Guest Author ‘Northern Uganda: Why only faith can end the fighting’ by Dr Jenny Taylor, Director of director of Lapido Media, a worldwide church media consultancy reproduced, with kind permission, from The Church Times 8 September 2006 The unsung churches of northern Uganda have played a crucial part in what could be the best chance of peace … Continue Reading
“And apart from other things there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches” (2 Corinthians 11:28) At the still centre of the storm in the Anglican Communion stands the isolated, scholarly figure of the current Archbishop of Canterbury – the first holder of that office since the Reformation, it … Continue Reading
By Dr Brian Stanley The Ramsden Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge on Sunday 4th June 2006 in Great St Mary’s Church by Dr Brian Stanley, Director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. ‘Belief in a Divine mission’, wrote Bertrand … Continue Reading
The response of the Primate of Kenya to the Bishop of Chelmsford has raised a number of questions about the nature of communion, its impairment and the consequences of such impairment for the wider church when it occurs between bishops. What has happened? At present, even after the recent press release and press conference from … Continue Reading
by Tim Wambunya Kenya Church Association It has been a sad week reading about the unfortunate events surrounding the visit of Bishop John Gladwin and his team to the dioceses of Mt Kenya. Sad because this is probably the only ‘working’ link between a UK and Kenyan diocese and where the diocesan Bishop is actively … Continue Reading
‘Confession and Absolution’, a sermon by Canon Lucy Winkett, Canon Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, preached at St Mary Islington, 12 March 2006 Confession and absolution are elements of our Christian journey that lie in deep waters. There is nothing that takes us to the heart of ourselves, our mixed motives, our complex interaction … Continue Reading
The Bishop of Bangor, the Right Reverend Anthony Crockett, responds to Dr Andrew Goddard’s posting of his chapter Calvin, Usury and Evangelical Moral Theology on the Fulcrum website (Page references, unless otherwise indicated, are to Dr Goddard’s text as produced by my printer from the Fulcrum website, and not to the original in the festschrift … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Newsletter, February 2006 by Francis Bridger The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number Dear Fulcrum friends, How should we think of the ‘Evangelical centre?’ Recent discussion on the Fulcrum forum threads has raised the interesting question of whether it … Continue Reading
‘The Times they are a-Changing: The Commonwealth, Faith, Tolerance and Multi-culturalism’, by Dr Jenny Taylor, Director of Lapido Media, a paper given at ‘The Commonwealth After Valetta’ Round Table Conference, Cumberland Lodge, 5-6 January 2006 For the better part of a century, Western governments have sought to eliminate the spiritual from their political discourse – … Continue Reading
A Personal Response to Dr Andrew Goddard’s critique of the Statements of the Bishops of the Church in Wales by the Right Revd Anthony Crockett The Bishop of Bangor Your article The Bishops of the Church in Wales on Civil Partnerships: A Personal Response by Andrew Goddard in Fulcrum appears to be an interesting case of … Continue Reading