Church of England looks to attract more ethnic minority Christians
Updated: 2010-06-30 17:12:04
By Riazat Butt, Guardian
Initiatives come amid claims of south Asian Christians feeling unwelcome in mainstream congregations
The Church of England is launching several initiatives to draw more ethnic minorities to its pews and pulpits amid claims of south Asian Christians feeling unwelcome in mainstream congregations.
Official figures show that about 7,000 south Asians regularly worship within the [...]
By Alex Klaushofer, Guardian
All over the country small churches are growing while the large buildings that once housed them decay
This week saw the publication of the first national survey of England's places of worship. The English Heritage survey, which documents the state of 14,500 church buildings from Gothic Anglican confections to nonconformist chapels and Quaker meeting [...]
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By Andrew Brown, Guardian
Richard Dawkins's belief that any properly brought up child will naturally be an atheist leads him into absurdity
Richard Dawkins on Mumsnet came up with a remark to silence all his critics: "What have you read of mine that makes you think I have a skewed agenda?" It certainly left me opening and [...]
By Bill Muehlenberg
Homosexual activists both within and without the church are seeking to rewrite the Bible to push their agenda. They use many ploys to convince us that the Bible has no problem with homosexuality, and that traditional understandings are simply mistaken.
I have discussed some of these ploys elsewhere, but here I will address another [...]
Back in the days of black and white television, one of the staples of light entertainment was the plate-spinning juggler. The act was simple, but compelling: a juggler would balance a series of plates on top of polls by spinning them. The real entertainment came when the plates [...]
June 25th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Marriage, Poverty, TEC |
By Chris Sugden, Evangelicals Now
Anglicans on both sides of the homosexuality debate have concluded that the crisis is now behind us. The key decisions have been made both by TEC and orthodox Anglicans in the Global [...]
June 24th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Church of England, TEC |
From The Lead
An American Episcopalian received the response below to his email concerning his “disappointment … in the manner in which our Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, was treated during her recent visit to [...]
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I regard the proposals which the Archbishops of Canterbury and York are promoting as profoundly disappointing. I had been led by rumours to believe that they would be offering something that would in effect be a Third province … or an Ordinariate … within the Church of England. They are not.
What [...]
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All bishops are equal but some are more equal than others.
WATCH has studied the outline proposals of the Archbishops’ intervention in the progress of legislation for women bishops. Despite the assurances that all will be well we are not convinced that the issues raised regarding jurisdiction will be [...]
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[A dialogue. Two Episcopalians, Quincy and Alex, are exchanging views over their cups of coffee.]
Q What is wrong with ordaining same-sex-partnered persons as bishops of the Episcopal Church?
A The rest of the Anglican Communion begged us not to do it. The Primates, meeting in London in October 2003, issued a unanimous statement which said in [...]
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By A S Haley
Relations between ECUSA and the Anglican Communion have reached a nadir, propelled by the stubborn determination of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, egged on by her Chancellor, to stand her ground and defy the (thus-far private) requests made of her by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The latest developments [...]
From the Rt Revd Lindsay Urwin OGS Church Times
Sir, — It is now time for fair-minded Anglicans who see no reason why women should not be priests and bishops, but who understand that it is possible to be a Christian and a faithful Anglican and take a different view, to make [...]
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