A Sermon for Ash Wednesday 2010
Isaiah 58:1-14 Brennan Manning, the Catholic author, writes in The Ragamuffin Gospel about a visit to a baseball game when he was a teenager. Like many people do at these events, he bought a hot dog from one of the …
Month: February 2010
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Bit of a stir being caused this afternoon by this story in the papers. In a leaflet issued to parishoners, the Rev Angus MacLeay used passages in the Bible to justify women playing a submissive role in local church life. …
General Synod – We affirm desire of ACNA to remain in the Anglican Communion
An amazing moment in General Synod as it passes a motion to affirm the desire of ACNA to remain part of the Communion. That this Synod, aware of the distress caused by recent divisions within the Anglican churches of the …
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Together, We Discovered Mercy
Some beautiful words from Andy Comiskey. 30-years ago, ‘Living Waters’ surfaced in West Hollywood. The burning ground of lust and sexual confusion became a pool of God’s mercy. Every Wednesday night for two years, we met in the home of …
Rowan’s Address to Synod
You can read the full thing here. For me, the key sections around human sexuality are these. The debate over the status and vocational possibilities of LGBT people in the Church is not helped by ignoring the existing facts, which …
Questions Questions
Yesterday in Synod we had question time (a slightly less fractious affair then the one that happens over the road from where Synod meets) and there were one or two questions up to discuss issues around the Equality Bill and …