The final statement from the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) has been released. I’ve been watching the proceedings of GAFCON with interest but from very far away. Along with many people I have been looking forward to the release of the GAFCON statement – it will be a defining moment, to some degree, in the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Review: Money, Sex, Power
Friday, June 27th, 2008Money, Sex, Power by Richard Foster is an “oldy but a goody” book (I was only 10 years old when it was first published) that I’ve had on my bookshelf for years but have never got round to reading. Necessity breeds opportunity and so I dusted off the book to help prepare for a sermon [...]
Future Control
Saturday, June 21st, 2008I am currently part of a group that is looking at some scenario planning for the world and church in twenty years time. Scenario planning involves imagining the “scenario” the world would be in if it were to progress in certain directions. One of the directions we are investigating is the direction in which there [...]
Why Anglican? Merely Christian
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Right now, or very soon, the “Global Anglican Future Conference” (GAFCON) meets in Jerusalem. For those unaware of the issues affecting the global group of Christians that are willing to bear the banner of “Anglican”, let it simply be said that this is a key meeting in the efforts to keep the global Anglican church [...]
A M’Cheyne a day
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I’ve been away for a few days at a family funeral, so no posts for a while. On my first day back I came across an excellent site which has a bunch of resources relating to the M’Cheyne daily bible reading program. I’ve been using the M’Cheyne since the beginning of this year and find [...]
