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April 12 2004
Some of My Best Friends are Gay: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage- by Samuel Silver
This critical debate is not truly between homosexuals and heterosexuals;
it is between two opposing worldviews, one secular and the other
religious. [2] Approximately 80% of Americans hold a religious
worldview, [3] but the secular left has done an excellent, yet
nefarious, job of dividing those with a religious worldview through
false stereotyping. Their manipulative divide & conquer strategy has led
March 30 2004
"Christianity and Islam", Collision or Convergence - by George Carey
The theme of my course at the Gregorian has been ‘Unity and Mission’. My desire to offer a lecture on Christian-Muslim relations tonight has not only been fired by the course I have given, but also because for the last ten years or so it has been an important strand in my ministry as a Christian leader.
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March 30 2004
AMiA: Report Released on Women's Ordination
This ministry of "the priesthood of all believers" or of "the whole people of God," involves us all. Men and women are both gifted by God. They bring complementary sensibilities to ministry, and both need to be properly equipped, openly commissioned and fully recognized in the ministry of the Gospel. Given the tremendous scope of the mission that lies before us in a fallen world and in a secular society, we all need to be fully involved in ministry.
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March 20 2004
ORTHODOXY: The Real Watershed - by Peter C. Moore
One of Brown’s astonishing claims (presented as fast-paced truth) is that Jesus was never considered divine until, at the Emperor Constantine’s insistence, the Council of Nicea voted him so in 325 A.D. Brown doesn’t explain why Christians of that day never noticed this sudden change in their doctrine of Christ.
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March 18 2004
OHIO: Canon Theologian Responds to Ohio's Actions
These and other similar steps are part of a larger picture of an
Episcopal community in crisis whose primary overseers remain sadly in
denial.
March 13 2004
Thoughts for a congregation divided as it faces the homosexuality issue
Note to the reader: the strong majority in this particular congregation favored the traditional position. There was a much smaller group favoring greater openness to rethinking the issue. Some of these had already left; others were wondering if there could be a place for them. The emphases in this address are therefore somewhat different from those that might be made in a parish where the dividing line fell the other way.
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March 13 2004
"The Gathering Storm" By Robin Guinness
At heart the same sex blessing controversy is a theological issue,
not an issue of life-style. It is an issue of belief before it is an
issue of behaviour.
March 12 2004
On Asking the Right Question - by Bishop John H. Rodgers
Let me begin with the perspective of excommunication of false teachers.
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March 06 2004
True Inclusiveness According to the Word of God (Part I) - by Fleming Rutledge
I understand that I am inside the Beltway here, and in a presidential election year at that; therefore I know that everything I say will be in a political context. I am certainly capable of making a politically partisan speech, but as a preacher of the gospel I do not do that. I did not do it last Advent when I preached at the National Cathedral on the eve of the Iraq war, and I am not going to do it now.
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March 06 2004
What Exactly is the Gospel (Part II) - by Fleming Rutledge
I don’t need to tell you that the Episcopal Church is in turmoil. I want to look briefly at the mainline churches in general. That’s the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Episcopalians, and the United Church of Christ. These American denominations in direct descent from the Reformation are being challenged as never before in our history.
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