We published links to some of the Church Times detailed reports on this month’s General Synod last week. The remainder are now generally available.
UNIQUENESS OF CHRIST: Bishops asked for help in pressing Christian claims
DRAINAGE BILLS: Water charges are taxation, Synod told
YOUTH LITURGY: Request for teenage eucharistic prayers rejected
ANGLICAN COVENANT: Wide-ranging opinions on the St Andrew’s Draft
ASYLUM: Let asylum-seekers work, urges Synod
INTERFAITH WITNESS: Update given on bridge-building effort
RETREAT HOUSES: Fears for diocesan quiet places
CHURCH FEES: ‘Brown envelopes’ debated
FINANCIAL CRISIS: Members have an economics seminar
CHURCH’S VOICE: Faith is ‘not a private matter’
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: ‘The white van that slows down in my parish in the middle of the day . . .’
CRISIS RESPONSE: ‘We have been stealing from the next generation’
Posted by Peter Owen on Friday, 27 February 2009 at 9:15am GMT | TrackBackMrs Sarah Finch stated at Synod, referring to TEC...
How has this come about? For more than 30 years a gradual drift away from the authority of Scripture has meant a gradual change in Anglican faith and practice in North America. So gradual, so slow, that unless you had your wits about you, you would not realise the enormous distance that has been covered in those years – and the result? A very different version of Christianity in which the uniqueness of Christ we were talking about yesterday is doubted, if not actually contradicted, and Scriptural teaching in matters of human sexuality is set aside.
She seems to have forgotten divorce and re-marriage and the fact that the ACNA are as liberal as her own Cof E and TEC!
Posted by: Robert Ian Williams on Sunday, 1 March 2009 at 7:20am GMTRobert, can you tell us what is the substantive difference between divorce and annulment - except that some of us know the financial cost of the latter process - they both speak of separation.
Posted by: Father Ron Smith on Friday, 6 March 2009 at 9:59am GMT