Entries Tagged as ‘Anglicanism’

10 April 2008

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 [...]

31 March 2008

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 [...]

29 February 2008

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 [...]

9 February 2008

Backtracking on secularisation

Father David MacGregor has linked together a number of reports in his Contact Online blog about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s views on introducing Sharia law into Britain, which has set a herd of cats among the pigeons. Here’s an example of what people have been saying Contact Online Weblog: Archbishop backtracks amid calls to resign
The [...]

5 December 2007

Nevius, Allen, Kasatkin

There is much talk today of the “missional church“, though from all I have read about it (mainly in the blogosphere) people seem to have difficulty in defining it. Most of the definitions, however, seem to differ very little from those of what, a few years ago, was called “the missionary church”. The main difference [...]

27 November 2007

Imperialism and the Archbishop

US imperialism has created the worst of all worlds, says the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. I don’t disagree. But when he says that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain in its imperial heyday, I think he has not studied history enough.
Back at the beginning of 2003, [...]

10 November 2007

Jurisdictionalism hits Anglicans in USA

Anglicanism in the USA seems to be on its way to becoming a tangled mess of separate jurisdictions even more complicated than the jurisdictional mess in the Orthodox Church there. Some US Episcopalians have linked to Anglican dioceses in various parts of Africa, and now South America has jumped in.For the last 150 years [...]

13 October 2007

African Anglicans and homosexuality

I’ve been watching from the sidelines as the Anglican Communion is tearing itself apart over homosexuality.  The debate seems to generate more heat than light, and both sides seem to be talking past each other.
It seems to be a war of polemical slogans. The African “intrasigence” has provoked a storm of racist bigotry in the [...]

7 September 2007

Orthodoxy lite draws evangelicals

When trying to discover what the “emerging church” movement was about, I got the opportunity to hear one of the fundis on it, Brian McLaren, speak in Pretoria. As I’ve noted in this blog and elsewhere, most of what he said was pretty familiar, and most Orthodox Christians would find little to disagree with in [...]

28 April 2007

Missional ecclesiology — what is it?

As a retired missiologist I still take an interest in missiology (for those who don’t know, missiology is the study of Christian mission) and so I took an interest in a new development I discovered about 18 months ago when I found that bloggers who listed “missiology” among their interests also listed “emerging church”, and [...]