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TAP. Learning lessons from history: new doesn’t always mean better.
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We are a group of academic theologians serving in parishes or theological institutions who are committed to the welfare of the Anglican Church of Canada, and we are writing to you out of grave concern for the integrity of our Christian community...(read full letter)
Now let the heavens be joyful, Let earth her song begin: For Christ the Lord is risen, Our joy that hath no end. Saint John of Damascus |
April 2007 Vol. 3. No. 4
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He saw, and believed. A grand understatement. No trumpets are needed, no whole host of heaven, a still small voice, the light coming on, the first candle lit in the first heart.
By RHODA KATSAK From being a child in the community of Igloolik to being visiting preacher: the holy adventurers of a missioner in Canada’s north.
CoGS disregards consensus of theologians & will of bishops Well, the waiting is over: if Council of General Synod has their way, the blessing of same-sex unions will be approved and the St. Michael's Report will have no role in determining the debate at GS2007.
Professor McGrath, co-author of The Dawkins Delusion, who became a research biochemist at Oxford and then an ordained priest in the Church of England, tells Judith Cole of the Belfast Telegraph how he found faith in God and why it is atheism itself which is deluded.
Reviewed by ALEX NEWMAN
The Walk, a film by
Murray Watts and Norman Stone,
provides a great opportunity for
churches and other groups to discuss bringing faith out of the
private sphere and into the public, and for discerning how to
nurture the next generation of Christian leaders and social
reformers.
Two organists
&
one music devotee recommend their favourite Easter CDs.
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Philip Davis: The Lost Tomb De-bunked The Lost Tomb of Jesus reached millions of viewers around the world with yet another load of ahistorical bunk. We wanted to bring our few thousand readers a little dose of sober academic de-bunking.
Bishop Ingham has called for a better theology of sex. Unfortunately, in spite of what he promises, Bishop Ingham wants no Christian theology or thinking at all, but only a culture-bound and thoughtless secularity.
Is Ingham's "better theology" just chronological snobbery? Paul was countercultural in a Gentile environment, and so must we be today. The reason why we must be so is because, in fact, the Lord and his apostles have bequeathed to us a robust and mysterious doctrine of human sexuality!
Dawn McDonald: Christ still changes lives It is time to do some really biblically sound and wholesome teaching on human sexuality.
Stephen Noll: A Blueprint for the future of the Anglican world Observations and recommendations on global church governance as presented to the 2006 Mere Anglicanism conference.
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Report of Roman Catholic & Anglican unity 'misleading' By SUE CARELESS Media accused of exaggerating implications of dialogue between Rome and Anglican Communion.
By TERRY MATTINGLY 18th Century parliamentarian has lessons to teach modern political leaders.
By MATT KENNEDY The Executive Council recently met to discuss the ultimatum from the Primates gathering in Tanzania.
United Voice: 'Love your daughters' By SAMANTHA SINGSON Despite calls for states to eliminate prenatal sex selection and female infanticide, many nations continue the trend.
• English bishops defeated • Attacks in India • UK: Religious schools and morals
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Let the children come unto me By SUE CARELESS Several clergy and lay leaders across the country are asked for their advice about delivering a Children's Talk.
Photo: Sue Careless
Council of General Synod met March 8-11. To follow some of the CoGS deliberations we have included some excerpts from the official "Highlights".
• Gypsy family deported • BCP in Afganistan • Mennonite wins top prize
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Some TAP contributors. Click their faces - know their thoughts.
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By GAVIN DUNBARHow important is the Resurrection to Christian theology? The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. It witnesses to the power of God, it foreshadows the resurrection that all Christians will experience one day and it is the visible proof that God the Father accepted the sacrifice of his Son as satisfying our debt of sin and by doing so defeating death once and for all. According to Paul, if Christ has not been raised from the dead then all of what we do as the Church is in vain. If you take away the literal account of the resurrection, the rest of the Christian faith unravels. Without a resurrection, Jesus’ prophesying about the resurrection is false and nothing else that he taught or said can be trusted. Similarly, the apostles’ witness to the resurrection would also be false and nothing they wrote could be trusted. Any religion based upon Jesus of Nazareth or the apostolic witness would be false and could not be used as the basis for any morality or spirituality. Finally we could have no hope for the forgiveness of our sins or our own resurrection and according to Paul, we should be pitied above all men.
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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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IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3
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