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EDIBLE
THOUGHTS &
INTO THE WORD:
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 Ron
Ferris: What Shall I do with Jesus?
This was a question faced by Pilate. It is a question that is faced
by each of us daily. The Gospel accounts are a masterpiece of how
people react to Jesus. The story grips us because we are in the
story.
 Philip
Turner: Is our theology unworkable?
A reflection on the basic problem inherent in contemporary Anglican
thinking: the great divide between what we say we believe, and what
we really believe.
 Kendall
Harmon: Augustine or Rousseau?
Are human beings born good or born with a volcanic anti-God allergy
in their hearts? Answering this theological question is one of the
great challenges for Christians as we stand on the brink of a new
millennium.
 Andrew Atagotaaluk:
Faith: Confidence builder for a journey to the unknown
One of the wonderful and amazing gifts that God has given us is
faith for the unknown journeys in our lives.
 Lars
F. Nowen: Finding Prudence beside the Narrow Road
Josef Pieper (1904-1997)
was one of the most popular Christian philosophers of the 20th
century. His insights into the virtue of
prudence are timely medicine for the Anglican world.
Michael L.
Carreker: God.
There have been
two words traditionally used to describe the attributes of God. They
are transcendence and immanence.
 George Sumner: In praise of common sense: A
reflection on St. Michael's Report.
It made perfect
sense to hand the question of same-sex blessings over to theologians
-- we all knew in our hearts that it was doctrine all along.
ON THE FRONTLINE:
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Hudson Bay, SK to Lima, Peru
STAFF
Leaving behind snow and cold, three
Anglicans from St. Patrick´s Church, Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan,
walked out into the heavy heat and oppressive humidity of a Peruvian
summer evening.
APRIL
EDITORIAL TAP:
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Making
official doctrine our working
theology
 It’s time we stop ‘officially’ pointing
to the deep ocean of historic Christianity
- and actually dive in and start swimming.
TAP
INTERVIEW:
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Wendy & Robert Goetze
By SUE CARELESS
While the
average Canadian family has been downsizing over the past few years,
the Goetze family are raising seven children -- three biological and
four adopted -- and loving it.
BOOKREVIEW:
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 Reason’s victory is Christianity’s
gain
Reviewed by GEORGE SUMNER
Rodney Stark’s The Victory of
Reason summarizes his argu-
ment at its conclusion that “The
modern world arose only in Christian societies. Not in Islam. Not in
Asia.” As such it makes feisty and readable jabs at
opponents with academic hostility to Christianity or liberationist
denigration of capitalism.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
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Anglicans
condemn Guantanamo
By SHARON
DEWEY HETKE
Detention centre in Cuba comes under
fire from leading Anglican prelates, called a ‘blight on the
conscience of America.’
Photo: Beatrix
Hoyer
Translating the Bible for fewer than 2000
readers
By SUE CARELESS
Anglican missionary says: “How can I
say to a person, ‘You’ve got to
learn my language first before I explain to you how God loves you.’”
Canterbury tells leaders to ‘deliver’ now on
aid to Sudan
By
J M ROSENTHAL
Darfur is a ‘self-destructive tragedy’
and ‘a running sore.”
Seminary offers
‘DaVinci Code 101’
 (The
Lutheran)
Lecturers from various denomina-
tional colleges join forces to offer
a course debunking Dan Brown’s popular novel (and soon to be
released blockbuster movie.)
Growing despair
for mediating role of Panel of Reference
Hopes that
the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Panel of Reference can find a way
through the fractious dispute in Communion are quickly dwindling.
Second Episcopal
diocese could spark Communion crisis
By JIM
BROWN
If one of two "homosexual" priest
candidates is elected bishop of the Diocese of California, the
fallout could rival the controversy over the ordination of Bishop
Gene Robinson.
Bishop of Rome
puts fertile mind to elusive ‘eros’
By SABITRI GHOSH
Benedict XVI sets out to bring clarity
to the idea of love in the modern world. Eros, although reduced to a
commodity in a consumer society, actually has its roots in God.
CANADIAN NEWS:
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Resurrection
reboots
By SUE CARELESS
Church of the Resurrection in Toronto
is a growing church. It wasn’t always. TAP looks into how
things are going six years after what parishioners call “the
Reboot.”
Anglican Network
in Canada adds churches
By SUE CARELESS
Until recently, only individuals were joining the Anglican Network
in Canada. Now six churches across the country have joined and four
others in New Westminster are prepared to take that step.
‘Eros of Liturgy’
to be subject of 1st annual Cranmer
 Conference
The Rev.
Dr. Gary Thorne, Member of Primate’s Theological Commission is to speak
on the place of Desire in Anglican worship.
Anglicans changing the North
By SHARON
DEWEY HETKE
Despite
severe cuts to their grants from the National Church, dioceses in
Canada’s North are holding on to the Faith, and pressing on in hope.
Photo:
Diocese of Saskatchewan
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LET this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it
not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the death
of the cross.
Philippians 2:5-8
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