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TAP. Good for what ails ya. |
By SUE CARELESS
On the shores of the Indian Ocean leaders of the Anglican Communion have taken a “tough love” approach to The Episcopal Church--and all those who would play fast and loose with established Anglican teaching. The American church has been given seven months to change its ways or face expulsion from the Anglican Communion. Photo: ACNS Rosenthal See also: March Editorial: Communiqué offers clarity & one last chance for TEC. |
March 2007 Vol. 3. No. 3
Christ in the wilderness by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy 1873 Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow.
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In Scripture, the wilderness is pictured both a place of danger and a place of promise. Away from people, from social conventions, and away from the distractions of work and play, the conflict between good and evil becomes more open and apparent.
Photo: Sue Careless
By KAREN STILLER The second in our series featuring ordinary churches, full of struggles and victories: St. Thomas' Church, St. John's, Newfoundland, known as "The Old Garrison Church."
Communiqué offers clarity - and one last chance for TEC In light of this recent meeting we should rejoice that our fellowship still has potential to survive intact and pray that God the Holy Spirit whose constant work is to make us holy, might use these next seven months to return unity to the Church.
Alan Burns is chairman of the board for African Enterprise Canada, a pan-African, non-denominational mission organization founded by South African evangelist Michael Cassidy. They now attend St. John's Shaughnessy. Hugh Egerton talked with Mr. Burns in Vancouver.
Reviewed by STEPHEN SHARMAN In the Company of Christ: A Pilgrimage Through Holy Week by Benedicta Ward
In this highly recommended Lenten
devotional, Sister Benedicta
speaks of simple human actions such as walking, kneeling, washing
and breathing and tells us how these actions place us in the company
of Christ and each other.
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Amidst bloggers and camellias, some of the most important contemporary theologues from around the Anglican world gathered in Charleston SC for the 2nd annual Mere Anglicanism conference.
Stephen Noll: A Blueprint for the future of the Anglican world Observations and recommendations regarding church governance at a global level as presented to the 2006 Mere Anglicanism conference.
Victor Shepherd: The Villany was over In February of 1807, the Abolition movement had finally seen its great day arrive: the slave trade was abolished in the British Empire. No one was a more important supporter for abolition, than the great William Wilberforce.
Gavin Dunbar: The Trinity: More than just divine economics The theological Trinity refers to God as he is in himself, the economic Trinity to God as he acts towards us. These fine distinctions can have immense consequences.
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Primates' meeting: Tough love in Tanzania By SUE CARELESS The American church has been given seven months to change its ways or face expulsion from the Anglican Communion.
Photo: Sue Careless
By GUNDRUN SCHULTZ Indianapolis Colts’ coach used post-game interview to give an impassioned witness to his Christian faith and that of his fellowcoach for the opposing Chicago Bears.
(STAFF) Over 45 congregations have left the Episcopal Church since 2003, when a practicing homosexual was elected as the bishop of New Hampshire.
• Christian schools in India refuse Hindu practice • Vatican: death penalty "difficult to justify today" • No exemption for gay adoption in UK.
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The hospital is a great mission field but the chaplaincy finds itself beset with new challenges: smaller church and hospital budgets, greater patient caseloads and some constraints in spreading the “message” in a religiously diverse culture.
(STAFF) The Archbishop of Canterbury is to visit Wycliffe and Trinity Colleges, and to meet with the House of Bishops in April.
Small Rural Churches Thrive in NB By KATHERINE TAPLEY-MILTON What makes small New Brunswick churches like expand instead of merge with larger neighbouring churches?
'Stephen' minister to chronic care patient By ERINN OXFORD Stephen Ministry helps people experiencing a crisis such as bereavement, miscarriage, unemployment, or a spiritual crisis but also people with long-term care needs.
Saskatchewan marriage commissioner challenged Voice of the Martyrs A marriage commissioner in Regina Sask. is before a human rights tribunal for refusing to perform the marriage of a homosexual couple.
• Jesus songs takes Grammys • Telus rejects porn • Lord's Prayer opposed
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Some TAP contributors. Click their faces - know their thoughts.
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By GAVIN DUNBARWhy do some Anglicans impose ashes on their heads on Ash Wednesday? The custom of imposing ashes, which developed in the western church in the Middle Ages, was abandoned by the English reformers of the 16th century, but since then has been revived and widely practiced by many (though not all) Anglicans. Ashes are a sign of mourning, and of repentance for sin (Jonah 3.6; Job 42.6). On the first day of the Lenten fast, Ash Wednesday, they are imposed on the foreheads of the faithful with the words “Remember, O man, that dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (cf Genesis 3.19). In those words Christians acknowledge their solidarity with Adam in his sin and consequent death, and their need of the forgiveness of their sins, and the regeneration and renewal of their natures, by God’s grace in Christ. The Gospel lesson for Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6.16-21) warns against the use of such ceremonies for external display, and urges upon us a deep inward conversion of the soul.
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Atlantic Theological Conference 2007
Justification and Sanctification
Fredericton New Brunswick Christ Church Cathedral
May 29 to June 1
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THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an-hungered. Matthew 4:1-2
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