October 2010 ACR online

Posted on October 8, 2010 
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The October 2010 issue (number 1900) of The Australian Church Record is now online. It’s downloadable as a PDF file from their website.

Lots of thoughtful content, and an editorial sure to provoke discussion.

New CMS NSW General Secretary announced

Posted on October 8, 2010 
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CMS NSW General Secretary John Bales writes, “It is with great joy that we can announce that Malcolm Richards, who is at present serving in DR Congo with his wife Elizabeth, has accepted the unanimous invitation of the General Committee to fill the position of General Secretary in 2011”.

John continues, “Malcolm and Elizabeth are coming back to Australia for leave and Home Assignment at the end of 2010, and we anticipate that Malcolm will take up his new role in the first half of 2011’.

Please uphold in your prayers Malcolm and Elizabeth and CMS NSW in this time of change.

Euthanasia question needs wider discussion

Posted on October 8, 2010 
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“Australians are overwhelmingly in favour of euthanasia. Who can resist the will of the people? So goes the pro-death argument for this sweeping social change. A much quoted 2009 survey, commissioned by the pro-euthanasia group Dying with Dignity, reports 85 per cent support for the practice. As is always the case, support is more muted among the over-65s: the prospect of death, it turns out, does concentrate the mind…”

– Andrew Cameron writes this opinion-piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.

Yahoo, Yoga, and Yours Truly

Posted on October 8, 2010 
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“Well, you never know what a day holds. This morning, Yahoo put the Associated Press story about my article on yoga on its front page. The rest, as they say, is history. My mail servers are exhausted. Messages have been coming in at a rate of about a hundred an hour. The first lesson — count the cost when you talk about yoga. These people get bent out of shape fast…”

– Albert Mohler on the response to a recent article he wrote.

Desiring God 2010 National Conference audio online

Posted on October 5, 2010 
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The heading says it all. Here.

A Conservationist among Lumberjacks

Posted on October 4, 2010 
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“I have space to raise three concerns, and these briefly: the presiding bishop’s threat to our polity — litigious and constitutional; the revisions to the Title IV canons; and, finally, a passing word about inhibitions and depositions to solve our theological/spiritual crisis…”

– Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina writes in The Living Church about some of the radical changes in the way The Episcopal Church is being run. (h/t Anglican Mainstream.)

Advice for orthodox Primates

Posted on October 2, 2010 
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In his weekly message, Bishop David C. Anderson, President of the American Anglican Council, has some advice for the orthodox Primates, after the announcement of a meeting of the Anglican Communion Primates in January.

“If asked my opinion, I would strongly advise the orthodox Primates to 1) organize before the Primates’ meeting, and 2) attend and remove by force of numbers the Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal Church (not physically, but by either voting her off the “island,” or recessing to another room and not letting her in). The meeting is a place to gather and potentially to settle some of the issues that are pulling the Anglican Communion apart, and to begin to restore health to a most wonderful communion.”

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9Marks at Southeastern Seminary: Biblical Theology

Posted on September 30, 2010 
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Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds has posted links to videos of five 9Marks sessions recently given at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina. Details here.

(Bear in mind the videos are large files.)

‘Former strip club sees the light’

Posted on September 30, 2010 
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“Four years ago it was more Jezebel than Jesus, but now Tasmania’s Anglican Church has reclaimed a former strip club next to its cathedral in Hobart…”

– Report (and image) from ABC News.

Over consumption, not over population, the problem, General Synod told

Posted on September 27, 2010 
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“Population growth is not the fundamental environmental problem, but our greed and over-consumption, said Canon Sandy Grant, Dean of Wollongong, at General Synod this week…”

– this story from Anglican Media Melbourne gives a taste of one debate at last week’s General Synod. (Photo: Anglican Media Melbourne.)

The Constitutional Crisis in ECUSA (I)

Posted on September 27, 2010 
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“Recent changes made by General Convention 2009 to the Canons, in combination with some in the Church who want to establish a strong central authority under the Presiding Bishop, and the ego of the current occupant of that office, have pushed ECUSA to the brink of a crisis, from which it cannot emerge unscathed.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has already seized authority over the affairs of the Church which is unprecedented — and her usurpation of authority to date has for the most part not been challenged, or questioned. Led by its Presiding Bishop, ECUSA is in the middle of being transformed by a small group from within, and the average congregation and their clergy as yet have no awareness of the scope of the changes.”

– Christian lawyer A S Haley, who blogs at Anglican Curmudgeon, has begun what may well be a most enlightening series.

Shadow Gospel

Posted on September 26, 2010 
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Just released:

Shadow Gospel: Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis – by Charles Raven – a new publication from The Latimer Trust in the UK.

Here’s an extract from the preface:

“Although signs of hope are undoubtedly emerging, a secure future for the Anglican Communion rests on an accurate diagnosis of its present ills. In this account of Rowan Williams’ leadership as Archbishop of Canterbury a kind of tragedy unfolds, in which the weight of an historic institution and the resourcefulness of a deeply learned mind are brought to bear in an attempt to sustain the unsustainable – an illusory middle ground between two fundamentally opposed visions of Anglican identity.   Read more

‘Archbishop of Canterbury: Anglican Church has ‘no problem’ with gay bishops’

Posted on September 25, 2010 
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“The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the Anglican Church has “no problem” with homosexuals being bishops but he was not “positive” about them having relationships…”

– From The Telegraph. One of the stories in today’s UK papers. Anglican Mainstream has this response.

Gambling at General Synod

Posted on September 24, 2010 
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“…I’m pleased to say we finally reached a motion I gave notice of on the first day of Synod on the last day! After a bit of debate, it was passed unanimously. …

‘… Synod calls on all state and territory governments to reduce their reliance on taxation on gambling and asks all political parties to refuse donations from organisations which profit from gambling. …’

The last day of Synod also saw Sydney get hammered on the finances.”

Sandy Grant, Rector of St. Michael’s Wollongong, continues his General Synod blogs at The Sola Panel. (Other posts here.)

David Peterson to speak in NZ

Posted on September 24, 2010 
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The Latimer Fellowship in New Zealand has announced details of this year’s William Orange Memorial Lecture:

The Rev Dr David Peterson – Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in New Testament at Moore College – is speaking on “Church Growth in the Book of Acts and Today”.

Auckland: Friday, 5 November 2010
7.30 pm at St Margaret’s Anglican Church, 102 Hillsborough Road, Mt Roskill.

Christchurch: Sunday, 7 November 2010
2.00 pm at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, 6 Emmett Street, Shirley.

Nelson: Tuesday, 9 November 2010
7.30 pm at Bishopdale Theological College, 30 Vanguard Street, Nelson.

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