Anglican Mainstream on the Glasspool consecration

Posted on May 16, 2010 
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“In her letter to the Primates, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church (TEC) Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, confirmed that the consecration of the openly gay Mary Glasspool is not a random event but comes from the settled mind of her church.

Sadly, this shows that TEC has now explicitly decided to walk apart from most of the rest of the Communion. Since that decision by TEC has to be respected, it should result in three consequences.

Dr Philip Giddings, Convenor,
Canon Dr Chris Sugden Executive Secretary, Anglican Mainstream.”

– via e-mail. Photo: Diocese of Los Angeles.

Bishop John Harrower calls Tasmanian Christians to prayer

Posted on May 16, 2010 
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Bishop John Harrower has written to the Anglican churches in Tasmania to call them to focus on prayer from Pentecost Sunday (23rd May).

“Pentecost, people and prayer: what a powerful combination! Pentecost Sunday 2010 launches us into prayer;  a time of intentional, focussed prayer.   Read more

ACNA reports growth

Posted on May 16, 2010 
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“Predictions of the death of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) appear to have been premature, as the leaders of the third Anglican province-in-waiting in North America report that in its first year of operations it has added 106 congregations.

Archbishop Robert Duncan, the Bishop of Pittsburgh and leader of ACNA, last week reported that since the Church’s founding convocation in June 2009, 106 new churches have either been planted or joined the ACNA, bringing its total number of congregations to 809 comprising an estimated 100,000 Anglicans in the United States and Canada…”

– George Conger wrote this piece for The Church of England Newspaper.

Bishop Bruno invites all to consecration of Mary Glasspool

Posted on May 15, 2010 
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“Bishop J. Jon Bruno invites the diocesan community to the May 15 service of ordination and consecration of Diane Jardine Bruce and Mary Douglas Glasspool as bishops suffragan of the Diocese of Los Angeles” – at 6:30am AEST on Sunday. Katherine Jefferts Schori will be the chief consecrator.

On Mary Glasspool, Bishop Bruno says, “We elected her, not only a woman, but a woman who is who she is fully as a lesbian person.”

– see his video message on the Diocese of Los Angeles website.

Related: Archbishop Peter Jensen on the Glasspool election (March 18 2010).

Starting something you cannot finish

Posted on May 14, 2010 
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“…those who graduate from this school today, though rightly congratulated, are being sent out to put everything they have, everything they are, everything they have learned, and everything they hope for, on the line for mission and ministry in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

They are not starting careers. Indeed, this may end their careers. They are not newly-minted professionals. In fact, they may be largely useless in the eyes of the secular world. They are now deployed for a life of ministry that runs counter to the wisdom of the world…

Serve, preach, teach, and tell the world about Jesus until they put you in a box or until Jesus comes. And all will be well.”

– Albert Mohler’s address from today’s Commencement of Ministry ceremony at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.

Introducing the new ESV Online

Posted on May 14, 2010 
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From a press release from Crossway:

“Crossway is pleased to announce the new ESV Online. A key part of Crossway’s ESV Digital initiative, the ESV Online is a powerful and convenient tool giving access to the ESV Bible and other resources for understanding and applying God’s Word.

Free access to the ESV Online is now available by signing up at www.esvonline.org. Users are able to customize their own interface, highlight and mark verse numbers, add bookmark ribbons, search the ESV text, and manage personal notes. The free version also includes a variety of daily reading plans and devotional calendars.”

John Newton to Richard Johnson

Posted on May 13, 2010 
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John Newton to Richard Johnson (first Chaplain to New South Wales):

“I have not been disheartened by your apparent want of success. I have been told that skillful gardeners will undertake to sow and raise a salad for dinner in the short time while the meat is roasting. But no gardener can raise oaks with such expedition.

You are sent to New Holland, not to sow salad seeds, but to plant acorns; and your labour will not be lost, though the first appearances may be very small, and the progress very slow. You are, I trust, planting for the next Century.

I have a good hope that your oaks will one day spring up and flourish, and produce other acorns, which, in due time, will take root, and spread among the islands and nations in the Southern Ocean.”

– Craig Schwarze, who is researching Richard Johnson, posted this on his website. There’s another great quote from John Newton here.

(Photo © Marylynn Rouse / The John Newton Project, used with permission.)

Anglican Church of Canada’s synod guide for talking about sex

Posted on May 13, 2010 
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“According to the Windsor Report 2004, scripture is the channel through which the supreme authority of the triune God is exercised (WR section B paragraphs 53–54). However…”

– The Anglican Essentials Canada blog has posted some excerpts.

Missional Church

Posted on May 13, 2010 
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“‘Missional Church’ is a hot topic at present, and almost everyone in church leadership says that they are committed to church being ‘missional’. But what does the term mean? And what implications does it actually have for how we understand church and, more importantly, how we live as a church?…”

– John McClean at the Presbyterian Theological Centre in Sydney plugs an upcoming lecture by Mike Goheen.

Budget: A restraint too far

Posted on May 12, 2010 
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“The Treasurer’s zeal for a ‘fiscally responsible’ budget has seen Australians living at the margins largely forgotten yet again”, says Anglicare Sydney CEO Peter Kell.

– See the Anglicare website.

New Archbishop of Polynesia

Posted on May 12, 2010 
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“The Anglican Church in these islands has a new Archbishop: Dr Winston Halapua, the new Bishop of Polynesia.

Dr Halapua, who is 64 and a Tongan-born, Fijian citizen living in New Zealand, was announced this morning as the new Bishop of Polynesia. As such, he automatically becomes one of the three Archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia…”

– Report from Voxy News NZ. (Photo: Anglican Taonga.)

Reform initial response to Revision Committee Report

Posted on May 12, 2010 
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Reform Press Release 11th May 2010

“The Revision Committee’s report on Women in the Episcopate published on 8th May “provides no adequate framework for recognition of our future ministry in the Church of England and so could lead to a serious squeezing of the pipeline for future ordinands” said Revd Rod Thomas, Reform chairman today.  Read more

Music from The Village Church

Posted on May 12, 2010 
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The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, has graciously made available online their new kids album, “Jesus Came to Save Sinners” – for free download.

Their earlier (adults’) album, “Village Worship” and other music is also freely available.

See it here. (h/t Justin Taylor.)

The Silence has been Deafening

Posted on May 11, 2010 
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“We are now less than six days from ECUSA’s “consecration” of a partnered lesbian to the (ECUSAn, at any rate) episcopacy. As I wrote in this earlier post, in so consecrating Canon Mary Glasspool, ECUSA will shoot itself in the foot. Even so, the silence from Lambeth Palace over the past weeks has been deafening…”

– A S Haley writes at Anglican Curmudgeon.

A marriage which is no longer a marriage

Posted on May 11, 2010 
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Bishop Gregory Venables:

“First of all although the Covenant is a wonderful effort it looks as if it’s not going to succeed because it doesn’t really get to grips with what the problem is. There are two versions of Christianity: the original version and the new version which isn’t true Christianity. It does not address and we are not going to resolve it. Really the Covenant seems to be a way of holding together a marriage which is no longer a marriage.

Also even if we sign the Covenant and believe that there is enough there to work through the problems, the Anglican Church does not have a structure to implement how it would be worked out. We haven’t got a leadership, we haven’t got anybody who can say right now that we’ve done this, this is what’s going to happen.

And the worst thing about it is that now it looks as if there is going to be a standing committee which could fulfil that role but the standing committee is representative of the problem rather than the solution so it doesn’t look very hopeful.”

– Archbishop Venables sees the proposed Anglican Covenant as dead in the water.

(Quoted by A S Haley in his commentary, The Silence has been deafening. Photo from an Anglican TV video.)

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