Words too late

Dr George Carey has been speaking for orthodoxy. It is a pity, suggests George Austin, he didn’t do so rather earlier when he was Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop George Carey had some fierce and challenging comments to offer at a [...]

2017-10-02T16:26:32+00:00June 2009 Articles|

Dunstan of Canterbury

Folk memory and hagiographical excess survive better than the careful sifting of evidence by historians. Dunstan's temptation by the Devil in human disguise was thwarted when Dunstan twisted his nose with red-hot pincers. On another occasion Dunstan nailed a horseshoe [...]

2017-10-02T16:25:51+00:00June 2009 Articles|

Confused or faithful

Chris Sugden reflects on ACC-14 and why both Evangelicals and Catholics need to stand firm together in the faith A case is being heard this week in the Vancouver courts to settle whether St Johns Church, Shaughnessy, the largest congregation [...]

2017-10-02T16:24:27+00:00June 2009 Articles|

new look equality

A couple of days after the Anti-Discrimination Directive had been passed by the European Parliament - with the accompanying media interest in churches being forced to marry gays and give communion to atheists - another Equality Bill was presented to [...]

2017-10-02T16:23:56+00:00June 2009 Articles|

It could be costly

The better the provision Synod can offer for our integrity the less it will have to shell out in financial payments And vice versa, as James Patrick clearly illustrates Bishop Andrew Burnham once said that the spiritual discipline of the [...]

2017-10-02T16:23:06+00:00June 2009 Articles|

comment

ACC Jamaica [see 'Correspondents' p. 22] will go down in the annals of world-wide Anglicanism as a missed - and tragically bungled - opportunity. The Chairmanship of Bishop John Paterson of New Zealand clearly left a great deal to be [...]

2017-10-02T15:42:40+00:00June 2009 Articles|
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