During Lent, members of the clergy at St Mary’s are giving addresses at Choral Evensong on the theme “If I had just one more sermon to preach…”
Here’s mine:
In the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
If I had just one more sermon to preach, I’d tell people that God loved them.
The truth is, (more…)
Re: General Synod
As one “not in good standing” I must congratulate you Kelvin. Had it not been for your “much wider” approach I would not now be a member of the Episcopalian Church and I would certainly have missed much that has given my life greater value. Questioning and, reassurance about it, can, in my opinion, only serve to benefit the future of the Episcopalian Church. May voices and opinions like this continue to be raised.
Re: General Synod
As someone who is both Anglican and URC I am saddened by the Episcopal Church throwing out SCIFU. I think that any denomination that does not see the need to build together is destined to be marginalised or ignored. I welcome the stand against restricting Communion.
Re: General Synod
Thanks for the points raised, Anonymous. I think that in all the comments in the debate at the synod, people were saying that they did want to go on building together, it is just that the SCIFU proposal was not the way that they could see themselves doing it, particularly since the C of S pulled out last year.
Synod did pass a resolution indicating that it did want to go on looking for unity with other denominations and was explicit in saying that the priority in this was the Methodists and the URC. (I’m not so sure that this part has been well reported).
One of the big differences between the theological training that I received from the university and the theological training I received from the church was that the former was interested in heresy and the latter wasn’t interested at all. It may be that things are different now, I don’t know. But quite a lot of…
Here’s the sermon I preached on the Road to Emmaus story.
I see that at his diocesan synod, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev Michael Perham has made a very passionate plea for even more “gracious restraint”. “My own view is that what is needed in the Church at present is gracious restraint. We need a cool and calm period in which to explore the…
I’ve been watching the various debates about whether “we” live in a Christian country with interest over the last 10 days or so. I’m inclined to agree with the notion that the UK clearly has such a great heritage from the Christian tradition that it makes sense to speak of it as having been a…
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