Beating the Big-Box Church
Anglicans taking shots at Big-Box Churches are like three-year-olds learning to garden: Mine gets such enjoyment from popping the heads off of weeds that pulling out the roots becomes a missed opportunity for more fun.
The Hollow Call for Further Discernment
Robert MacSwain’s call for more “thought” and “wrestling” on issues of sexuality rings hollow.
Making a Bad Call Worse
Lambeth 1998’s Resolution I.10 was a mistake, one that did not resolve but rather preempted the Communion-wide discernment process on same-sex relationships.
Cleaning Up the Playing Field: Six Resolutions for Lambeth
The Lambeth Conference cannot afford to decide nothing. By the same token, in its limited capacity, it must decide as little as possible for the time being.
Troubling Symbolism in Toronto
Is the Anglican Church of Canada no longer in discernment about same-sex marriage?
Compromises and Clarifications: A Letter to Stephen Noll
In the spirit of Paul’s exhortation to “speak the truth in love,” I offer this response, to correct several inaccuracies, and to clarify a point.
Against Anglican Myopia: GAFCON, Canterbury, and Lambeth
Anglicanism is good, but it is not ultimate, only provisional. Only Jesus Christ is ultimate, and one day, even if only on the Last Day, all denominational identities will give way to the creedal and confessed one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.
What Is ‘Impaired Communion’?
A meaningful distinction has opened between congregations with different teachings and practices on Christian marriage, and concomitantly between dioceses and bishops.