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Petition launched by GS members for resignation of the ABC over the Smyth affair. Three members of the Church of England’s General Synod have started a petition — backed by a number of high-profile priests — calling on Welby to resign after a report lambasted the church for failing to stop John Smyth, a Christian...
Healing Grace - Anglican Mainstream
1 day ago · That said, we are at a point in Christian circles today where we need to hear less of ‘hyper-grace’ (in the sense of forgiveness and justification alone) and more of ‘healing grace’ (in the sense of God’s salvation as a power at work within us to restore life and righteousness). The full theology is that of forgiving and healing ...
Lectures on the Power of Biblical Friendships in Mission and Witness
3 days ago · Starting off the first lecture last week, Mike Judge, Pastor of Chorlton Evangelical Church in South Manchester, offered biblical examples of strong friendships such as Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, and Paul and Timothy, demonstrating their loyalty, love, faithfulness and spiritual growth. The four other lectures will include Revd Dr ...
Awaiting the Second Advent - Anglican Mainstream
Dec 23, 2023 · By Matthew Kuchem, Public Discourse. Christmas hope is grounded both in the reality of Christ’s first advent and also in the reality that he will come again to fully establish the peace his princely rule has promised. This is one of the great paradoxes of the faith: Christ has come, and he is coming. The kingdom has arrived, yet we pray ...
Editorial Blog - Anglican Mainstream
Editorial Blog. Dave Doveton is the Senior Editor of this website. These articles are mostly concerned with authentic, biblically orthodox Christian faith and its interaction with the Anglican Church, especially the Church of England, and the wider culture. Please press the ‘Refresh’ or “reload’ button to ensure you see the latest blog ...
God comes knocking at the door of science - Anglican Mainstream
2 days ago · Fr Spitzer begins by asking whether science points to a beginning of the universe. There have been many theories about the cause of our universe: infinite or finite multiverses, a bouncing universe that waxes and wanes, of which our universe is just an interlude, a string of universes, and an infinite steady state quantum cosmology, which also ...
Open letter from Inclusive Evangelicals - Anglican Mainstream
Nov 4, 2023 · Open letter from Inclusive Evangelicals. Nov 4, 2023 by Jill. from Thinking Anglicans: A letter signed by over 600 evangelicals* in the Church of England has been published today.In advance of the forthcoming meeting of the General Synod (which meets later this month) the letter — published by the recently formed Inclusive Evangelicals — backs the course of action which was approved by the ...
Sermons Archives - Anglican Mainstream
When we put our faith in Jesus, he saves us for eternity. Jan 21, 2024. by Julian Mann, TCW: JESUS’S treatment of suffering people in the Prayer Book Gospel reading for today, the Third Sunday after the Epiphany, reveals his divine compassion and his power to save. The passage from Matthew’s Gospel, chapter...
Advent Series: The Coming of the Christ - Anglican Mainstream
Nov 23, 2023 · Second, Jesus tells us he came to save the world (Jn 3.17). The coming of the Christ, in what St Paul calls ‘the fullness of time’ (Gal. 4.4–7), inaugurates a series of events yet unfinished until the Christ comes again ‘that God may be all in all’ (1 Cor. 15.28). Third, Simeon prophesies bewilderingly about the Christ child. Whilst ...
Lambeth Conference - Anglican Mainstream
Jul 6, 2022 · The Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops has produced a booklet outlining a series of “calls”, outlining current church teaching, and suggesting next steps in calls to action. Lambeth I.10 set to become a sticky wicket at Lambeth 2022, by Mary Ann Mueller, VOL: Progressives are already casting conservatives as “anti-equality”.