This is going to be a lengthy one. Pour yourself a long drink and settle down. Another reactionary frenzy of criticism of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney is underway here in Australia, triggered by some minor changes to wedding liturgy. I’ll let the Sydney Morning Herald, that bastion of objective reporting when it comes [...]
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Believe it or not, that’s the line being run by a former evangelical, Keith Mascord, in today’s smh. After a brief summary of the potential issues with believing in a global flood (Genesis 6-9) he concludes, the only reason a plain (and church-history-long) reading of the Noah story has been overturned in favour of seeing [...]
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For a while there has been a tendency amongst some to accuse those of us who understand that the Bible affirms complementarianism and also the Eternal (Functional) Subordination of the Son of being little better than Arians. The claim is that If in the Trinity all have the same authority, “none are before or after,” all are [...]
View PostJust a small thought as Muriel Porter launches another attack upon Sydney Anglicanism… Muriel Porter in her latest book “Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism (Ashgate Contemporary Ecclesiology)” (quote from Mark Thompson's blog): To my mind the Articles are a quaintly-worded, seriously limited summary of Anglican understandings of faith and doctrine, scarcely relevant to [...]
View PostHave just spent the first day at Oxygen, a great big conference here in Sydney for pastors and others in ministry. Here's what the great and the good of Sydney evangelicalism/Anglicanism (and some squit at the end) thought about it… Oxygen Day 1 from Sydneyanglicans.net on Vimeo. The day started with John Piper setting out [...]
View PostThe memorial website for John Stott is up and running. It contains many gems, not least some brilliant videos. First, from the Langham Partnership, Then this wonderful little snippet from an interview with LICC where Stott is asked how he would like to be remembered, Isn't that telling? Stott's desire for public recognition is as …an [...]
View PostSydney's synod has opened, with the presidential address from ArchBishop Peter Jensen [pdf]. Presidential Address 1 – Society from Sydneyanglicans.net on Vimeo. The address dealt with a number of the general issues facing Anglican Christians in Sydney and Australia today… The philosophical point in favour [of euthanasia] could not have been expressed more clearly than [...]
View Postas posted on SydneyAnglicans.net I dread the day when my children grow up and leave home. Hopefully they won’t act like the prodigal, and ask for half my bank account before they shut the front door behind them in a final show of contempt. I can’t imagine anything worse. Actually now, after four days [...]
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