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The Great Collapse
One of the challenges we are all living with is the reality that many churches will close in the next decade. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but it is a reality that is upon us. Every Diocese in Australia has a cohort of churches with very small numbers and mainly elderly parishioners. […]
From Anglo-Catholicism to Evangelicalism
Jack Lindsay’s recent article describing the joy and satisfaction he found in Anglo-Catholicism after a start in Anglican Evangelicalism led me to reflect on my own journey – discovering Anglican Evangelicalism after a High Church upbringing. Firstly, I am not confident to draw the fuzzy but existent line between High Church and Anglo-Catholic. Nevertheless, there […]
CULTURE CLUB
This is a paper I presented recently at a discussion/mentor group for a small group of younger clergy and youth workers new in ministry, called “Culture Club” “How should the Church respond to rapid and major social and cultural change?“ I have just read and reviewed three books on the history of the Australian Church […]
Training Evangelical Anglican Leaders in the Developing World – Tim Swan
An extract from Essentials, Summer 2020 By Tim Swan, CEO, the Archbishop of Sydneyâs Anglican Aid Right now, a terrifying number of pastors and teachers around the world are inadvertently leading their people astray because they lack solid biblical understanding, and are being “blown here and there by every wind of teaching.” (Eph 4:14). At […]

Guarding the Deposit - Apostolic Truth for an Apostolic Church

Details: Written by: Chris Appleby; Created: 18 December 2016

The followingarticle was recently published on the website of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC)

Guarding the deposit: Apostolic Truth for an Apostolic Church

Introduction

To bless or not to bless? That is the question. Can a church pray for and invoke the blessing of God on those wanting to be in a committed relationship which will involve same-sex sexual practice?

A Comment from Canada Relevant to Australia

Details: Written by: Chris Appleby; Created: 31 May 2016

Prof John Stackhouse has made some interesting comments from Canada that we might find relevant here, leaving out the particular Canadian political commentary:

The Conservative Party Moves On–and So Should Everyone Else

The Conservative Party of Canada just voted to remove the traditional definition of marriage (one man + one woman) from its platform and replace it with…nothing in particular.

Supporters of this change were quoted over and over as saying the same things: The legality of same-sex marriage in Canada was decided a decade ago and the party needs to recognize that fact, move on, and embrace a wider constituency.

Regardless of one’s opinion about same-sex marriage, at least three troubling issues emerge from this easy assurance.

Anglican Future Conference 2015 Video

Details: Written by: Chris Appleby; Created: 18 August 2015

EFAC and FCA held a joint National Anglican Future Conference in Melbourne in March 2015.

Video from a number of the sessions can be found here.

English Synod Approves Ordination of Women Bishops

Details: Written by: Chris Appleby; Created: 19 November 2014

[CofE] The General Synod of the Church of England has enacted the measure enabling women to be ordained as Bishops in the Church of England.

The formal enactment of the legislation – Amending Canon 33 - followed the vote on final approval by the Synod at its meeting in July of this year. Since that time the legislation has been approved in Parliament and received Royal Assent.

Anglicanism keeps muddling on — thank God

Details: Written by: Theo Hobson; Created: 24 October 2014

A new survey of UK Anglican clergy has been published.

Its findings are reassuringly unsurprising. For example, almost one-third of the clergy identify as evangelical; exactly one-third as Catholic; and just over one-third as something in the middle. In a different question, a quarter identify as conservative. Just over half want to keep the established Church in its current form; the rest want some sort of reform. Most call for the Anglican Communion to be more accepting of diversity, rather than seek stricter uniformity. Same in relation to the national Church. Sensible middle-way muddling-through remains the dominant approach: half the clergy think that Christians are discriminated against in some way by our secular society; half oppose same-sex marriage. (39 per cent are in favour of it, which I suppose is a strong body of dissent from Church teaching, but hardly surprising.)

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