sex to hold a marriage certificate.

Government proposals to allow civil partnerships in churches implement changes made in the 2010 Equality Act. However, there has been no announcement from the Government that it has any plans to introduce full same-sex marriage…”

– Read the full statement on the Reform website.

Griffith Thomas’ Principles of Theology – Introduction

Posted on February 16, 2011
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Church Society is continuing to post online sections from Griffith Thomas’ classic work, Principles of Theology. They’ve just added his Introduction. At Church Society.

Don Carson on the Church — at YEMA

Posted on February 14, 2011
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Don Carson spoke at the 2011 Yorkshire Evangelical Ministry Assembly two weeks ago. His topic? The Church.

The Yorkshire Gospel Partnership has graciously made the audio files available on their website. (h/t Unashamed Workman.)

Moravians in ‘full communion’ with TEC

Posted on February 12, 2011
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“With an evening Eucharist Feb. 10 that blended elements of the liturgical and musical practices of both traditions, representatives of the Episcopal Church and the two provinces of the Moravian Church in North America formally inaugurated a full-communion relationship between the denominations. …

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Moravian Provincial Elders Conference presidents, the Rev. Dr. Elizabeth D. Miller (Northern Province) and the Rev. David Guthrie (Southern Province) officiated at the service…”

– from The Episcopal News Service. (Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg.)

An Exposition of the Theses — 1

Posted on February 11, 2011
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“A number of people have suggested that, like Luther, I should expand on the theses I posted to help people think through the basis of a new reformation of the Anglican Communion. Luther’s Resolutiones disputationum de indulgentiarum virtute was published in 1518 and sought to explain the basis for each of the 95 theses. I have already risked mockery for being so presumptuous as to write the twelve theses I posted in January. Who do I think I am to suggest such a theological basis for the necessary change? But now do I dare go further and explain my own theses as Luther did?

I have decided it is worth doing, if for no other reason than the opportunity to clarify my own thinking and make it just a little more difficult for my words to be misunderstood…”

– Mark Thompson expands his thoughts at Theological Theology.

‘Suppressing the truth’

Posted on February 10, 2011
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In his latest video discussion with Anglican TV’s Kevin Kallsen, Bishop Gregory Venables points to Romans 1 as the key to understanding the ills of the Anglican Communion.

Another devastating analysis of the Dublin Primates’ meeting.

2011 DG Conference for Pastors

Posted on February 10, 2011
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Audio and video from the 2011 Desiring God Conference for Pastors is now available on the Desiring God website.

This year’s theme: The Powerful Life of the Praying Pastor.

‘Catholic church gives blessing to iPhone app’

Posted on February 9, 2011
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“The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession…”
– report from BBC News.

(These apps may be more helpful for you.)

ARCIC III — ‘an ecumenical farce’

Posted on February 8, 2011
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Former Anglo-Catholic priest, and now Roman Catholic writer (and author of What Will Happen to God?) William Oddie, writes about ARCIC III –

“The trouble with ARCIC always was (as a former Catholic member of it once explained to me) that on the Catholic side of the table you have a body of men (mostly bishops) who represent a more or less coherent view, being members of a Church which has established means of knowing and declaring what it believes.

On the Anglican side of the table you have a body of men (and it was only men, on both sides, in those days) the divisions between whom are just fundamental as, and sometimes a lot more fundamental than, those between any one of them and the Catholic representatives they faced: they all represented only themselves.”

– from The Catholic Herald (h/t Anglican Mainstream.)

To make ARCIC even more problematic for the Roman Catholic side, the Anglican Church of Canada’s Bishop Linda Nicholls has been appointed as an Anglican representative.

(Photo: Archbishop of Canterbury’s website.)