Anglicans and Orthodoxy

The news that the Roman Catholic Church has set up a new mechanism for receiving disaffected Anglicans has caused a bit of a flurry in the Christian blogosphere. The Orthodox have also been talking to disaffected Anglicans; recently Metropolitan Jonah, of the Orthodox Church in America, addressed a breakaway group, the Anglican Church of North [...]

The rise and fall of the charismatic renewal movement

A couple of years ago I embarked on a research project to try to chart the history of the charismatic renewal movement in southern African Christianity. It seemed to me that its influence and aftermath had been underplayed in much of the church history I had read, and that if it wern’t recorded, many things [...]

Ecclesiology – the stumbling block

Over the past few years outsiders have watched with varying degrees of bewilderment or boredom as the Anglican Communion has apparently been tearing itself apart. As far as the secular media have been concerned, it’s all about sex. The rhetoric of the participants in the debates is strong on words like “scripture” and “inclusion” but [...]

Behind the times — memoirs of a has been

It’s amazing how quickly things you say can come back to bite you. It’s less than half an hour since I was a bit sarky, in the previous post, about the Mail & Guardian being a bit behind the times in referring to “Verwoerdburg” on its Amatomu blog aggregator site, when I discover that the [...]

Emerging church in North America

It seems that a new church is emerging in North America.
TitusOneNine – Emerging Anglican Province Announces 28 Dioceses:
Leaders representing Canadian and US orthodox Anglican jurisdictions approved applications for membership of 28 dioceses and dioceses-in-formation and finalized plans for launching the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Twelve Anglican organizations are uniting to form the ACNA.
The [...]

Makhalafukwe

Melmoth is a small town about 50 kilometres north of Eshowe in Zululand, and this post describes a community development effort that took place there about 28 years ago, during the apartheid era.
I was moved to write about this after reading a post on Tom Smith’s blog Soul Gardeners, in which he said
A few months [...]

Again and again

No, not “Again and again in peace let us pray to the Lord” but again and again we keep hearing of the atrocities of the Brewer brothers in destroying Christian bookshops.
Hat-tip to Phil Groom for this link to an article in the Northern Echo:
AN unholy row has broken out over the running of a cathedral [...]

Anglican Church dumps the dying

For many years the Anglican Church’s Tumelong Mission has served people in and around Tshwane, but now shortage of funds has forced it to retrench severely.

clipped from www.iol.co.za

‘I give the assurance before God that the (Tumelong) Mission is not closing, that no one has been dismissed and that there is no threat to any of [...]

New Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

The new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makhoba, is the youngest ever to hold that office. At his enthronement he called for a healing of divisions in society, yet he faces even more serious divisions in the church.

clipped from www.thetimes.co.za

The new Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, called for fresh efforts [...]

New monasticism meets old

This morning I went to hear Roger Saner speaking about the new monasticism at the Seattle Coffee Shop in Brooklyn Mall.
Roger and I have been reading each other’s blogs for about a year now, and when I heard he would be speaking less than 8 km from where I live, it seemed a good opportunity [...]