An Anglican Prayer Book (2008) reviewed
Posted on March 5, 2009
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“For evangelicals in the Church of England who are not familiar with the history of The Episcopal Church, the more conservative of the denomination’s evangelicals succeeded from the church in the 1870s due to the growth and increased influence of Tractarianism in the church and the incipient Catholic doctrines of the 1789 Book of Common Prayer. Those who remained in The Episcopal Church became Broad Church liberals. By 1900 evangelicalism had disappeared from The Episcopal Church. Anglo-Catholicism and Broad Church liberalism became the dominant theological streams in The Episcopal Church. …”
– Robin G. Jordan, who runs the blog Anglicans Ablaze, critiques and outlines the history of An Anglican Prayer Book (2008) prepared for the AMiA.
From the current issue of Cross†Way – published by Church Society. A valuable insight into the situation in the USA. Download the article as a PDF file (direct link).
New video resources coming from Sydney
Posted on March 4, 2009
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“Today Anglican Media announces the arrival of a new video platform set to deliver free visual resources to Christian workers across the Diocese.
In the tradition of Southern Cross and Sydneyanglicans.net, the monthly production called SX Digital will provide news, events and resource videos aimed at assisting local churches. …”
– story from SydneyAnglicans.net. The first update is now online – with video via Vimeo and also as a 66MB mpeg4 download.
Something missing?
Posted on March 4, 2009
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The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund of the Anglican Church of Canada has published a book of Lenten Studies with a brief comment on a Bible passage for each day.
The comments illustrate a liberal approach to the Bible. Here are some excerpts – see if you can spot what’s missing – Read more
The 1928 Prayer Book
Posted on March 4, 2009
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Why are we running an article on the 1928 Prayer Book now? A new ‘orthodox’ province has been established in North America (only a day ago as I write). It has set out in a provisional constitution its doctrinal position but has not adopted any formal liturgies. The Jerusalem Declaration from GAFCON affirms the 1662 Book of Common Prayer but in the United States in particular the traditional prayer book before the 1970s was their 1928 book. That book is not the same as the English 1928 book, a matter that has caused considerable confusion in some discussions, but nevertheless it is also not the 1662 book. …
– David Phillips, General Secretary of Church Society, writes in the current issue of Cross†Way and the article is available as a PDF file (direct link).
Free online access to the ESV Study Bible (for a month)
Posted on March 3, 2009
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Here’s a press release from Crossway:
“Crossway is pleased to make the ESV Online Study Bible available free—for anyone and everyone—for a limited time beginning today, March 2, 2009. Until now, the ESV Online Study Bible has been available exclusively to those who have purchased the print edition.”
– Details at the ESVSB Blog.
Northern Michigan Elects ‘Christian-Buddhist’ Bishop
Posted on March 3, 2009
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News from last week:
The Diocese of Northern Michigan elected the Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester as bishop Feb. 21 at a special diocesan convention. … The announcement of Fr. Forrester’s nomination sparked controversy last month because he is also a practicing Buddhist and said he had received Buddhist “lay ordination” and was “walking the path of Christianity and Zen Buddhism together.” …
– from The Living Church. Other details from the Diocese of Northern Michigan. (Photo: Episcopal News Service.)
Dever interviews Carson on Books
Posted on March 3, 2009
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Last December, 9 Marks published online the first part of an interview by Mark Dever with Don Carson.
In the second part of the interview, just published, focusses on some of the books Don has written. It runs for 56 minutes and is available here at 9Marks.
The Anglican Covenant: A House on Sand
Posted on March 3, 2009
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“As the March 9th deadline approaches for Provincial responses to the Covenant Design Group, an odd but telling paradox is emerging; in order to stabilise the Anglican Communion, it seems essential that the Covenant’s biblical foundations should be weak. …”
– Charles Raven at SPREAD writes on the proposed Anglican Covenant.
Apologies
Posted on March 3, 2009
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Our apologies for lack of news on the ACL website last week – our web hosting company had misconfigured things. We’re back now.
Give no assistance or encouragement
Posted on February 21, 2009
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This Memorandum has been sent to clergy in the Diocese of New Westminster:
Memorandum
To: Diocesan Clergy, Members of Diocesan Council
From: Bishop Michael Ingham
Date: February 19, 2009
Subject: New Activities of the Network
Dear Friends in Christ:
Throughout the centuries, Anglicanism has held together evangelicals, liberals, and anglo-catholics in a single church. Such is our ethos and mysterium. Read more
Launch of church planting network
Posted on February 21, 2009
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“Last night Al Stewart, Andrew Heard and Steve Chong cast a bold vision to create a new Australian church planting network. … There was a great buzz as 170 crowded into a room at the Wesley Centre.… People came who are already part of Christian networks — RICE, FIEC, Presbyterian churches, Baptist Churches, Church Army, Anglican Churches and others.”
– Michael Kellahan blogs about the meeting last night. (Photo courtesy of Michael’s blog.)
Carl Jung and the Gnostic Reconciliation of Gender Opposites
Posted on February 21, 2009
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Ed Hird, Rector of St. Simon’s Church in North Vancouver (ANiC), gave this address at the CWiPPTHINK 09 conference in San Diego earlier this month. –
“Leanne Payne wrote an unforgettable book in 1995 entitled ‘Crisis in Masculinity’. We live in an age where equality is equated with sameness, where men and women are deeply confused about their gender identity, about what really is authentic male and authentic female. I believe that this Gnostic Reconciliation of Gender Opposites, this gender-blending about authentic maleness and femaleness, is the direct result of our culture’s embracing of the Jungian agenda. …”
– Read Ed’s talk (PDF file – direct link) at the St. Simon’s website.
Here one moment — tribute song for the victims of the Victorian bushfires
Posted on February 20, 2009
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Colin Buchanan writes,
“I wrote HERE ONE MOMENT in 1994 after the Sydney fires, which claimed life and property within about a 10 min drive of my home.
In 2001 the fires came up to the back of our house at about 2 am in the morning — I stayed, the family had been evacuated. It was quite an experience standing in my backyard when the flames finally appeared coming up through the bush. Being threatened by fire just makes the reports that much more real, even though we lost nothing.
I felt the Victorian fires — our worst ever with loss of life topping a horrifying 200 average Aussies — warranted a new verse for Here One Moment.”
– See his website to download the song and lyrics.
Connecting with families via DVD
Posted on February 20, 2009
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One of the ways in which Sydney parishes are seeking to connect with their communities is through a DVD being produced by Colin Buchanan. (Colin and his friend Nudge made an appearance at The Big Day In.) The aim is to offer it to as many families as possible. It will be available from March 18th.
Churches participating in Connect09 have until next Friday (February 27 – the deadline has been extended a week) to place their orders. The DVDs which are heavily subsidised to allow them to be given away. Please pray for this effort.
Engaging With Barth
Posted on February 19, 2009
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Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds draws attention to the availability (in the US) of Engaging With Barth: Contemporary Evangelical Critiques.
Contributors include Mike Ovey and Mark Thompson.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…