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April 2008 Vol. 4. No.4
The Resurrection, 1510 Ambrogio di Stephano Bourgognone National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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Photo: Sue Careless
The Resurrection is decisive proof that life is about a whole lot more than we can put under a microscope or put in the bank. And best of all, Christ has reached out to give us a kind of life we never even dreamed of. The wood of the Cross has burst into bloom.
Photo: Donna Bilyk/ATS Lying in his cell, Eddy tried to decide if Christian doctrine was true. One night, he shouted, “Not my will, but thy will be done.” “To my surprise, absolute calm came over me and for the first night in several weeks I slept in absolute calm,” says Eddy. As Eddy tried to understand this, Bp Embling pronounced his verdict: “You are ready.” He baptized and confirmed Eddy that week.
Is it really a problem of 'just a few parishes'? It is time for our leadership to stop the encyclical madness of the last year, and confront fairly and honestly the crisis at hand.
Photo: Sue Careless A graduate student in engineering at the University of Toronto poses some questions to Dr. Ranall Ingalls, an Anglican theologian who teaches philosophy at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. They have agreed to share their email exchange with TAP readers.
a life of prayer left impressions on many Reviewed by S.C. SHARMON In Gilliam Crow's recent biography, "This Holy Man": Impressions of Metropolitan Anthony, we see the whole man--both the saint who is a channel of God’s love and the sinner who is in need of penitence and forgiveness. The man who often did not keep his appointments is also the man who found unending time for people who needed him. She tells the story of his life with a great and evident affection for him tempered by a deep knowledge of the man as he actually was. Movienews»
By TONY GOSGNACH
Metanoia Films is dedicated to creating movies that can inspire and uplift people and uphold human dignity, according to the producer, Severino. Bella “has the potential to touch many hearts and to transform, if not save, many lives,” said Severino. He claims at least 13 women have so far opted to cancel scheduled abortion appointments after seeing the film.
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April 2008
March 2008
February 2008 Joe Walker: Replacing ourselves? Raymond deSouza: Hope which saves Sue Careless: What's up with that Catechism?
January 2008 James I. Packer: Anglicans adrift Ron Csillag: Paul Ken Imai, a TAP Tribute R.I.P. Sue Careless: Art after the Incarnation
December 2007 Catherine Edward: What Child is This? Some Books the West Coast Recommends
November 2007 David Reed: CULTS: Dangerous Religion or Maligned Minority? Mouneer Anis: An Ambiguity of Non-Compliance Michael Hawkins: Deadly Sorrow: Accidie the sin we don't like to talk about
Autumn 2007 Margaret Avison (1918-2007): Leading Questions, a poem Raymond deSouza: The Dark Night of the Soul
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LAMBETH 2008 Staff A recent letter from 21 English evangelical bishops to orthodox Anglican bishops around the world urging them to attend Lambeth has met with a cold reception.
Rowan Williams says "It will convey the shock and freshness of the Bible in a unique way", and the publishing world is abuzz.
AFRICA Photo: Diocese of Renk
Africa has two new Anglican leaders: Daniel Deng Bul in the Sudan and Valentino Mokiwa in Tanzania.
AUSTRALIA Photo: R Williams WPL
By JOSEPH SMITH It was a historic moment when Jonathan Lilley was ordained deacon at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney on Feb. 2, the first aboriginal deacon in Sydney diocese.
GAFCON UPDATE Photo: TEC
By GEORGE CONGER The Global South Primates have released an Anglican Catechism in Outline to the Communion for study and feedback by April 30. Photo: Sue Careless • Peace deal in Kenya • Bishop: No requiem for Mafia • Matthews appointed to WCG • China: Christians to labour camp |
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YOUTH MINISTRY
By SUE CARELESS Every Friday lunch hour during the school year over a hundred students from the local collegiate drop inot the gym at St. Hilda's in Oakville for lunch and games.
By DEBRA FIEGUTH Church communities have lost their welcoming spirit. Parish dinners have become fundraisers instead of just a time to reach out to each other and to the neighbourhood. But there are glimmers of hope.
CANADIAN DIVISIONS
Anglican realignment begins in BC, parishes leave ACC By SUE CARELESS The largest Chinese Anglican congregation in Canada has voted unanimously to leave the ACC and come under the spiritual care of Archbishop Venables of the Southern Cone. Photo: Sue Careless
By SUE CARELESS An Ontario Provincial Court has given temporary rights of property to parish against diocese.
Two parishes ask permission to perform same-sex blessings Staff Two more parishes in the Diocese of new Westminster are requesting permission to perform same-sex blessings. Currently Bishop Michael Ingham allows such blessings in eight parishes in the Vancouver-based diocese.
• Age of consent raised • New bishops for Edmonton and possibly NZ
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Some TAP contributors. Click their faces - know their thoughts.
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By GAVIN DUNBARI’ve heard that in Anglicanism people and priests can leave but the church keeps the buildings. What is the historical basis for this? That is a good and timely question. Historically there is no basis for this claim. In fact, looking at the origin of the Church of England, it would seem that the buildings go with the people. At the glorious English Reformation, the Church in England--having determined to break with the Roman Catholic Church--simply took their buildings, including cathedrals, with them. It would behove today’s church leaders to keep quiet about the new line as Rome might ask for all her churches back.
Schism. From the Greek σχίσμα, skhísma (from σχίζω, skhízō, "to tear, to split") means a division or a split. Schism does not broadly refer to all divisions within the church, but generally where the division is absent of doctrinal disagreement. The First Council of Nicea, for instance, declared the Arians and other non-Trinitarians to be heretical and excluded them from the church. The same council determined that the division between Peter of Alexandria and Meletius of Lycopolis was a matter of Schism in that there was no doctrinal grounds for the dispute. In Canto XXVIII of the Inferno Dante pictures the schismatics punished in a most gruesome way by constantly tearing open and resealing their wounds. Thus the physical punishment signifies the theological sin. |
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ALMIGHTY Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may alway serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. BCP Collect for the Octave Day of Easter
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Allegory of Old & New
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