Anglican Roots : 1784 Samuel Seabury consecrated first American bishop
[Previous in series] [Next in series]So far, the acute-eyed among you will have noted, that in this series about Anglican Roots, as we prepare for the Lambeth Conference of the world-wide Anglican...
View ArticleLC08 : The Bishops are coming! The Bishops are coming!
[Next in series]Those of you who have followed the link (to the left) to the church where I am allowed more than three minutes, will have discovered that my parish incorporates the campus of the...
View ArticleLC08 : The Bishops have come!
[Previous in series] [Next in series]Well they’ve only gone and done it. The pile of bishops arrived today, finding themselves, bewildered, in the University of Kent’s equivalent to Heathrow Terminal...
View ArticleKill George gets episcopal recognition
If You Meet George Herbert on the Road, Kill Him: Radically Re-thinking Priestly Ministry has been out for a month now, and it is beginning to get episcopal recognition. The Bishop of Grimsby, David ,...
View ArticleRefusing to see what’s really at stake
Today the Pope will issue a pastoral letter on the seemingly never-ending sex-abuse scandals in the Catholic church in Ireland. As part of his preparation in writing the letter, last month the Pope...
View ArticleBishop Charles Gore on the episcopate
Charles Gore, (1853–1932), bishop of Worcester, first bishop of Birmingham, bishop of Oxford, on the episcopate: The whole atmosphere of the episcopate is manipulation of details and avoidance of big...
View ArticleGeneral Failure: in the Army, in Business, in the Church?
Last month’s issue of The Atlantic had a fascinating and disturbing article which examined the gulf between American veneration of the military and the general and pervading incompetence of its general...
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