sermon preached 11 August 2013 at Glenquarie Anglican. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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In others news, I think I announced that I will be going to GAFCON 2 this October in Nairobi. If I didn’t then there it is! Here the Chair of the GAFCON Primates, Archbishop Eliud Wabakula of Kenya, speaks about the conference and the importance of East Africa. image: All Saints Cathedral Nairobi
From SydneyAnglicans.net A synod of more than 800 members has overwhelmingly elected Bishop Glenn Davies as the 12th Archbishop of Sydney. Dr Davies replaced Dr Peter Jensen who held the post for 12 years. For much of Archbishop Jensen’s tenure, Dr Davies served with him as the Bishop of North Sydney. The other nominee for […]
One of the things that I’ve been reflecting on a fair amount in the past few months since my move from Neutral Bay to Macquarie Fields is the relative difficulties, advantages, stresses and joys of Christian ministry in those respective locations. At first sight it should seem obvious that life on the Lower North Shore of […]
One of the key questions which is being asked at the moment in Sydney about our two prospective candidates for next week’s election as Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney is which man will best unite the Diocese? While in one sense we’re obviously a fairly unified bunch (often it feels like Sydney contra Mundum!) […]
If you’re into that sort of thing you will have noticed that the Church of England has begun another attempt to get the necessary legislation to allow for the consecration of women bishops through the General Synod after the failure last year to get 2/3 majorities in all three houses (bishops, clergy and laity). At […]
In the run-up to GAFCON 2 later this year in Nairobi, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya has issued the first of a series of monthly messages. This first one has much to digest but these 2 paragraphs are quite stark in their open criticism of current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby (my emphasis): While we […]
Pete Broadbent, the suffragen bishop of Willesden in the Diocese of London has written a post, “Women Bishops – where are we now?, on his personal blog about the current legislative crisis in the Church of England General Synod over women bishops. Pete is in favour of protection for conservatives but what he writes is going to […]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly coming to the conclusion that there is a massive similarity in the way our society is handling the two “religious” questions of homosexuality and violent Islam. In both areas there has been a singular failure to read religious texts as they were intended to be read and […]
Tonight sees a service officially farewelling Archbishop Peter Jensen and his wife Christine. Archbishop Peter Jensen and Mrs Christine Jensen will be officially farewelled at a large service at St Andrew’s Cathedral on Friday night, 14th of June. Dignitaries such as the Premier, Barry O’Farrell and the Governor, Professor Marie Bashir, will be in attendance […]