Posts Tagged ‘controversy’
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
Negotiating Minefields
Michael Spencer (the Internet Monk) has recently been tackling, with great sensitivity, the biggest minefield in contemporary, western Christianity: the issue of homosexuality.
There are three essays: the first is a commentary on the need for sensitive, loving communication; the second and third are responses to a specific commenter, on (loosely) whether orientation is God-given, and [...]
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Tags: controversy, Evangelical Christianity, faith, homosexuality, Internet Monk, Michael Spencer, sexuality
Heresy
I think we use the word Heresy too much.
Grace has posted an open conversation on yet another controversy regarding the comments of one Mark Driscoll. Mark, talking to a group of pastors in the states, uses the platform to ‘constructively criticise’ some of the more prominent US ‘emerging church ‘ voices. Mmmm…
I haven’t heard the [...]
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Tags: controversy, criticism, diverse church, emerging, emerging church, Heresy, Mark Driscoll

