Posts Tagged ‘anglican’
In Praise of… Dave Walker
Dave Walker is the official cartoonist and blogger for the Church Times. He drew the cartoon I have in the column on the left. He is also Cartoonist and Liturgical Dancer in Residence at the Lambeth Conference.
Dave’s writing and cartoons bring information and delight in equal measure to myself and my colleague Liz, keeping us [...]
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Tags: anglican, anglican church, cartoonchurch.com, cartoons, Dave Walker, humour, Lambeth Conference, Monty Python, The Dave Walker Guide to Church
GAFCON: Anglican Split
Well, the declaration is published, and the initial analysis is flowing in. The primates attending the Global Anglican Future CONference have decided to form a ‘fellowship of confessing Anglicans’, which may or may not recognize Canterbury and the leaders of the Episcopal Churches in the US and Canada.
The fellowship has defined itself doctrinally, holding on [...]
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Tags: anglican, anglican church, Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Caterbury, Cantuar, faith, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, Lambeth Conference, Rowan Williams
Why GAFCON matters
I was quite flippant about GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future CONference) in my last post. The thing is, while I acknowledge that this is something that will bore or bemuse the vast majority, I think it is actually a hugely significant event.
The BBC and the broadsheets certainly think so. Dave Walker, over at the church [...]
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Tags: anglican, anglican church, Anglican Communion, Christianity, Evangelical Christianity, faith, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, homosexuality, Lambeth Conference, schism, Women Bishops, women in ministry
No-one else will care about this (it drew numerous blank looks when I was asked to explain it at the weekend), but GAFCON began today.
No, this isn’t come high tech conference dealing in the latest GPS-related gadgets or a superhero-fans get together: GAFCON is the Global Anglican Future CONference, a gathering of right-wing, ‘conservative’ clergy [...]
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Tags: anglican, Anglican Mainstream, Bishops, Comic-Con, controversy, faith, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, homosexuality, Lambeth Conference, Michael Nazir-Ali, Peter Akinola, Reform, Rowan Williams, split, Women Bishops
10 Predictions for 2008
OK, these aren’t really that serious, but I thought I’d have a go… 10 predictions for things that might just happen in 2008. Some are more plausible than others; none of them should be used to elevate me to a position of sage or futurologist (unless they all come true!)
The American presidential election race will [...]
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Tags: 10 Predictions for 2008, 2008, anglican, anglican church, Apple, David Cameron, emerging church, Google, Gordon Brown, Lambeth Conference, news, Predictions, The Year Ahead, UK Politics, US elections, US Politics
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Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
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