Entries Tagged as “Unity”

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In Praise of the Diocese of Uruguay
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 15, 2010
Excerpt:  It was with considerable initial regret that I read of the Diocese of Uruguay’s attempt to leave the province of the Southern Cone and re-affiliate itself elsewhere. However, upon further…   Read full post >>

Discerning the Body and Blood of Christ
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on June 03, 2010
Excerpt:  Today is the day on which the feast of Corpus Christi is observed. It was my joy to preside at the Mass for the eve of this feast last night.…   Read full post >>

And the Beat Goes On
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on December 07, 2009
Excerpt:  The news is barely more than a day old and I already feel like I'm Johnny-come-lately by weighing in even now. I'm not sure I have anything original to say…   Read full post >>

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on November 11, 2009
Excerpt:  For a number of reasons which I am not going to rehearse here, I am not a candidate for the provisions set forth in the new Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus.…   Read full post >>

Conflict and Confusion
By:  Benjamin Guyer on October 24, 2009
Excerpt:  Bruce Kaye’s new book, Conflict and the Practice of Christian Faith: The Anglican Experiment (Pickwick Publications, 2009) is, at best, very strange. It is built upon historical error and sloppy…   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part I
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 19, 2009
Excerpt:  This is the first of what I anticipate will be a four-part series on how we think theologically about the Church. Mine has been one of the voices in the…   Read full post >>

What now?
By:  Sam Keyes on August 09, 2009
Excerpt:  2 Kings 2:1-15 Ephesians 4:1-7,11-16 Mark 6:45-52 Psalm 114 The Apostle Paul gives us some of the loftiest language about the Church in the whole New Testament. It is breathtaking.…   Read full post >>

Tract 6: Respecting Boundaries (Pt 4)
By:  Dr. Nathan Jennings on August 05, 2009
Excerpt:  Go to Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 of this series of six articles in ecclesiology. In the previous posts of this series I have pointed out the deep…   Read full post >>

Reflections on the Presiding Bishop’s Address to General Convention
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on July 11, 2009
Excerpt:  I was not present for the presiding bishop's opening address to the joint houses of General Convention because I was at the mortuary with my sister making arrangements for the…   Read full post >>

Bonnie Anderson: Unity is a Spiritual Practice
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on July 11, 2009
Excerpt:  I haven't been able to engage deeply so far with what's going on at General Convention. Mostly, I've been focusing on connecting with people. But I did listen carefully to…   Read full post >>

Tract 2: “Suffer not the Little Ones” (Complete)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on June 12, 2009
Excerpt:  This tract is also available in .pdf format. “He therefore passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, thus sanctifying infants; a child for children, thus sanctifying those who…   Read full post >>

Tract 1: Justice and Communion in Prophetic Ministry (Pt 3)
By:  Craig Uffman on May 21, 2009
Excerpt:  Part 3 - The Liberal Protestant Stairway to Heaven Download a PDF version of this document for forwarding here. Go to Part 1 of this series. Go to Part 2…   Read full post >>

Tract 1: Justice and Communion in Prophetic Ministry (Pt 2)
By:  Craig Uffman on May 18, 2009
Excerpt:  Download a PDF version of this document for forwarding here. Go to Part 1 of this series. Go to Part 3 of this series. In Reconciliation in Communion: A Word…   Read full post >>

Tract 3: Against Iconoclasm
By:  Benjamin Guyer on May 06, 2009
Excerpt:  Download a PDF version for printing and emailing. “Nobody, after all, uses words except for the sake of signifying something.” - St. Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana (I.2,2) Introduction Reconciliation in…   Read full post >>

Bishops’ Statement on the Polity of the Episcopal Church
By:  Ephraim Radner on April 22, 2009
Excerpt:  Published by the Anglican Communion Institute We write as Bishops of The Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion and the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. We are joined by distinguished…   Read full post >>

Tract 2: “Suffer not the Little Ones” (Pt 1)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on April 19, 2009
Excerpt:  [Author's Note: The present tract has been substantially revised and published, in complete form.] The following is also available as a .pdf. In our document Reconciliation in Communion: A Word…   Read full post >>

Tract 1: Justice and Communion in Prophetic Ministry (Pt 1)
By:  Craig Uffman on April 17, 2009
Excerpt:  Download a PDF version of this document for forwarding here. Go to Part 2 of this series. In Reconciliation in Communion: A Word to the 76th General Convention of the…   Read full post >>

Book Review: An Anglican Covenant
By:  Benjamin Guyer on April 08, 2009
Excerpt:  An Anglican Covenant: Theological and Legal Considerations for a Global Debate Norman Doe Canterbury Press (2008) xii + 259 pp. isbn: 9781853119040 On the front cover of the present volume…   Read full post >>

Anglican Consultative Council to meet in Jamaica
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service
By:  Craig Uffman on April 04, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Consultative Council, made up of lay people, clergy and bishops from the 38 Anglican Provinces of the Communion, meets in Kingston Jamaica May 1 - 13, to consider…   Read full post >>

Why We Should Not Proceed
By:  Matt Gunter on April 02, 2009
Excerpt:  On The Reverend Kevin Thew Forrester’s Theological Departure The Diocese of Northern Michigan has selected and put forward for the rest of the church’s consideration as its next bishop, the…   Read full post >>

Tract 6: Respecting Boundaries (Pt 3)
By:  Dr. Nathan Jennings on March 27, 2009
Excerpt:  Go to Part 1 or Part 2 of this series of six articles in ecclesiology. According to the rich, episcopal ecclesiology of Eastern Orthodox theologians like John Zizioulas, the order…   Read full post >>

Managing
By:   Fr. Tony Clavier on March 20, 2009 Excerpt: An old chap I knew long before I became an old chap, when asked how he was always replied “managing”. I’ve found that answer to be a splendid and brief…   Read full post >>

Gregory the Great
By:  Kevin Martin on March 12, 2009
Excerpt:  In her book “The Great Emergence,” Phyllis Tickle mentions as one of the great turning points in the history of the Church the leadership of Gregory the Great. March 12th…   Read full post >>

Anglican-Buddhist elected Bishop
Channel: Religious Intelligence  Author: George Conger
By:  Craig Uffman on February 25, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Communion’s first Anglican-Buddhist Bishop was elected this week at a special convention of the Diocese of Northern Michigan. The sole candidate on the ballot, the Rev Kevin Thew…   Read full post >>

Book Review: The Identity of Anglicanism
By:  Benjamin Guyer on February 17, 2009
Excerpt:  <a></a> The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology Paul Avis T & T Clark (2008) xii + 201 pp. isbn: 9780567032041 Paul Avis, the General Secretary of the Church…   Read full post >>

Mother Church and Christian Unity (Pt 2)
By:  Sam Keyes on February 14, 2009
Excerpt:  Part 2: De Lubac on baptism (Click here to go to Part 1.) In Corpus Mysticum de Lubac asserts as a basic sacramental principle that the sacraments constitute both pledge…   Read full post >>

Mother Church and Christian Unity
By:  Sam Keyes on February 13, 2009
Excerpt:  The following is the first of four articles in a series based on an essay I wrote last fall in a seminar on the work of the Catholic theologian Henri…   Read full post >>

Book Review: The Anglican Spirit
By:  Benjamin Guyer on February 06, 2009
Excerpt:  <a></a> The Anglican Spirit Michael Ramsey Seabury Press (2004) xvii + 147 pp. isbn: 1596280042 Shortly before his death in 1988, Michael Ramsey, the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury (1961 –…   Read full post >>

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