Nourishing Unity? NEAC 2008 – Fulcrum Newsletter 25, November 2008

Nourishing Unity? NEAC 2008 Fulcrum Newsletter, November 2008 by Graham Kings copublished, with permission, from The Church Times, 14 November 2008 Unity amongst Evangelicals in the Church of England is urgently needed at this crucial moment in the Anglican Communion. We are committed to the teaching of the Communion on sexuality and opposed to the … Continue Reading

Hopes for NEAC 2008: a personal reflection

Hopes for NEAC 2008: A Personal Reflection by Andrew Goddard Next Saturday, November 15th, sees the convening of a National Evangelical Anglican Consultation (NEAC) at All Souls, Langham Place in London. It has been called by the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC). In contrast to the large-scale NEACs of Keele (1967), Nottingham (1977), Caister … Continue Reading

Preventing CEEC becoming a 'Rump Parliament'

Preventing CEEC from becoming a ‘Rump Parliament’ by Stephen Kuhrt prepublished, with permission, from the Church of England Newspaper, 14 November 2008 ‘Rump’ is a term that originally referred to the hind end of an animal. Since the seventeenth century, however, its use has been expanded to speak of any unrepresentative remnant left in power … Continue Reading

Mission Shaped Church or Church Shaped Mission: A Continuing Conversation

Whatever we think about this question and whatever theological and observational critiques we bring to the current trends in local church shaping, there are at least two things that God’s people (traditionally, historically and scripturally) affirm regarding God’s activity: namely that God is for the healing of the world and that God is not an … Continue Reading

Growing Women Leaders: Nurturing Women's Leadership in the Church

Growing Women Leaders: nurturing women’s leadership in the Church by Rosie Ward Women’s leadership in the Church is a hot topic around the world, yet there are few books which address the issues women face as well as the theological debate which lies behind them. This is why I wrote Growing Women Leaders: nurturing women’s … Continue Reading

A Humble Moment: sermon by Jeremy Begbie at the consecration of Chris Cocksworth and David Thomson

A Humble Moment by Jeremy Begbie A sermon preached at the Ordination and Consecration of The Reverend Canon Dr Christopher Cocksworth to be Bishop of Coventry, and The Venerable Dr David Thomson to be Bishop of Huntingdon Southwark Cathedral, London, 3 July 2008 John 20.24-29 Not so long ago on prime-time TV, Sir Alan Sugarhad … Continue Reading

Fulcrum Briefing Paper on GAFCON for Parochial Church Councils

Fulcrum Briefing Paper on GAFCON for Parochial Church Councils against the resolution suggested on the Anglican Mainstream site: ‘We stand in solidarity with the Jerusalem Declaration and Statement on the Global Anglican Future’ What is GAFCON? The ‘Global Anglican Future Conference’ was held at the end of June 2008 in Jerusalem and attended by over … Continue Reading

Developing Evangelical Women as Leaders: CPAS and AWESOME

Developing Evangelical Women as Leaders: CPAS and AWESOME by Elisabeth Goddard Rosie Ward is Leadership Development Advisor at the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS). CPAS had noticed that there were relatively few women applying for the Arrow Leadership Programme developed and spearheaded by James Laurence and which Rosie now co-leads. Their department also saw that … Continue Reading

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Letter to the Church of England Newspaper, 28th September 2007

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Letter to the Church of England Newspaper 28 September 2007 from Dr Eeva John, the Revd Geoff Maughan, and the Revd Dr David Wenham republished with permission Recent revelations concerning the removal of Dr Elaine Storkey and of the Revd Dr Andrew Goddard and the Revd Lis Goddard from their posts at … Continue Reading