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January 11 2007
OXFORD: Responses to criticism of A Covenant for the Church of England
Secondly, some of the criticisms seem to have more to do with perceptions that the critics have of some of the authors, reaching back into past history, rather than the text of CCE itself. The argument runs: "Since such-and-such are among those who are saying this, it must mean what they seem to have meant in the past". The Covenant is thus guilty by association.
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January 04 2007
VIRGINIA: Episcopal Churches' Breakaway in Va. Evolved Over 30 Years
Shortly before Christmas, The Falls Church and neighboring Truro Church -- which in Colonial times belonged to a single parish -- vented those feelings by voting overwhelmingly to break away from the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church.
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December 28 2006
THE BAPTISMAL COVENANT - by Peter Toon
Covenant in the 1979 Prayer Book
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December 26 2006
Justification, The Reformers, and Rome
For the Roman position on justification, I have studied the Catechism of the Catholic Church published in 1992 by the authority of John Paul II. It was written under the direction of then Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. This new Catechism is the first officially authorized catechism of the Roman Church since the 1566 Catechism that enshrined the doctrines of Trent.
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December 10 2006
ENGLAND: Evil-minded parishioners making life hell for clergy
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is among the contributors to the report, The Future of the Parish System: Shaping the Church of England for the 21st Century.
One of the authors, Sara Savage, a psychology and religion researcher at the University of Cambridge, reports how increasing numbers of ministers are going down with a new illness, irritable clergy syndrome.
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December 08 2006
ROME: St Paul's tomb found under altar
"I have no doubt that this is the tomb of St Paul, as revered by Christians in the fourth century," said Giorgio Filippi, the Vatican archaeologist who made the discovery.
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December 06 2006
William Wilberforce by Michael Hennell
Most of them were members of Parliament and several were experts in various fields, Thornton in banking, Stephen in law, Grant in Indian affairs and Macaulay in literature.
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