DaveO asks: Will, I’ve been aware for as long as I can remember the, quite stark really, difference between the “tongues” at Pentecost and what I would call the common contemporary understanding/experience. At Pentecost the apostles speak and are simultaneously heard by a multilingual audience “each one hearing them speak in his own language” (Acts [...]
Archive for June, 2011
The Right Questions
Friday, June 24th, 2011Consider this extract from a Chris Sugden article in an upcoming edition of Evangelicals Now. Towards the end he quotes Vinay Samuel, “one of the leadership team at GAFCON in Jerusalem” who is asking the right questions at the GAFCON end of things: The real issue continues to be evangelical uncertainty in some areas of [...]
Anglican Mission in England
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011GAFCON has announced a new society within the Church of England dedicated to the encouragement of ”church planting and all forms of Christian witness in accord with the Jerusalem Statement of the GAFCON Conference in June 2008.” This is an interesting thing. I wonder the extent of the overlap with other organisations, such as Church [...]
Q&A: What is “Contribute to the needs of the saints”?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Anonymous asks: I heard or read this a while ago now, and made a note of it as I didn’t understand what it meant. It said ”Contribute to the needs of the saints.” It was in some way in connection with things Christian should endevour to achieve. I suspect you are alluding to a section of 2 Corinthians [...]
Bound for South Tasmania
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Bishop John has announced that I am to be appointed as the new Senior Associate Priest of St David’s Cathedral and as his Research Assistant. He writes, “Please pray for Will and Gill and their children as they make their move from Burnie to Hobart in August and as they settle in to a new place and new [...]
State of ACNA Address
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Archbishop Bob Duncan speaks at the provincial council of the Anglican Church of North America. As with all synodical speeches there is some minutiea but there is some profundity also. I particularly appreciate the comments about reorganisation so that they are focussed on the future of mission rather than on the past history marked by [...]
Review: Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision
Monday, June 20th, 2011I remember when I first began studying at College. We were taught exegesis of the Bible – applying literary and historical analysis, asking that all important question of “What did the text mean for the original hearers?”, and all that sort of thing. Many students who are used to a more devotional reading of Scripture [...]
Collegiality
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011I remember receiving the letter from the then Administrator of the Diocese of Tasmania indicating that I was accepted as a candidate for ordination and would be sent to Ridley College for training. At the close of the letter it read something along the lines of “May God bless you in our ministry” May God [...]
Peter Jensen on Real Marriage
Sunday, June 12th, 2011Peter Jensen has released a short thoughtful treatise on the defining of marriage in the public sphere. Because it has been released as a pdf I have reproduced it here in full: Real Marriage Should the Marriage Act allow two people of the same sex to be married? Over the years, I’ve said little about [...]
End of an Era
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Well, almost – there’s one more Space Shuttle flight to go. The last one led to this unique, awesome, shot: Photo is from NASA at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1969.html
