The Bible is our Photo Album
It is a good time to revisit a helpful metaphor: The Bible is the Church’s Photo Album.
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Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Richard Hooker
On the [day after] the anniversary of his death, it is worth reflecting how Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) is regularly credited with Anglican theology sitting on a three-legged stool of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. In his writings, the closest we can actually find to this is: I do not know
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Call no man Father
Recently, I wrote about the call to stop using “Father” for priests because of the abuse crisis. This post continues that reflection by thinking about the selective biblical literalism that eschews addressing clergy as “Father”. It is repeating a post from an earlier time. Jesus says: “And call no one your father on earth, for
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Rachel Held Evans
In the weekend, I woke up to the news of the death of Rachel Held Evans – sadness and prayers. Many, many, many people have been helped by Rachel’s wisdom and wit. If you have a story, or a quote from her that you love – I invite you to put it in the comment
Twisting the Bible like a Nose of Wax
With a ha-ha-gotcha smirk, Jeff Sessions, Attorney General of the late, great remnant of Christendom, quoted Romans 13 to justify forcibly removing children from their parents at the USA border. White House Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders, also reinforced that all this is biblical. This Bible teaching is famous, of course, in USA, for being used
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So Long Sola and Solo Scriptura
The above picture has been doing the internet rounds as a way to somehow attempt to save those who follow sola-scriptura (the “Bible alone”) from its inherent tendency to individualism and, concomitantly, incessant fragmentation. Serious analysis of the rate of sola-scriptura fragmentation shows the rapid approach of the time when the rate of fragmentation of
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Divorcees & Committed Same-Sex Couples part 1
Yesterday, The Final Report of the Motion 29 Working Group (on blessing Committed Same-Sex Couples in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia) was published. The PDF downloads by clicking here. There is an article about it here. And the Ven. Dr Peter Carrell begins his series discussing it here. This will be
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500th Birthday of Protestantism
500th Anniversary of The Reformation On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther sent a letter to Albrecht (‘Albert’), Archbishop of Mainz and also Archbishop of Magdeburg. There are people (like Andreas Malessa) who think that the story that Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg is “probably nonsense”. I think
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