A Guest Editorial, by Andrew Carey

Just when it seemed that the Anglican Communion was being bored out of existence something interesting happens.

President Bishop Mouneer Anis of Jerusalem and the Middle East resigned from the increasingly important ‘Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion’ expressing frustration that his presence had “no value whatsoever.” In his letter of resignation he explains that the Committee had no will to carry through the Windsor Proposals, maintaining the status quo rather than acting upon the logic and trajectory of the Windsor proposals.

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Of all the great and wonderful things recorded in the gospels, most of them are not recorded in all four gospels, as you may well know.  Lots of things appear in more than one, like the birth of our Lord, which is recorded in Matthew and Luke, and the baptism of the Lord, which is told by Matthew, Mark and Luke.  And although it is strongly hinted at by St John, it’s not actually recorded there.  In that gospel, John the Evangelist records the words of John the Baptist, who said, “I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him” (1.32) which, we know from the other three gospels, happened at our Lord’s baptism, though it’s not explicitly stated there.  But out of all the many events that we read about in the gospels, only two appear in all four.  They are our Lord’s feeding of the 5,000 and his Passion and Resurrection.  And these two are very intimately bound together.

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St. Paul talks about a ‘spiritual body’ (1 Cor. 15:44) yet St. Peter describes how Jesus ‘preached to the spirits in prison’ between his death on Good Friday and his resurrection that first Easter (1 Peter 3:18-20). Is Peter talking about spirits without bodies?

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A sermon on Palm Sunday, delivered by Rowan Williams at the Cathedral Church of St George the Martyr in Jerusalem, in 2003.

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Servant of the persecuted church

(Staff)  A Canadian renowned for serving the persecuted church worldwide has died after a seven-year struggle with cancer. Glenn Penner of The Voice of the Martyrs Canada died on Jan. 26. He was only 48.

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